Example sentences of "in real [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In real life we 're really pretty shite . ’ |
| 2 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |
| 3 | Whatever else we do tonight , we should reject the cruel illusion that the ERM is the great magic system that can give the people the stability they desire — in real life we can promise that to no one . |
| 4 | In real life we see the world through our own eyes . |
| 5 | Just as in real life they were assimilating a clinical attitude to human functions , many of which are taboo in Western society , their dreaming interpretations of their own sexuality were also in terms of a medical model . |
| 6 | Erm what would present problems in real life I think would be developments of a larger kind than that in which a new settlement er might be one strategic site if we had such a policy might be another . |
| 7 | In real life I do ! |
| 8 | In real life I normally do . |
| 9 | Even if the exact number of rounds in the game is not known for certain , in real life it is often possible to make a statistical guess as to how much longer the game is likely to last . |
| 10 | This sort of behaviour may be cute and quirky when Tom Hanks does it in a feel-good age-swap movie , but in real life it 's pathetic , regressive , and very very sad . |
| 11 | In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder . |
| 12 | ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea . |
| 13 | In real life it is up to the problem.solver to search around and find the factors that should be taken into consideration and the ones that can safely be left out . |
| 14 | In real life it is not unreasonable to expect that the learner may often hear things of which the meaning escapes him . |
| 15 | I remember on one occasion I dashed out of the television studios to the bookshop in Norwich without a trace of make-up on and these kids fell off their bikes , saying ‘ Ugh , in real life you do n't look at all like you do on TV . ’ ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Instead of negotiating a child will look at confrontation — but in real life you ca n't just zap people . ’ |
| 17 | In real life you will not have this limitation , but it will still be important not to ramble and repeat yourself . |
| 18 | Mostly in real life you know what people are going to say . ’ |
| 19 | In real life she went round clubs measuring men 's dicks to see if you could tell which club a man frequented by the size of his dick . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ In real life she 's a shy little thing . |
| 21 | In real life she 'd been a poor shepherdess who lived in a dungeon and had asthma . |
| 22 | But in real life she has had to make the difficult transition from child to adult star . |
| 23 | In real life he would have been sued for millions and his story turned into a mini-series , but it 's nice to dream . |
| 24 | ‘ He got annoyed when I said that though and said it was n't true , so I 'd like this time to say that although he appears to be very clever on stage and TV , in real life he is extremely stupid . ’ |
| 25 | In real life he s a bollox left back . |
| 26 | But if anyone could relax her , it was Miguelito , if in real life he was as tender , as passionate and as exciting as the music he made . |
| 27 | In real life he flies Andovers at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire , but for now he 's pawing over charts of a different kind , plotting his route to the eastern seaboard of the United States . |
| 28 | But in politics and in real war he was a child , incapable of concentrating for long . |
| 29 | In real combat he would have lost at least one leg at the knee . |