Example sentences of "in the [noun] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 2 | The whirligig sometimes moves so fast that it overtakes its own ripples , and then any slight slope in the surface alerts it to an obstacle . |
| 3 | I think that the hatred and suspicion that Catholic and Protestants have of each other in the North locks them in an Eastern-European time-warp . |
| 4 | But Didone has a peculiarity which was to mark later Italian opera , including L'incoronazione : the part of Jarba , Dido 's rejected lover , who in the end saves her from suicide , is a castrato singing in a higher register than Dido herself ; Nerone and Ottone are in the same predicament . |
| 5 | The right hon. Gentleman has done a great deal during his period in the House for disabled people and everyone in the House admires him for what he has done , but he must know that there have been dramatic improvements in recent years in the scope , range and value of benefits and in the number of disabled people who receive them . |
| 6 | The tension in the films draws them towards minimum surface area . |
| 7 | That baggage you 've just taken on to help in the bedroom wears one like that and ties her apron right up under her breasts till they nearly pop out , beggin' your pardon , Mr Timothy . |
| 8 | However , being 50 in the office bars you from any sense of belonging to the group . |
| 9 | But the fundamental incommensurability of idea and event re-emerges in a precariousness in this narrativization of history where each disturbance in the writing punctuates it with the unassimilable , discontinuous and disjunctive temporality of the event . |
| 10 | By the afternoon she 's tucking into three or four chocolate digestives and in the evening has something like baked beans on toast and the odd glass of wine . |
| 11 | Antoine Bloye not only clarifies the meaning of Antoine 's life and in the process immortalises it in a negative exemplary narrative . |
| 12 | My man in the sombrero tells me of an incident at Goldsmith 's Mexican estate two weeks ago which has severed relations for the foreseeable future . |