Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead . |
| 2 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |
| 3 | I suppose that simple precept from that old foreman stood me in good stead for thirty odd years , until now . ’ |
| 4 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 5 | Beattie 's outstanding record as a dedicated social worker stood him in good stead at the ‘ Diplock ’ tribunal and partly explained the presence of a total of twenty-four persons who came to testify on his behalf . |
| 6 | The other old nomes watched her in horrified silence . |
| 7 | It is quite usual to find large joints of roast beef and pork for slicing on the delicatessen counter , but two of the more interesting meats to reach us in recent years have been smoked turkey and pastrami . |
| 8 | Not only do we need to strengthen up the entire body to keep it in good working order but there are certain areas that need extra exercise to give the area more definition ; areas that accumulate unwanted flab . |
| 9 | During this period of voluntary ostracism from social contact with those around him , Mr Thesiger 's fondness for out-of-doors sports and predilection for the simple life stood him in good stead . |
| 10 | The superior numbers of the Imperial army stood them in good stead : within a few minutes , Dara 's forces had broken through the rebels ' artillery and put to flight the infantry . |
| 11 | Is the purpose of a single European currency and the central bank to assist us in improving living standards by providing a level playing field or are they steps towards some kind of federal Europe ? |
| 12 | His previous experience stood him in good stead . |
| 13 | Tamar found the side-saddle strange at first , but her previous experience stood her in good stead . |
| 14 | He condemned postwar curtailment of civil liberties , and support for parliamentary reform involved him in metropolitan politics , but he disappointed Whigs and Radicals alike . |
| 15 | The basic structure ( roof , walls , floors , loft , doors and windows ) needs constant attention to keep it in good repair ; and essential household services ( electrics , plumbing , heating and drains ) need regular servicing in the same way as your car . |
| 16 | Not , not , terribly sorry Mrs to stop you in full flow , but we have n't got th this money . |
| 17 | The hands that normally give the despatch box a confident caress gripped it in white-knuckled nervousness . |
| 18 | The duty is to provide the necessary plant and equipment and take reasonable care to maintain it in proper condition . |
| 19 | I really admire the way the structure of the holding company leaves you in effective control of SIMP through an apparently insignificant position in the marketing subsidiary . |
| 20 | ‘ Ay , it 's where an ignorance of good book-keeping stands you in good stead . ’ |
| 21 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 22 | He started accusing everyone from Sam Gristy to Jan Treffry himself of meddling with his fish barrels , and insisted on one of Sam 's barrels being opened as well ; but when it was found to be brim full Martha told him in plain terms that as far as she was concerned , he had lost the contest . |
| 23 | Loose eggs will hatch if vigorous aeration keeps them in constant motion . |
| 24 | As a result , any attempt to explicate the theme of the sequence is bound to run into peculiar difficulties , although there have been various attempts to interpret it in Christian , symbolist or political terms . |
| 25 | The law ensured the " autonomy " of the armed forces but expanded their existing responsibilities for sovereignty and national territorial integrity to involve them in civil defence and the restoration of internal order at the request of the head of the Senate . |
| 26 | The Red Cross discovered them in Israeli custody in January 1992 and informed their families . |
| 27 | An unspoken sympathy bound them in comfortable silence as they padded down the garden . |
| 28 | It takes a Masculine Courage to find pleasure in constructing Dungeons for Innocents in his Fancy , and a Female Patience to endure them in sober fact . ’ ’ |
| 29 | These older tankers require continuous maintenance to keep them in good , safe working order at sea . |
| 30 | experience of project managing the construction of a new store stood him in good stead for creating a corner of Cornwall in Stamford Street in just two days . |