Example sentences of "[adv] in [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the cottage he dumped her none too gently in one of the armchairs before the fire , pausing only to stir the embers back to life before stamping out towards the kitchen . |
| 2 | The economic realities meant that Prussia 's weight was thus far greater than the constitutional arrangements suggested : the Zollverein was administered by a sort of Council of Ministers which met annually in one of the capitals , and it took decisions by unanimity . |
| 3 | You should now be left with two acetate page markers , and everything else should be away in one of the binders , apart possibly from the dates . |
| 4 | He had read somewhere , possibly in one of the books Elinor was always reading , that people under totalitarian regimes had no access to their past . |
| 5 | Ousted early in 1990 through the efforts of the centre-right of the DC [ see p. 37262 ] , Orlando had achieved an unprecedentedly high personal vote in the regional elections of May 1990 [ see p. 37469 ] . |
| 6 | The church had important links with the butchers of Prague and they were given the first chapel on the left at the W end in honour of their defence of Prague , once in 1611 against the troops from Passau , and again in 1648 , against the Swedes . |
| 7 | Ten times he went into Test battle with them , winning once in 1977 in a Lions ' jersey , and his experience and example will be crucial when the revamped , and increasingly successful , Gwent side meet the tourists in 13 days time . |
| 8 | That the metal was poured from separate crucibles is shown very clearly in one of the heads where the mould had to be topped up . |
| 9 | By the time he came back into the sitting-room , carrying a couple of tumblers , Lisa had seated herself nervously in one of the armchairs . |
| 10 | I can imagine you turning right in one of the lanes around here , and me going straight on into some duck pond or other . ’ |
| 11 | Water torture … a dinghy floats down a flooded street today in one of the areas of Llandudno where water has been slow to disappear |
| 12 | I did n't want to return to the village : I wanted to stay here in one of the huts and not see any of them ever again . |
| 13 | Abigail , who had been put upstairs in one of the bedrooms to sleep , set up a wailing sound . |
| 14 | Oh yes , yes , er we 've got one upstairs in one of the bedrooms now . |
| 15 | ‘ We were upstairs in one of the shops . ’ |
| 16 | A dolphin and a dolphin with a twisted tail are also present in the mosaic from Lincoln , again in two of the semi-roundels ; whilst in a comparable position the Winchester mosaic , illustrates a cornucopia ( J.R.S. XLIX ( 1959 ) , pI . |