Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace . |
| 2 | This evening I visited Scouse 's latrine , the mosquitoes and all the flies were having a fieldday ; there were clouds of them hanging over the latrine in the still evening air . |
| 3 | Fred joined them and urged them to come to the cemetery in the funeral cars . |
| 4 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 5 | Caduta asked me to come to an address in Little Italy at two o'clock that afternoon . |
| 6 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |
| 7 | And according to the erm agreement which I made with the franchisee in June eighty nine erm his rent is also due for review er this August . |
| 8 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 9 | When I say humanism , I mean with no belief in anything except one 's existence from , I suppose , oneself . |
| 10 | I mean in the past in has always turned out that what people have thought to be elementary turns out never to be elementary . |
| 11 | I lived in a squat in Battersea . |
| 12 | ‘ Orficer , ’ she said , ‘ I sit on the bench in Cisister . |
| 13 | I moved to a school in Herefordshire when my father closed down Avisford and moved to mid Wales . |
| 14 | The next day the Rivers family returned to their separate places of work , and I moved to the cottage in Morton . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , for a couple of years , then I moved to the General in Leeds where I was on Orthopaedics . ’ |
| 16 | I moved off the dredger in nineteen thirty two and I was crane driving from nineteen thirty two till after the war . |
| 17 | It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all . |
| 18 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 19 | I apologise for the delay in response — we had to track down which university you were at ! |
| 20 | I apologise for the delay in replying , but I have only just got to the bottom of my ‘ in tray ’ after months of chasing deadlines ! |
| 21 | I apologise for the delay in replying to you . |
| 22 | I apologise for the delay in replying . |
| 23 | I apologise for the delay in replying to you . |
| 24 | I apologise for the delay in arriving . |
| 25 | The outcome , according to Levi-Strauss , is a generalized circularity analogous to that which I described for the relationship in our commercial system between an author and his book-buying reader . |
| 26 | Imagine my disappointment when I staggered down a hill in murky twilight after its purchase to find that not only had it been lying in the back seat of the car for the duration of my climb , but that it had failed to come up and get me when the daylight failed . |
| 27 | I pitch through the hedge in tow . |
| 28 | When it was shown , I booked into an hotel in Shrewsbury , not being able to receive it in my area , and watched it in the seclusion of a pleasant bedroom . |
| 29 | where I squinted through the gap in the serving hatch |
| 30 | Bending and brushing away overhanging thorn branches , I sidled through the water in vain hopes of seeing one of the otters that lived here , according to Mrs Knelle . |