Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] in the [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | She 's smiling softly as she stands in the dim glow , and she asks , ‘ Do you want to go to bed ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She pauses in the wrong places and puts emphasis on words which do not merit the stress , giving the effect of a halting delivery . |
| 10 | She says in the longer term there are substantial benefits from returning organic matter to the soil . |
| 11 | She says in the old days women used to look out for each other 's children . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | Then she gets in the back bedroom , we got a mirror at the back there what was took off one the dressing tables , and she sits and looks at herself in there and she keeps going like that |
| 14 | When she rises in the white garment she must be terribly dominant . |
| 15 | Karen Rake from the Maxwell club at Aylesbury will be chasing records in the pool at Sheffield this weekend as she competes in the British Championships … |
| 16 | She admits in the final analysis she finds it difficult to make sense of the ‘ gratuitous savagery ’ . |
| 17 | 4 As soon as s/he sits in the hot seat , this person must become the chosen character . |
| 18 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 19 | But now he 's retired I 've heard that , when he plays in the odd charity match , he has a go now . |
| 20 | show exactly the worth he discerns in the Trojan conflict . |
| 21 | It trades in the primal delight which the hills bring ; in their clean innocence and the wonderment they inspire . |
| 22 | yeah it goes in the dry weather does n't it straight away ? |
| 23 | It goes in the right direction in so far as it does aim to re to continue to reduction in migration , but it does n't go far enough . |
| 24 | Oh come on Christopher come and sometimes it in the right panel , that 's the right panel there and then it goes in the left hand and then it goes to the right hand and then it goes to the left then right , the left , the right , left , right , left , confusing , but it 's that hand to start with |
| 25 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 26 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 27 | Your own son needs to be encouraged to behave in a mature way , while your stepson has to be reassured that he belongs in the new family . |
| 28 | On the other hand , it may change financial reporting practice because of what it represents in the continuing controversies about professional self-regulation . |
| 29 | PHILLIP McCallen will make his first Irish road race appearance of the season outside the North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix when he rides in the Loughshinny Club 's meeting at Killalane near Skerries on Saturday and Sunday . |
| 30 | Ford has added a turbocharger to provide a better performance for the 2.5-litre diesel it offers in the spacious Granada ( as well as a 1.8 turbo diesel in the Sierra range ) . |