Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that six weeks they had become friends , and it was a very satisfying feeling . |
| 2 | In some other respects it relied on centuries of evolution of peasant society . |
| 3 | I said ‘ What do you mean ? ’ in such shocked tones she believed me straight away . |
| 4 | In 83 first-class matches he scored 3,845 runs . |
| 5 | In these early days I got overwhelmed very easily . |
| 6 | In these earlier years he eschewed biography as a path to understanding . |
| 7 | It is paradoxical , perhaps , that in these post-war years he came to enjoy his greatest fame and , in the end , happiness . |
| 8 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 9 | In three short months she did n't need the medication she had been dependent on for years . |
| 10 | ‘ Certainly , Cabannes did superbly at the back of the lineout today but he was a regular target and in all other areas I gave Back the edge . |
| 11 | This was curious ; in all other areas she treated — always had treated — Edward as negligible . |
| 12 | In all other respects it seemed that I was winning . |
| 13 | In all 16 cases he found nerve damage . |
| 14 | In all first-class matches he captured 1,956 wickets at an average of 14.87 , the best average for any bowler taking more than 1,500 wickets in the twentieth century . |
| 15 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 16 | In all three raids he claimed he had a gun and at one building society he told staff he was armed with a hand grenade . |
| 17 | At that time , the mullahs were the country 's principal teachers and in many rural areas they had become considerable men of property , taxing the people and buying land for themselves . |
| 18 | Finding herself in severe financial straits she went along to the appropriate authority to ask for money to buy food for her children . |
| 19 | In those Whig-dominated years he found that England was preponderantly not Whig but Tory ; he found that a corruption-wielding establishment could win elections only in the , numerically preponderant , boroughs and even then only at the cost of an enormously expensive patronage machine . |
| 20 | In those early days it seemed the sky was the limit ! |
| 21 | ‘ In those early days I did n't even stop to think how Derrick felt , ’ she admits . |
| 22 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
| 23 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , ‘ in those three weeks I got closer to him than anybody . |
| 24 | In those hard times she turned to the god in the village where she lived , and that god stood by her . |
| 25 | For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting . |
| 26 | And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband . |
| 27 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 28 | In those few seconds I saw myself returned to Leeds like a misrouted parcel … |
| 29 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 30 | It was just eighty-eight days since he had recaptured his capital of Paris , yet in those few days he had shown the world how an emperor made armies . |