Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This weakens the analysis and suggests inappropriate and possibly divisive policies which ignore discriminations and disadvantages common to white and black students , or which impinge in varying ways upon boys and girls . |
2 | The real value of regression therapy is demonstrated when the patient is aware of how he or she acts in certain circumstances but can find no reason for it at all . |
3 | 520e. ( 1 ) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree if he or she engages in sexual contact with another person and if either of the following circumstances exists : ( a ) Force or coercion is used to accomplish the sexual contact . |
4 | ‘ 520b. ( 1 ) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree if he or she engages in sexual penetration with another person and if any of the following circumstances exists : ( a ) That other person is under 13 years of age . |
5 | If it 's worth more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds between you at the moment and you leave it all to your surviving spouse then when he or she dies in due course and if those figures have n't altered they 'll be inheritance tax to pay . |
6 | If he or she fails in either respect , guilt may result ; and guilt may breed resentment , anger or rejection . |
7 | Yes they did , or they appeared in that light in the newspapers . |
8 | And everyone joins in this charade with talk of them now having time to do all the things they have always wanted to do . |
9 | I first saw her when I was called to see one of Mrs Ainsworth 's dogs , and I looked in some surprise at the furry black creature sitting before the fire . |
10 | I 'm ninety three now and I go in this back yard do something every time . |
11 | This column has been set aside for the punchcard machines , but I 'm not forgetting that some of you have manual machines and I hope in future issues in to include something for you from time to time . |
12 | The first weekend in September should be a closed date and I hope in future years the folly of playing games on national finals day will not be repeated . |
13 | But without your support and your demonstrations and support from whites in other countries with the rugby demonstrations , the cricket , with all aspects that you 've done , you 've also contributed to making it easier for us to be the kind of people we would like to be and I hope in that way we therefore do share as a family and then try and create one world . |
14 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
15 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |
16 | Sometimes he hit me , sometimes he just threatened me , and I lived in terrible fear of him . |
17 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
18 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
19 | And I came in one day a few days ago an and running around like a bee on heat with erm cries of oh I 've got so much to do and no time left in which to do it and I went ha I said yes , if you got up early , you know ! |
20 | The World squad matches in New Zealand were great and I felt in fine fettle there but after injury in Australia it has been quite a struggle . |
21 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
22 | My face was tingling with fear and I felt in imminent need of a toilet-roll . |
23 | And I knew in some sort , I think , that the animal was my brother , in this meek and helpless form . |
24 | He was a strong young man , and I delighted in that strength : he once signed a letter to me ‘ Your wild boy of Aveyron ’ . |
25 | It 's obvious that he 's been sent some kind of message , and I believe in these things . |
26 | It matters a great deal , and I want in this chapter to sketch out some of the implications of this inviolable link which the New Testament writers make between Jesus and the Spirit . |
27 | ‘ Yes , ’ Mick and I answered in simultaneous relief . |
28 | Laura and I sat in tense silence , listening to the creak of the stairs . |
29 | ‘ And I understand in this district we have the highest pay-outs of social security , ’ he added . |
30 | to erm the the pattern of development going on in Richmondshire and I suspect in other districts as well , having read through their their evidence . |