Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may do it by actually ‘ clobbering ’ somebody , but this would imply a rather drastic escalation of the conflict situation and happens too rarely for everyone in the aggro-leader role to prove themselves . |
| 2 | It was good enough for them in the old days , and it will be good enough for them again , especially with THE woman out of the way . |
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| 4 | On the other hand , what Alcuin has to say must be set beside the respect accorded Aelfwald 's memory at Hexham where the king was buried ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) , which shows that the community at Hexham thought highly of him in the twelfth century and probably earlier . |
| 5 | These are now part of planning history , but it is live history : the issues are still very much with us in the 1980s , and there is no guarantee that the current resolution of them will prove sufficiently resilient to withstand the unpredictable changes in the context within which they operate . |
| 6 | Having quoted the opening of Gormenghast in 1.4 as an example of an opaque style , we shall now return to another passage which occurs shortly after it in the same novel . |
| 7 | As sometimes happens with pianists of exceptional technical ability there can often be a sense in their playing that they are trying hard not to run away with themselves in the easy passages . |
| 8 | Erm I will take those notes away with me in the strictest confidence , go through them erm work out some recommendations , how you could hit the goals that you will go for at the end of the day . |
| 9 | They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ? |
| 10 | Although she was sitting only a foot or two away from him in the opposite corner of the seat and had frequently tried to smile at him , he felt inexplicably betrayed . |
| 11 | In whatever fashion the contrast is formulated ( we might say , for example , that the two revolutions — political and industrial — which had inspired the new political science began to move in different directions , towards greater equality in one case , away from it in the other ) it embodies a large part of the substance of political enquiry and of political doctrines from the nineteenth century to the present time . |
| 12 | The outside world and all its adversities faded away to nothing in the heated thrill of his embrace . |
| 13 | I 'll tell you more about it in the next chapter . |
| 14 | But you are going to hear a great deal more about it in the coming months . |
| 15 | I hope to be able to discuss it further with him in the not-too-distant future . |
| 16 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 17 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 18 | Thiercelin began to nudge through the crowd of idlers around the stage door , leaving his friend gazing stoically after him in the late evening rain . |
| 19 | As it is , with four seasons lost to the War , Jimmy reached 200 Southern League games , so that even today he is comfortably within our top forty all-time appearances , while only Joe Johnson and Harry Collyer played more often for us in the Southern League . |
| 20 | She knew this from the hushed voices of the nursery staff and from the comings and goings far below her in the great house . |
| 21 | Shop till you drop among the world 's most madding crowd , or stay far from it in the fragrant forests of The Land Between |
| 22 | Then it began to sweep slowly over her in the deprecating manner that Jessamy remembered so clearly from four years ago . |
| 23 | Headhunters , who mostly have a fee based upon one-third of the first year 's guaranteed compensation , did very well for themselves in the 1980s by recruiting many of these people who can make an outstanding contribution in terms of revenue to their organisations . |
| 24 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
| 25 | The special difficulty is not how to choose between several alternative computational accounts , once we have got them , but how to arrive even at one in the first place . |
| 26 | The county of Gloucestershire has seen some turbulent times over the centuries , not least of them in the present one . |
| 27 | But he paid dearly for it in the first place did n't he ? |
| 28 | That 's quite specific to the tax bracket but the source of work in Leeds has been very much from er corporate finance and from the insolvency practice , whilst that is er obviously a way forward for us in the initial stages . |
| 29 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 30 | So , you know we 've got a week now to maybe watch the T V tonight , watch the goals again tomorrow , enjoy what we 've just done , but erm some hard work ahead of it in the next few weeks . |