Example sentences of "in [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roman Emperor Antonine , while he would have looked in vain for the wall he built across Scotland 2,000 years before , would have been quite at home in the vast amphitheatre of Celtic Park . |
| 2 | In fact , Botham did have an excuse , in that before the match he had received a death threat . |
| 3 | Diana de Moutis , entrusted with the sale of ‘ La Celestine ’ by its owner Georges Pellequer , contacted Didier Imbert in 1986 in the hope he could help her obtain an export licence . |
| 4 | Nicolas and Bridget in Plagued by the Nightingale I can understand . |
| 5 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 6 | In much of the discussion it has been assumed that it is a parent who seeks the information . |
| 7 | He only knew one word in three of the lyric he 'd chosen . |
| 8 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 9 | A good example is the way Mycenaean smiths anticipated Bolsover 's invention of Sheffield plate in 1743 in the way they capped the rivets used to secure dagger and sword blades to their hilts with silver . |
| 10 | There was growing dissatisfaction with the Church and in particular with the way it was developing in the late twelfth century . |
| 11 | He left most of his meal , and seemed uninterested in any of the conversation she attempted , answering in monosyllables most of the time . |
| 12 | Alfonso García Robles , the veteran diplomat who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 for the part he had played in UN disarmament negotiations [ see p. 31831 ] , died on Sept. 3 , aged 80 . |
| 13 | For more evidence that addictions have something in common in the way they act on the brain as a whole , no matter which pathways they stimulate , look at the pictures on this page . |
| 14 | In most of the work I shall discuss here a central position is maintained for the knowing subject as the intending actor who enters social situations . |