Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the legal sense she supposed he did nothing worse than truant from school . |
| 2 | He did n't actually say the words , but they were implicit in the final look he gave her before disappearing down the companionway . |
| 3 | In the final session we agreed the basis for a ‘ declaration ’ to the informal meeting of EC Environment Ministers being held in Denmark later this month . |
| 4 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 5 | In the final stages I attempted to draw together the wide ranging tones and then to punctuate these closer tones with an occasional tonic of colour in the foreground — a turquoise yellow or a red . |
| 6 | But in the final hour he did deliver the goods , taking impromptu questions from the audience . |
| 7 | This incident made me realise that our careful descriptions of the relationship between dialect and Standard English might be misread , and so in the final Report I insisted that we should reiterate many times that all pupils should learn , and if necessary be explicitly taught , Standard English . |
| 8 | This was important because they had a predominantly ‘ social ’ rather than a ‘ professional ’ relationship with users , and it acted as a reminder that in the final analysis they had the power to impose sanctions when necessary . |
| 9 | But in the final analysis I thought it was such a shame we did n't hang on . |
| 10 | But in the final analysis it had been he who wanted out . |
| 11 | But in the final weeks she began to fall , and I organized a home help and district nurse . |
| 12 | In the final section you did pay close attention to detail , but it remained only observation of detail . |
| 13 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 14 | In the immediate vicinity it linked Danzig with Stettin and Berlin via the rivers Notec and Oder and the Bromberg Canal ; via the river Nogat and the Frisches Haff it linked up with Elbing , Marienburg and Königsberg ; via the river Pregel and the river Dieme and the Kurisches Haff it reached out to Memel and Tilsit . |
| 15 | Only in the Ring of Fire , in the Eastern islands he loved , is his name writ large — on any globe worth its salt — in The Wallace Line . |
| 16 | In the spare bedroom I had a demountable work-bench with a vice and an array of small tools . |
| 17 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |
| 18 | In the fertile valleys they acquired large agricultural granges , some to be farmed by their own lay brothers , others let out to tenants who formed clusters of farm ‘ townships ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school . |
| 20 | In the small hours he awoke , feeling ravenous ; he slipped quietly from the bed , — trying not to awaken her , and tiptoed from the room . |
| 21 | In the small hours she woke , her heart beating . |
| 22 | In the small kitchen he said in a low voice , ‘ Are you OK ? ’ |
| 23 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |
| 24 | Berger stood stripped to the waist in front of the wash-basin in the small bedroom he had been allocated and examined his face in the mirror . |
| 25 | Her relief was evident in the small cry she made . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to . |
| 27 | One night Kit stumbled by , when Ariel was sitting outside the cabin , with the baby sleeping near her in the small hammock she had rigged up for him . |
| 28 | The thoughts tumbled confusedly together as she drove back to the Hamiltons ' in the small car they had put at her disposal . |
| 29 | ‘ But when we were in the great chamber you mentioned a wedding — in a few weeks . ’ |
| 30 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |