Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that well yeah I mean in a sense er that 's right because if you think about it , in eighteen in eighteen fifteen er the great powers stayed in existence mainly because of a fear of a of of fear of France . |
| 2 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 3 | yes , and I live in a pensioner 's house , furthest away from the shopping centre and I 've got to take a taxi of one pound forty a day to shop |
| 4 | I do n't act like a man but I play in a man 's world . |
| 5 | oh I can assure you I work , I work in a women 's unit and I can assure you its still frowned on by lots of people . |
| 6 | She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her . |
| 7 | The Kylie and Jason ‘ Are they or are n't they in love ? ’ riddle reached its most bewildering moment in September 1988 when she claimed in a woman 's magazine that … |
| 8 | But if you start putting down investment in new plant and equipment when interest is at 8% , and you find in a year 's time that you 're paying 15% — and so are your customers , and they 're not buying — it screws the numbers up . |
| 9 | Although we have some beautiful and rare things like a Queen Anne doll and the earliest-known example of a jigsaw puzzle , the things I love best are the most ordinary , fragile toys — the sort of things you find in a schoolboy 's pocket . |
| 10 | Next Sunday we met in a Deacon 's house . |
| 11 | I dream that we live in a mare 's field . |
| 12 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 13 | The millionaire drummer has slapped a no-sex ban on their relationship til they wed in a year 's time . |
| 14 | The details emerged during the inquest into the deaths of Moore and the men he killed in a Belfast Sinn Fein centre . |
| 15 | On leaving school , he worked in a chemist 's shop and he later qualified as an apothecary ( LSA ) in 1886 . |
| 16 | He sang in a child 's voice that was beginning to break , so that it was tuneless , the register awkward , the pitch uncertain . |
| 17 | He appeared in a children 's BBC Jackanory playhouse production of the Prattling Princess in which he played Prince Hugo . |
| 18 | A businessman commenting on an experience he had in a stockbroker 's office in London when " I saw a beam of light between me and my eyes " commented , Although I was n't a particularly religious person , I realised immediately that this must be the thing that people call God . |
| 19 | ‘ which carried obligatory lamps ’ can be proved by describing which obligatory lamps it carried in a witness 's statement . |
| 20 | Could I be before you answer that question , you did ask , did n't you , ask him to be hypothetical and say what would he say in a year 's time , and I think what |
| 21 | Even Hennessy was taken by surprise at the abrupt departure , and he stood in a moment 's confusion before turning and hurrying out . |
| 22 | However , Mr Darling maintained that the hospital had written to a number of public bodies — including Lothian Regional Council — asking them to advertise in a children 's book , the proceeds of which would go to the purchase of baby heaters . |