Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've never had a winner in France and perhaps Lyric Fantasy can change that for me in the Abbaye . |
| 2 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 3 | Followed by one grated fresh apple topped with a quarter of a pint of vanilla-flavoured custard ( make half a pint of custard , adding a little extra sugar and a few drops of vanilla essence , and save half of it in the refrigerator for Friday ) . |
| 4 | Trent said , ‘ Wind picks up , we 'll need to tow half of it in the Zodiac . ’ |
| 5 | He insists that no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 6 | He insists no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 7 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 8 | Blisters rose immediately , some of them in the shape of the ring . |
| 9 | Each indicates quite specifically how a following statement will build on the preceding one , and we list some of them in the grid on the following pages . |
| 10 | Initially no effort was made to evict CPL officials and staff from the occupied buildings , but on April 20 a communist party printing works under military guard since March 30 was stormed by troops who evicted the staff , beating up some of them in the process . |
| 11 | Erm , and if if I can just , we will Treasurer and ourselves , be reporting to you in more detail on this , in the appropriate areas , but suffice it to say , that the government are accepting the need for further investigation on some of these issues , to look at some of them in the light of the national B U D report , on superannuation and pension arrangements generally , have nevertheless agreed that individual authorities ought to have some more discretion , and the compensation regulations that I mentioned earlier , is one example of that . |
| 12 | and I put some of it in the freezer |
| 13 | A staggering £300,000 had been raised from local people and businesses , some of it in the form of covenants . |
| 14 | Now some of you in the room , believe it or not , will be happy to hit that and sit at that . |
| 15 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 16 | Bearing in mind Britain 's good marine conservation record , will my right hon. Friend join some of us in the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society , with a view to saving thousands of whales and dolphins from drift nets , from so-called scientific whaling and from industrial pollution ? |
| 17 | Not another like it in the world ! ’ |
| 18 | Take this with you in the car on the day and you should n't come unstuck . |
| 19 | Here , if one animal is attacked by another above it in the status-hierarchy , the attacked animal , rather than fighting back , instead directs its aggression against some inferior — a means of dealing with the situation which is open to all except the most subordinate member of the group . |
| 20 | The Panel found that the persons involved in the case were unlikely to comply with the standards expected in the conduct of UK takeovers and consequently reported its conclusions to the SIB , the SROs and RPBs for appropriate action by each of them in the light of their several cold shouldering rules . |
| 21 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been a team for ever , and they 'll say things like , ‘ If we 're no going to learn a lot more about this character , why do we have so much about him in the beginning ? ’ |
| 23 | But they have n't said too much about it in the paper . |
| 24 | Does my hon. Friend agree that in constituencies such as mine in the south-east there are problems in providing houses for those most in need and I welcome the additional figures that he has announced for housing associations ? |
| 25 | We do n't see much of them in the daytime , but at night the bedbugs crawl out from under our mats , and we listen to the cockroaches munching away merrily in the food-basket between our heads , and to the brittle scrabbling of their feet on the ceiling a couple of feet above us . |
| 26 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think Liza thinks much of it in the winter . ’ |
| 28 | The industrial revolution was creating a new moneyed class , much of it in the North and Midlands . |
| 29 | Coal produces 70 per cent of the country 's energy , much of it in the form of dirty power stations or domestic cooking stoves . |
| 30 | The four months of shooting began in October 1972 , much of it in the Abruzzi , in the mountain town of Ascoli Piceno ( well photographed by Carlo Rustichelli ) , with studio work at the De Paolis Studio in Rome . |