Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 2 | So when I was confronted by the station warrant officer ( SWO ) in my very best turnout I was somewhat aggrieved at his tirade about my flouting regulations when a strange apparition approached , an airman acting as the station Postman . |
| 3 | In their notoriously fashion-based hometown they 've stuck out from the crowd by not following rules and soldering disparate musics together when everyone else was trying to fit into narrow categories . |
| 4 | In their most recent study they compared these distant from the tumour with those from histologically normal samples taken within a 1 cm radius of the tumour and founr that regardless of the colonic segment being considered , the proliferative activity in tumour adjacent tissues was generally dampened with respect to that of the more distant specimens . |
| 5 | Indeed , in their frequently incestuous marriages , and in their usually selfish domination they seriously compromised the fundamental prohibitions against incest and parricide on which all human societies depend . |
| 6 | When she turned up at Buckingham University in her newly ennobled capacity she showed nothing had changed . |
| 7 | Even in its most calm state it still resonates to brain waves that vibrate at eight cycles per second . |
| 8 | It needed to be bigger , for it was widely used as a plough ox on the very heavy , stiff clays of the Sussex Weald and in its more distant past it played a valuable role in the Sussex iron industry by hauling hefty loads of timber and metal . |
| 9 | He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack . |
| 10 | Steiner 's association of homosexuality with narcissism , solipsism , and the refusal of referentiality obviously suggests reservations about both modernism ( as he conceives it ) and the efficacy of the homosexual influence upon it , and it comes as no surprise that in his most recent book he launches a strong attack on the former . |
| 11 | But then , in his very next speech he insists on shaking the hands of all of the conspirators . |
| 12 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 13 | In your otherwise excellent article you referred to Bob 's evasion of ‘ the sad dank dustbin of memory ’ . |