Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railways were unlikely to threaten that target but , just in case they harboured any ambitions to get close , Fraser removed three of their first four batsmen for 10 runs in the space of 22 deliveries . |
| 2 | A large section of the report is devoted to explaining how Blake 's mail , visits and his Arabic correspondence course were all carefully vetted by MI5 in case they contained coded messages from the Russians . |
| 3 | The two men were at the top of the stairs and almost within grabbing distance , but if either had tried it he would have left his fingers in the frame as the bang echoed through the house and Carson thumbed the deadlock button , just in case they had any ideas about picking their way in . |
| 4 | Just in case we got conflicting stories . ’ |
| 5 | Which it saves just in case we had any accidents , and lost any of our files anywhere . |
| 6 | ‘ Rock'n'roll ’ , in case you had any doubts , is not Jay 's bag . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I 'd better dance with you in case you wanted another drink . ’ |
| 8 | His pockets were full of remarks to make , and a bottle of bismuth in case he got nervous indigestion . |
| 9 | In fact he was so attracted to the canal with its brightly painted barges pulled by strong horses that his parents finally had to forbid him to go there in case he had another accident . |
| 10 | He felt a superstitious , almost fatalistic reluctance to look too closely now , in case he discovered some horror he had overlooked on that earlier journey , for toe tender was accepted and the price could not be varied . |
| 11 | Fran settled herself in the soft leather seat , not daring to glance at the two men in case she precipitated some sort of an adverse reaction . |
| 12 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 13 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |
| 14 | We then found that we did n't have enough cash to pay the landing fees , and in response I offered Portuguese escudos , converting at the rate in the newspaper . |
| 15 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard . |
| 16 | In addition they had two camel guns , small cannons which could be mounted on saddles and fired from the backs of camels ; for the circumstances these had been mounted on the back of a plush sofa which had been recovered from the rampart where it had served during the rains . |
| 17 | In addition he promised new loans to support broad-based rural development , infrastructural improvements and the substitution of new crops for coca . |
| 18 | In addition he won six Isle of Man TT titles , including the Senior TT four times . |
| 19 | Dustin kept changing his concept of the part , and in addition he threw several temper tantrums , none of which pleased the generally unflappable Stuart Burge , another distinguished British director . |
| 20 | In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches . |
| 21 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 22 | In addition it followed Roman Law on rape . |
| 23 | In winter the bare trees were florid with the purple and grey of pigeons , and in spring we buried dead baby sparrows under the soapsuds of fallen blossom . |
| 24 | ESSAY 7 — ; ‘ Their motives for social reform were far from benevolent , but in practice they created embryonic welfare states . ’ |
| 25 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 26 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 27 | Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities . |
| 28 | During a five-week period in Lent he gave 19 concerts , some at the homes of aristocrats such as Count Johann Esterházy and the Russian Ambassador , Prince Golitsin , and some privately organized by himself . |
| 29 | The vicar , Charles Fry , taught me elementary Greek on Saturdays in my latter years at school , and in return I wrote some letters at his dictation , for which he generously gave me a shilling an hour . |
| 30 | In return he composed short poems of thanks . |