Example sentences of "[adv] in [pos pn] [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
| 2 | Whereas Sutherland describes the Augustan poet as a man at dinner with his friends , Sitter leaves the impression of the mid-century poet alone in his rooms gnawing a joint . |
| 3 | She had said she could n't stand living in such close proximity to quite so many facial quirks , but there was something deeper in her decision to take a small flat near the school . |
| 4 | PGA is a big lunchtime hit around the Practical PC office and the Ed can regularly be seen tucked away in his office playing a round of golf . |
| 5 | Because Pound the critic seems to be always in his shirt-sleeves sparing a few distraught hours or minutes from the more serious business of writing poems or translating them , his criticism is dispersed , though there is much more of it than we are likely to remember . |
| 6 | I doubt she has ever in her life packed a suitcase ! |
| 7 | As he stood in uncertainty , still clutching his rupee , the people pushed him aside in their hurry to buy a little favour with divinity . |
| 8 | I 've only once in my life written a fan letter to a film star . |
| 9 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 10 | ‘ I never in my life heard a train say licketty split or tickety boo , ’ protested Lydia . |
| 11 | ‘ But then , I have never in my life known a single headmaster of whom that might not be said . ’ |
| 12 | He said that he had examined the plans with Sir Joseph Paxton , the other member for Coventry , and ‘ had never in his life seen a building which appeared so confused in its internal arrangements ’ . |
| 13 | IVAN Lendl was today looking to Britain 's grasscourt season to resurrect his flagging career after failing miserably in his bid to land a fourth French Open title . |
| 14 | It was therefore in their interest to get a minimum price fixed for the cloth . |