Example sentences of "in the [det] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heaven knew she 'd been the subject of enough prurient curiosity in the few short weeks she 'd been running the club . |
| 2 | In in the any other business I 'm gon na raise the question of us doing work for Irish Railways . |
| 3 | The chart-room section held nothing that a chart-room should not have had , including a locked cupboard which Talbot opened in the same cavalier fashion he had used on the bridge : it held only pilot books and sailing directions . |
| 4 | After years he had lost his oldest and best friend but in a way he had always despised friendship ; families were what mattered , more particularly that larger version of himself — his family ; and while seated in the same scheming fury he saw each individual member gradually slipping away out of his reach . |
| 5 | But with lots of others in the same hot water it 's great fun . |
| 6 | First Kylie emerged for the rehearsal in the same impeccable outfit she was due to wear in front of Princess Margaret that night , and ran through a flawless performance of her then new single ‘ Hand On Your Heart ’ . |
| 7 | Indeed , he went on to explain , there are perhaps quite good reasons not to tell of our new line , for in this way , he argued , others may indulge in the same small adventure we shared in Bolivia — a country where the best-laid plans are best unmade . |
| 8 | And in the same repetitious way she had recalled the scene she 'd interrupted the evening before by announcing that supper was ready : Gordon and the boy seated in the sitting-room before the cosy glow of the electric fire , drinking sherry . |
| 9 | You see we still insist on making our handmade bricks in the same painstaking way we 've always made them . |
| 10 | She paused and then went on in the same proud tone she had used when she showed them the bathroom , ‘ Mr Evans is a very important man . |
| 11 | Then , in the same gentle tone she had heard Travis use when he had been speaking to the woman he loved , he murmured , ‘ Leith , my darling , I just ca n't keep it to myself any longer — do you mind ? ’ |
| 12 | My mother , now some years dead , used to breathe the word in the same hushed tones she bestowed upon jews , Asians , and Natives . |
| 13 | One of her first arrivals at Heathrow gave the British tabloids a field day as she climbed off a long-haul flight from Australia in the same travel-weary outfit she had boarded in . |
| 14 | She answered James Longley 's question in the same direct way it had been posed . |
| 15 | ‘ Down , Snappy ! ’ said Eleanor in the same dead tone she had used when Melissa first arrived . |