Example sentences of "in the [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 nineteenth century they manned the lower ranges of the political structure by combining with their traditional municipal powers the electoral patronage of parliamentary government . |
| 17 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 18 | In the nineteenth century it provided little more than ten per cent of government revenue . |
| 19 | Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first |
| 20 | Time was suspended and the police heard my life story at least twice with patience and good humour in the 80 minutes it took to cut my right leg free from the car . |
| 21 | In the spare bedroom I had a demountable work-bench with a vice and an array of small tools . |
| 22 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Then with the acquisition of Gascony in the mid-eleventh century they became rulers of Bordeaux and overlords of a number of counties and lordships extending from the mouth of the Garonne to the Pyrenees , in area about twice the size of Poitou . |
| 25 | ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school . |
| 26 | In the small hours he awoke , feeling ravenous ; he slipped quietly from the bed , — trying not to awaken her , and tiptoed from the room . |
| 27 | In the small hours she woke , her heart beating . |
| 28 | In the small kitchen he said in a low voice , ‘ Are you OK ? ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |