Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , in these vague expectations I was mistaken . |
| 2 | In these rural parts it was usually a case of potter in the garden , or off to church or chapel . |
| 3 | He tried making snowballs as he had in Britain only to find that in these low temperatures he was left with a handful of flour-like snow that simply blew away when he threw it . |
| 4 | Certainly , all of the groups were unhappy with ( b ) as an ending : in all six reconstructions it was placed at least three sentences from the end . |
| 5 | In all six cases it was indicated that sexual intercourse had taken place . |
| 6 | In all those appointments he was popular both as preacher and pastor , but he kept up his musical activities , graduating D.Mus . |
| 7 | And in those early days he was careful with money . |
| 8 | In those early days he was n't very relaxed with them . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't know whether other newly married men feel the same , but in those early days I was aware ofa calm satisfaction and fulfilment . |
| 10 | In those latter areas it was left to the Serb-speaking parish priests , many of whom were illiterate , to act as upholders of Serbian culture . |
| 11 | In those dark days I was that uncomfortable mixture of martyr and guilty inadequate , which made me alternate between the guilt of holding people back and the fury that they did n't offer to stop without being asked . |
| 12 | I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone . |
| 13 | But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game . |
| 14 | In other public statements he was openly critical of the Lord Chancellor and his department , accusing it of being secretive and antiquated . |
| 15 | In one patient with three strictures , classification as benign was based on radiological studies and in two other patients it was based on the gross endoscopic appearances . |
| 16 | The experience of PNP , as recorded in our eleven interim reports and the previous six chapters , suggests that the extent of LEA centralization over PNP was excessive , and that in certain crucial respects it was counter-productive . |
| 17 | As the century grew older , this belief in divine intervention in the minutiae of life became less common ; but in certain devout households it was still alive at the century 's end . |
| 18 | In most traditional farmsteads it was also the central point to which the other buildings related . |
| 19 | At this stage the hand and gun mechanisms were still on a vertical , rather than horizontal , plane , but in most other respects it was the Dalek . |
| 20 | In both those studies it was possible to split the films into those showing different junctions and look at relationships between measures within each junction . |
| 21 | Four in , in both those occasions she was four years into her term of office . |
| 22 | In both these developments it was largely scholars in the United States who took the lead . |
| 23 | In both these cases it was held that the alternative of a manslaughter verdict ought to be left to the jury where the occasion justifies action in self-defence , or to prevent a crime , or to apprehend an offender , but where the defendant acts beyond the necessity of that occasion . |