Example sentences of "[pers pn] in [adj] [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read with amazement Sir Alexander Leith 's letter to you in this morning 's press . |
| 2 | It had left me in White Face 's power . |
| 3 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 4 | Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery ! |
| 5 | The capability of removing women 's eggs and placing them in another woman 's womb , has given rise to the question for the first time in human history who is the biological mother ? |
| 6 | Smith told them : ‘ If you play really well against what looks like a near full-strength side , some of you will face them in next week 's Test and others will go higher in the national rankings . ’ |
| 7 | Lowell had tried to form her in that woman 's image . |
| 8 | Lynch , who fell at the first fence on his only other Grand National ride in 1981 , had looked likely to miss the race after Auntie Dot , one of his regular mounts , had been promised to Mark Dwyer , who finished third on her in last year 's race . |
| 9 | Is it in that child 's interest for it to go home or is it in the child 's interest er for the responsibility to lie with the local authority or the High Court ? |
| 10 | ‘ He 's got young black America eating out of his hand , because every night he takes their culture , and shoves it in mainstream America 's face . |
| 11 | Put it in next door 's bin though , do n't want to upset your mother . ’ |
| 12 | This ‘ Gish ’ out-take is no earth-shattering pop classic , just a steely example of sweaty-fingered , control-freak intelligent-metal , and it still sounds eight to ten times superior to the Brit stuff that surrounds it in this week 's pile of singles . |