Example sentences of "[noun] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'd better put the duvet in the wash then . |
| 2 | Pump A custom fit concept using a manually inflated air bladder in the arch and collar of the shoe . |
| 3 | The answer to this question lies in the complex problem of whether there is ever a role for retaining the gall bladder in the presence of stones , and whether it is the gall bladder that is the cause of the stones such that recurrence of stones is inevitable . |
| 4 | So , if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow-kick us , we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand , and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future . |
| 5 | One correspondent , seeking to explain the motives behind the attack on the meeting-houses in the west midlands in the summer of 1715 , informed Staffordshire MP , William Ward , that the rioters have got a Notion , that the Ministry and Dissenters have ruined Trade , on Purpose to make the Nation out of Love with the late Peace , and Peace-makers ; and because the Ministry , and secret Committee , and their Friends , will not let the Country have Peace and Trade , they resolve ( if they can hinder it ) the Dissenters shall not have a quiet Toleration . |
| 6 | The tension that every honest office-holder in the Church must feel between ‘ the system ’ and his ( male language appropriate here ) Christian pastoral impulses is most acute for the Bishop of Rome . |
| 7 | When anything like this happened , every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department . |
| 8 | It means some bastard not only laid me out cold , and stuck me face-down in the Comer , but even rammed me well down into the mud with a foot in the small of my back to make dead sure of me , before he lit out and left me there to drown . ’ |
| 9 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 10 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 11 | Senna lost his front left wheel in the crash and both cars bounced over the kerbs and out of the race . |
| 12 | ‘ Then wheel in the prisoner . |
| 13 | ‘ The hardest part of the ‘ Challenge ’ was standing at the wheel in the cockpit after only four hours ' sleep , feeling like you were being bombarded by cannons firing icy water . |
| 14 | Its output is a setting for the steering wheel in the driver 's cab . |
| 15 | Robert was sent as an apprentice to an upholsterer in Covent Garden at the age of fourteen , progressed up the ladder , bought the business , and became a big wheel in the East India Company , a founder of Williams & Glyn Bank and the local MP . |
| 16 | Pistolet Blue , the 1991 Arc de Triomphe third , was surprisingly beaten into second place by Fortune 's Wheel in the Prix d'Harcourt at Longchamp yesterday . |
| 17 | They are most likely to occur because of a jerk in the cable causing an overrun , with the rope becoming tangled in the main wheel of the glider . |
| 18 | The truck finally swerved off the road and jounced across pine roots before it stalled with a jerk in the middle of a little grove . |
| 19 | Part-throttle upshifts can be detected on the revcounter , but rarely from any jerk in the driveline . |
| 20 | I was so angry with him , I called him a jerk in the street , and worse than that , and I told my mum about it . |
| 21 | But the little Auberge La Provençale in the rue Chabran is quite quiet and you can enjoy a good little dinner — nothing spectacular , but genuine and decently cooked food well served — and go to bed early . |
| 22 | Thame United , they 're at home to Milton Keynes Borough in the south Midlands premier league . |
| 23 | Not a single borough in the capital was having difficulty finding enough flats and houses . |
| 24 | Protracted industrial decline since the 1920s , accelerated in the postwar period by the closure of the docks , had produced all the symptoms of a depressed inner-city area which , according to a government survey using a range of socioeconomic indicators , was the second most deprived urban borough in the country ( Department of the Environment 1983 ) . |
| 25 | But no amount of passive resistance and bureaucratic delay could halt the process set in train by Ceauşescu in the spring of 1988 . |
| 26 | Pulmonary hypertension associated with primary biliary cirrhosis in the absence of portal hypertension : a case report |
| 27 | The role of platelet activating factor blocker in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease deserves investigation . |
| 28 | A spokesman said the majority of thefts took place in the West End but there were also a series of car break-ins in the Parkside area . |
| 29 | There had been car break-ins in the area but there was nothing to connect Wolfenden with them . |
| 30 | Police at Antrim Road RUC station said there had been an increasing number of break-ins in the Oldpark and Cliftonville districts . |