Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [noun] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
| 2 | That resulted in my proposal to increase the discount to 50 per cent . |
| 3 | And I had a bit of tulle in my hair to match the dress … |
| 4 | If I do not get the chance later in my response to answer the comments of the hon. Member for Caernarfon ( Mr. Wigley ) on students with special needs in further education , I say now that I attach great importance to those students . |
| 5 | ‘ If it had n't gone through this time , I would have had no time left in my life to enter the ministry I so dearly want to join . |
| 6 | My Lord it may be that the , it certainly should say that Lawrence escaped , I in my photocopy caused the escape and who he escaped with . |
| 7 | One case in my constituency highlights the type of thing that happens . |
| 8 | He will be even more interested to know that , through the grapevine , I have heard that one Labour county councillor in my constituency supports the application and that another Labour county councillor , who publicly opposes it , privately supports it because she has a child at Torrells comprehensive school . |
| 9 | When he was much smaller , Tom was once discovered in my study attacking the dust-jacket of a Norman Mailer novel with my scissors ; no doubt he will make a fine critic , but since then the door to my bolt-hole has remained bolted . |
| 10 | Several informants in my study articulated the view that their parents preferred them to speak British English : Mom — mom likes me to speak mostly English , she said when I go out into , you know , upper class society , and I start speakin " Patois dey might not understand , and take me as an idiot . |
| 11 | This will be a real test for the Randalstown players , for Leonard and Graham are favourites in my book to win the championship . |
| 12 | and my Lord in relation the provisions of the Lloyd 's Act and the er byelaws that are linked into solvency and the maintenance of er , er adequate fund and the payment of policy holders , in my submission constitute the implementation of that directive and those obligations er in , er relation to the society and that is perfectly compatible with community law er it is er the states er have variety of ways in which they can give effect er to community obligations . |
| 13 | With that in mind , the officers rightly in my opinion made the decision to bring this incident to a halt in this way . |
| 14 | Steve Foley has become Colchester 's caretaker-manager for a second time , Jock Wallace having been appointed a director last week — ‘ I will do all in my power to help the club , ’ he said . |
| 15 | She came , and with her little instrument ( which in my imagination took the form of a ticket-collector 's punch ) nipped the lobe of the boy 's ear . |
| 16 | Later , at home , my Dad puts up another five shelves in my bedroom to display the trophies that have just been delivered by Securicor . |
| 17 | I ca n't help laughing , so I duck behind the door and bury my knuckles in my mouth to catch the drips . |
| 18 | Statements do not in my view lose the immunity upheld in Neilson 's case simply because proceedings contemplated when the statements were made in fact occur . |
| 19 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
| 20 | For the rest we had to depend on such persuasion as I could muster in my speech opposing the adoption of the agenda at the first meeting . |
| 21 | In default of explanation Mr. Cunningham 's award was so far below what , by analogy with the award of an industrial tribunal , he was entitled to expect as in my judgment to compel the inference that the assessment was irrational , if not perverse . |
| 22 | In such a context the interests of the State must in my judgment mean the interests of the State according to the policies laid down for it by its recognised organs of government and authority , the policies of the State as they are , not as they ought , in the opinion of a jury , to be . |
| 23 | Mr. Beazley also relied on the general statements of principle in paragraphs 9 and 10 of the Peters case [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 quoted above , which he submitted echoed the general principles laid down in the Gubisch case [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 ; these are important principles , to which full weight must be given , but they can not in my judgment warrant the court placing a construction on the words of article 5(1) which they can not reasonably bear , and moreover they must be balanced against another general principle , laid down for example in Kalfelis v. Bankhaus Schrôder , Mûnchmeyer , Hengst and Co . |
| 24 | ( The gypsy in my soul wanted the gypsy in my arms ! ) |
| 25 | On the other side , critics ( including some Conservatives ) claim that in their zeal to break the consensus the governments have destroyed much of manufacturing industry , starved the welfare state of resources , and divided British society . |
| 26 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 27 | These two chapters are therefore intentionally derivative and familiar in their themes to allow the arguments to build upon and add to the cumulative knowledge about routine police work . |
| 28 | The consumers of this architecture , the council tenants , have been notoriously restricted in their ability to transform the façade of these dwellings . |
| 29 | It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests . |
| 30 | The great expansion of fossil discoveries now meant that paleontologists were increasingly confident in their ability to plot the course of each group 's development . |