Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I find in me A strange compulsion to direct all men E'en to the way they stand and walk or move .
2 I looked in my the other day and I thought I thought now I have n't got it now .
3 I see in it a big step towards the achievement of these goals knowing that still it 's a long way to go with obstacles on the road that we shall have to remove — and it is possible to remove them , ’ Rabin added .
4 Very quickly this initial impression vanished as she recognised in him a dazzling personality , a person who had only to enter a room and the pace of things altered .
5 What had she seen in him the other day that had been so disturbing ?
6 And me and me mam we singing in it the other night , just to use up the tape .
7 When the pope wrote to Anselm that ‘ we behold in you the venerable persona of St Augustine the Apostle of the English ’ this was more than a complimentary politeness .
8 However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought .
9 I think they sensed in me a possible convert to their beliefs , merely because I was curious , or perhaps they genuinely liked me — I do n't know .
10 They saw in it a narrative paradigm which offered the possibility of meaning in their individual experience to all men .
11 The many rules and regulations concerning licensing will only be touched on in this section ; they form in themselves a considerable volume of law .
12 In paragraphs two onwards , I give the names of the local governments staff commission , erm , what their statutory it is , and can I just point out at the bottom of the page , paragraph five , please remember that the staff commission is advisory and it has in itself no mandatory powers .
13 I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame .
14 He noticed in himself a definite tendency to swagger as he walked around the camp that morning and he had tried consciously to suppress it .
15 It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an " intellectual " , and a superior person generally . "
16 Now , adrift from home and more vulnerable than ever , he discovered in himself a remarkable gift for inspiring friendship , a gift which never left him .
17 Section 16(2) provides : [ t ] he cases in which a pecuniary advantage … is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where — ( b ) he is allowed to borrow by way of overdraft , or to take out any policy of insurance or annuity contract , or obtains an improvement of the terms on which he is allowed to do so ; or
18 It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin .
19 Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " …
20 In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him .
21 Although I 'm not especially interested in food , and would never drive more than ten miles for any culinary feast , the lunch was so perfect , so many times better than anything we ever get at home , that it induced in me an unlikely surge of ecstasy .
22 As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism .
23 These rhetorical features seem , however , to suffer from being at odds with the rest of the passage , as if James wants us to catch in them a certain false emotionalism in the tone of the speaker .
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