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

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1 A coastguard spokesman said the other two ‘ undoubtedly survived because they were wearing lifejackets , which also made them easier to spot in the water . ’
2 What am I supposed to do in the meantime ? ’
3 The Minister may recall that it is almost a year since I first raised in the House the matter of the proposed incinerator in Renfrew .
4 V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school .
5 Two hundred dozen that was when I first started in the industry in the sort of la early sixties .
6 ‘ For your information , yes , Tim was very kind and helpful to me when I first started in the business .
7 Not only does it set you free to live in the present but you had better start enjoying it , because — at the age of 40 or 50 or whatever — this is it , the future has arrived !
8 ‘ Dana sent you this enclosed in a letter to me , but before you open it I want you to know that Dana means no more to me than a rather troublesome sister-in-law-to-be .
9 no cos why you all go in the sitting room with Allerton , they 've gone in the kitchen with Allerton she 'll laugh .
10 One of the odd features when you first arrive in the area is that there is no advance warning of what 's to come — nothing visible of the Grand Canyon until you are right on the edge .
11 Dorabella 's playfulness is similar to that of Natalia 's ward , Vera , when she first dances in A Month in the Country , .
12 The notion that the writing is meant to explain her work to others is supported by her use if the ‘ revolutionary ’ -to-evolutionary ’ tag which she first used in a letter to a friend ( in 1919 ) and then , quoting herself , she reemploys the phrase in her diary ( in 1920 , and again , in 1921 ) .
13 I hope you are feeling less harassed than when you last wrote in the spring .
14 Like this , rimmit , rimmit , rimmit , go on have a go at doing with me , rimmit , rimmit , come on , rimmit , rimmit , oh my god and then you 've got to leap into the pool , are you ready to leap in the pool like this , you 've got to rimmit , can you do that ?
15 She will be boosted by her 3,000 metres victory in Canada , even though her time of 8min 50.55sec was slower than her time in placing fifth when she last ran in the world indoors in Indianapolis in 1987 .
16 The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below .
17 We all gathered in an area where a bar had been arranged , the house party guests being the last to arrive .
18 Those that take up the service , and of course we all know in the school meals service that the take up figures are very low .
19 The French elaborated a lot of wonderful nonsense in the nineteenth century about the climate pauses of the British character , they said that because we all lived in the fog we were incapable of clear and distinct ideas , a sort of bogus science that you as a scientist would see through more quickly than people like me .
20 And suddenly the kitchen door — we all lived in the kitchen — burst open , and standing there was my father with the most effulgent smile on his face .
21 We all met in the foyer where we were soon joined by Evelyn Laye , ‘ Boo ’ to her intimate friends , who looked wonderful in a navy blue dress , and went round greeting everyone .
22 For our part , we all sat in a cellar and talked about other things ( I think ) .
23 After dinner we all sat in the lounge , the camp supplied wine and Jerry supplied Scotch so we had a few drinks and said our farewells for the night and then back to our cabins were we slept on good mattresses .
24 ‘ That was us when we all worked in the shop , afore the War . ’
25 What is important is that we all live in a society organised in a way which routinely excludes people who have impairments .
26 I mean we all live in a society where people wear clothes and we 'd probably feel a bit ashamed if we did n't have to wear any , but if you grew up in a society where nobody wears clothes , you would n't , would n't bother about it for one moment .
27 ‘ In case it 's escaped your notice , we all live in a consumer society .
28 Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no
29 We all fail in the end , Riven .
30 Alright , now we come to the erm , first resolution , erm , but before I invite Alan Morgan , to er , er , er , propose this resolution let me just say , it will of course be the last occasion , I 've never seen such a remarkable er , demonstration of the interest which we all have in the future of Alan .
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