Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patron could be either a large client or a ‘ broker ’ , in the case here a firm of land agents . |
| 2 | From his jacket pocket Robert took out a grubby sheet of paper — the translation of the mysterious manuscript that had been given to him in the pub nearly a year ago today . |
| 3 | in the winter once a month . |
| 4 | In the bar upstairs a juke-box started up loudly . |
| 5 | To approach a lake with delicacy and quietness , to blend in with the background and , once the bait is in the water only a rod 's length out , to sit there with bated breath , using every available piece of cover . |
| 6 | Miss Simpson and I are going to stay in the house quite a while . |
| 7 | There have been some important developments since the Bill was last debated in the House almost a year ago . |
| 8 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we hold televised debates in the House twice a week — |
| 9 | To relieve tensions in the week before a Cup tie , players were usually taken to Brighton , where the routine was golf on Monday morning , followed by sea-water baths , more golf , training sessions at Brighton FC 's ground and ( compulsory ) cinema visits in the evenings . |
| 10 | She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away . |
| 11 | I think it 'll have to be put in the garage and then put in the car once a week or something . |
| 12 | The critic never finds it , but Todorov sees in the tale both a set of instructions for any critic of literature and an outline of the figure to be read in the carpet of James 's own work . |
| 13 | He went hunting in Grasmere , and often stayed on for a party in the evening after a hunt . |
| 14 | By mid-December , with the scandal in the news barely a month , a Hollywood producer , Jay Weston , already had his eyes on it . |
| 15 | The Manchester outrage is a considerable escalation from the terrorists ' last attempt to place bombs in the city almost a year ago to the day . |
| 16 | He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’ |
| 17 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 18 | Q : You had been in the business almost a decade before you appeared in a blockbuster . |
| 19 | they 've gone down in the world again a bit . |
| 20 | This man , chamberlain , sheriff , Lord Mayor of York , member of parliament for the city , er master of the king 's mint , an important man , a local man , come up in the world quite a lot cos his grandfather had just been an apothecary living on the corner of er Grape Lane going up and up and up . |
| 21 | Results of psycholinguistic experiments to do with the intelligibility of words spliced out of context seem to cast doubt on the usefulness of the categorization , however , Lieberman ( 1963 ) found that , the word borrower was recognised by 80% of subjects when isolated from the context , The borrowers were all imprisoned , but was only 45% intelligible in the context Neither a borrower nor a lender be . |
| 22 | Hence if a trigram was not present in the corpus then a probability was generated for it based on the bigrams , and if the bigram was absent the probability was based on the unigram . |