Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 2 | because er it 's obviously gon na fill a gap in my financial planning that I 'd not thought about in the past so I did find it particularly helpful . |
| 3 | There was nothing in my own life that I could not confide to him , and I could not imagine what there might be in his that he needed to keep from me . |
| 4 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 5 | In bed , drifting on the edge of sleep , I think of November evenings in my own town that I hate so much , London , with its sky of sagging cloud , where all the beautiful women already have boyfriends . |
| 6 | The deliberation took two minutes and Fairbrother said : ‘ I felt in my own mind that I was in . |
| 7 | Erm I have no doubt in my own mind that you would be able to erm launch into this without any problem because of your experience . |
| 8 | But when people like Norman Jay and Omar said they were into the track , it sort of backed up in my own mind that it was a safe tune — they 're not the sort of people who give you compliments just to make you smile . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I know she came to Oxford and I 'm certain in my own mind that she came to Breakspear College . |
| 10 | It was only in my third year that I really felt happy there . |
| 11 | I was as sure as anything I 've ever been sure about in my whole life that he wished he was still an actor . |
| 12 | I want to say the thing that 's happening at the moment in my difficult life that I 'd hold onto like a drowning man with a log . |
| 13 | Q I recently saw a fish in my local shop that I have just got to have . |
| 14 | Erm I 've expressed a view in my written submissions that I think the emphasis solely on rail erm access i is unfortunate and perhaps should be widened to er public transport generally , obviously rail access plus rail transport has a particular type of usage . |
| 15 | This echoes the statement in their second encounter that he , Porfiry , has no intention of making an immediate arrest because by doing so he would give the murderer somebody to be : ‘ I 'd give him , so to say , a definite position , I 'd give him psychological definition and peace . ’ |
| 16 | Some 400 million years ago , they found ways of surviving out of water and made such a success of life in their new surroundings that they ultimately gave rise to the most numerous and diverse group of all land animals , the insects . |
| 17 | Now she and Philip create designer jewellery in their spare time that they sell through galleries and museums in Britain and America . |
| 18 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 19 | No — the manufacturers never believe in their wildest dreams that you 'd ever want to remove their product ; it 's far too wonderful . |
| 20 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 21 | Once amongst the world 's greatest blue-water navigators , guided by wave patterns and the clues in seaweed and bird droppings , the Bugis had now lost so much confidence in their old ways that they had been reduced to coast-hugging , on the principle that if their ships sank they at least had a chance of making it ashore alive . |
| 22 | Some people , after an experience of regression to a Past life , are absolutely convinced in their own minds that it was a genuine recollection of a time when they have lived before . |
| 23 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 24 | It is to these directors many of whom the industry forgot in their later years that I wish to pay tribute . |
| 25 | It was dreadful to her to think that Rose was an amateur tart earning such a pittance in her legitimate work that she was ready to sell herself for so little . |
| 26 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 27 | We were due to record a longish interview with her one afternoon , and over lunch at her favourite restaurant in Basil Street my producer Anthony Rouse and I both asked if there was any subject in her long life that she did not want touched upon . |
| 28 | She looked at Gay , who was an only child too , but who had nobody to give her a good time , and then her glance travelled to Breeze , who had just admitted in her light-hearted fashion that she had no idea of what the future would hold for her . |
| 29 | She scolded him then , in her cheerful way that she knew he did n't mind . |
| 30 | She was so caught up in her own feelings that she failed to detect the danger in the question . |