Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her own preference was for retracing Maurice 's route at first light in case he had suffered a breakdown or been involved in an accident . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , it was good , ’ she replied , rather vexed in case she had betrayed a lack of appreciation by standing up too quickly . |
| 3 | Yeah , Mike , Mike and , he 's erm I do n't think he 's , I think he will be able to in future he 's got a meeting arranged tonight and he 'll be here next time . |
| 4 | With that thought in mind we have produced a chart which reveals the extent to which business involving the recording of Irish bands and artists has gone abroad in recent years . |
| 5 | With this in mind we have established a small expert working party under the chairmanship of Stuart Cole , Director of Transport Research and Consultancy at the Polytechnic of North London . |
| 6 | With this in mind he has established a small scientific strategic and research programme to look at the analytical programme from a broader perspective . |
| 7 | With this criterion in mind she 'd picked a neat black cotton dress , short-sleeved and V-necked . |
| 8 | Well yeah I mean bear in mind bear in mind you 've got a week 's notice to put one together . |
| 9 | Hence , during my time in post I have made a positive effort to spread the gospel of AI within at least the Engineering Branch . |
| 10 | In conclusion we have found a persistent tachygastria in the fasting state in three of four patients with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction with a known neuropathic basis for their condition , and in none of 15 control patients , none of three patients with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction as a result of muscle disease , and none of four with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction with an unknown basis . |
| 11 | In conclusion we have shown a significantly increased faecal bile acid concentration in patients with adenomatous polyps and an increased proportion of secondary bile acids in the faeces of patients with established colorectal cancer . |
| 12 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 13 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 14 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 15 | In fact we 've had a couple of meetings recently Kevin with , with erm the employment office looking at , at their changing role |
| 16 | ‘ The sale is not any reflection on the business — in fact we have had a brilliant year , ’ Lady Tryon tells me . |
| 17 | I understand that Sussex University does n't have a science park , but in fact it 's got a research park . |
| 18 | In fact he had sent a message via the Chief Whip telling him that if he felt he must abstain he was at liberty to do so . |
| 19 | More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . ) |
| 20 | In fact you 've scored a lot of Brownie points with the Chairman , bringing his precious clubs back . |
| 21 | I 'm just trying , looking through your submission to see whether in fact you have produced a table which showed the possible land provision based on thirty four workers to the hectare . |
| 22 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 23 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 24 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 25 | And in fact I 've got a photograph of all the somewhere about the house . |
| 26 | Yeah , in fact I 've got a , I 've been allocated a place , but it 's not ready for me yet . |
| 27 | My hosts have taken me around , and I thought that we would have lunch in the Television Tower — in fact I have reserved a table . |
| 28 | In fact she 'd had a brief nap on the flight over and the adrenalin was racing round her body , making the possibility of sleep unlikely , but anything was better than sitting like a frightened child beside him , hoping against hope that he would finally melt and utter the sort of words she had once yearned to hear . |
| 29 | In fact she has made a cryptic entrance already in the fifteenth line of this canto : ‘ … of Berengar his heirs was this Eleanor ’ . |
| 30 | But in recompense I have received a gift worth more than all the rest put together . |