Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chukar-type partridges Alectoris are longer , more upright and slightly more pheasant-like than smaller Perdix , and readily distinguished where they overlap it in W and S Europe by black and white eyestripes , white chin and throat , broad black band extending from eye down neck to form breast-band , conspicuous black and white barring on flanks , and red bill and legs . |
| 2 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 3 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 4 | The flat seemed cold and empty when she let herself in several hours later , and discovering a message from Kelly on the answering-machine brought no respite from the depression which had settled over her like a heavy black cloud . |
| 5 | ‘ People should remember alcohol is dangerous whether you drink it in the pub or at the Christmas carol concert . ’ |
| 6 | He has worked hard on it , and perhaps he is at his most content when he has something in his game on which to work . |
| 7 | By the way , I 'm sorry if I dropped you in the soup just now . ’ |
| 8 | Obvious because it stares you in the face as you walk in to the corrie , and also because you can see that the icicle has n't quite formed despite rumours that it does . |
| 9 | She glanced down at her hand , wondering yet again why the memory of that day should be so insistent tonight , then her lovely face became expressionless as she wrapped herself in the familiar cloak of indifference . |
| 10 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 11 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 12 | Funnily enough a sing a double wardrobe which is four foot wide and eighteen inches deep if you split it in half , as the old ones could be , you end up with two pieces two feet and they actually can go up the stairs cos you can just get them underneath . |
| 13 | Practice partner Jack Nicklaus also had an ignominious start , and even Norman himself had contemplated whether he might sue the Royal & Ancient if he injured himself in the dune grass . |
| 14 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 15 | She says the birs are very good — as long as we keep them in families and feed all the young that 's all the parents mind about . |
| 16 | If your letter is not delivered on the first working day after your posted it — as long as you posted it in time to get there — then we automatically refund your fee . |
| 17 | When they are in their pyjamas , or dressing-gown if they wear nothing in bed , the electrodes are applied to their faces and heads . |
| 18 | Never happy unless she has something in her mouth , ’ he confided to me . |
| 19 | The other side of the coin is that it is very satisfying and rewarding because it stretches me in every possible way . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm only happy when I see you in the theatre , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Even an optimist like Alix found people depressing when they revealed themselves in this manner . |
| 22 | Everybody was impressed , it was a glorious day like this you know so the Clyde looks so beautiful when you see it in the , in , in a , in weather like this you know . |
| 23 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 24 | When he was imprisoned in 1768 for sexual sadism he managed to secure an early release by the devious means of getting his wife pregnant while she visited him in jail . |
| 25 | Animals become territorial because they get something in return for their effort — food , for instance . |
| 26 | Well you see you do that minibus want cleaning up , that blue one or was that clean before we put it in the shed ? |
| 27 | Some Western reports claimed that Iraqi troops had been told that they were invading Israel and were deeply distressed when they found themselves in another Arab state . |
| 28 | A person doing either of the above infringes the right whether he does it in relation of the whole or a substantial part of the topography . |
| 29 | Ettedgui , who had supported Hamnett by selling her first clothes in his shops , was upset when she abandoned him in favour of Bertelsen , an oil-rich entrepreneur who arrived in London offering designer deals and retail arrangements in 1986 . |
| 30 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |