Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience . |
| 2 | The following example comes from the interview with Sally Jordan , a factory worker and a dustman 's wife ; she belongs in the first group of working-class women whose early positive or non-committal response turns into predominantly negative feeling : |
| 3 | She sits in a soft curve at her easel , gently swabbing away three centuries from a grumpy London sky . |
| 4 | The larger female is more heavily marked , this helps to make her better camouflaged on the ground nest she builds in the Arctic spring , immediately after the snow begins to melt . |
| 5 | The second letter is difficult to place since Leapor is responding to a gentleman whose comments on her work are relayed by someone else , or to whom she refers in the third person for reasons of politeness . |
| 6 | Unmarried , she lives in a former doctor 's surgery in Crook which doubles as the constituency office . |
| 7 | Mary Leapor also knows that she lives in a dirty world . |
| 8 | She felt nothing for me ; she has already forgotten me ; she lives in a drowsy round of smoking , going to the baths , painting her eyelids and drinking coffee . |
| 9 | ‘ She lives in a small alleyway just past The Magpie and Crown off Watling Street . ’ |
| 10 | Now she lives in a small flat in Ladbroke Grove , with a young woman she says is her niece . |
| 11 | She lives in a Victorian cottage in south London with her husband Roger and their baby daughter Hannah . |
| 12 | She lives in a remote village , ten kilometres from a paved road . |
| 13 | She lives in a terraced house in Lancashire with her mum and dad and her cat , Arthur . |
| 14 | She lives in a mock tudor mansion in Cheadle , Greater Manchester . |
| 15 | She lives in a top floor flat in Oxford and has had several accidents on the stairs leaving her very unsure about going out on her own . |
| 16 | JUDY MOWATT , one third of Marley 's backing singers , The I-Threes , is not rich , asking a hundred US dollars for an interview , but she lives in the better part of Kingston . |
| 17 | ‘ It could n't possibly have been Eddie who impersonated Delia and anyway there 'd have been no point when she lives in the same house as Angy . ’ |
| 18 | He or she lives in an impersonal world , out of touch with other people . |
| 19 | She lives in an old house . |
| 20 | She 's smiling softly as she stands in the dim glow , and she asks , ‘ Do you want to go to bed ? ’ |
| 21 | She lies in an open corner of the churchyard , where she can breathe the air from the moors . |
| 22 | On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so . |
| 23 | They appeal organisers want to know where in Germany she 's been taken and whether or not she 'll get the operation she needs in a German hospital . |
| 24 | [ She exits in a dignified manner . ] |
| 25 | ‘ I have to go again , ’ she says in a whiny voice . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm exhausted , ’ she says in a low voice , her accent seriously French . |
| 27 | She says in the longer term there are substantial benefits from returning organic matter to the soil . |
| 28 | He realises they are fighting only to ‘ gild ’ Menelaus ' horns ; and is disgusted by Cressida 's easy morals when she arrives in the Greek camp , kissing anyone that offers : |
| 29 | The protagonist laughs at the letters at first and refuses to answer them , but eventually her curiosity is piqued and she engages in a prolonged correspondence with her admirer . |
| 30 | Before going into detail about specific crops , she engages in a lucid discussion of gardening principles : how to achieve soil fertility , what to do about weeds , pests and diseases , when to water . |