Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She adored Elizabeth , this good kind soul who had asked for little in return . |
| 2 | Scientific knowledge counts for little in comparison , for it is the field man in the great majority of encounters who is the ‘ front man ’ , the public face , of his agency ( Goffman , 1959 ) . |
| 3 | If any additional cost is applicable it will either be invoiced to you prior to departure or should be paid for locally in resort . |
| 4 | A major business park , er a major manufacturer , a major distribution centre , erm with the consequences for perhaps in commuting and trans er transport movements . |
| 5 | These were then collated and summarised by a planning group with copies made available for all in order to encourage further dialogue , debate and reflection at a second conversation the following evening . |
| 6 | I doubt if he is a hard enough case to brazen it out for long in confinement . |
| 7 | Wheeler , who in the past had been unprepared for much in life , was not leaving placement to chance . |
| 8 | The loss of a significant relationship through death is , however , likely to be one that we have not been able to prepare for much in advance , and it is likely to be a loss that we do regret . |
| 9 | Seven o'clock in the morning at seven o'clock till four , I think it was and then er it would be two till ten , you see , but the Stationmaster was always about just in case I was late er you know , not there by seven . |
| 10 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |
| 11 | Just in brackets , sort of just in pencil or Euro or something . |
| 12 | Our peers included our recent colleagues of yesterday in uniform and in the CID , but also took in the professor of psychiatry , the Home Office Drugs Branch official , the NHS executive , the sociologist , and the media hack . |
| 13 | " At home , if they let me out of here in time , " I said . |
| 14 | He 'd got sort of hard in consequence . |
| 15 | I 'll bring my matches when I like take the dog in I 'll nip upstairs and say I 've got ta get something and I 'll just grab my matches out of there in case he 's lost them or something ! |
| 16 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 17 | There 's a lot of there in bulk which we 're gon na get out on Friday . |
| 18 | Baker grew out of a mixture of punk and funk , but did n't kiss the ass of either in print . |
| 19 | The general rule excludes the carrier from liability for fraud on the part of the trader ‘ or the owner of the goods or the servants or agents of either in respect of that consignment ’ . |
| 20 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 21 | if you say and it 's true because right erm , the er that was talking about yesterday in lecture involves erm the notion of selfhood in and erm seems to be er a very very deeply complicated er topic , so erm I imagine there are questions that you folks had . |
| 22 | He found it in the fact that the State , ‘ united for once in spirit ’ and ‘ with the fervent consent of the people of every land subject to the rule of our King ’ had entered on an arduous conflict , not for territory or glory but ‘ for the sake of enforcing the plainest rules of international justice and the plainest dictates of common humanity ’ . |
| 23 | This seems mainly to be because Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson — for once in agreement — refuse to admit the existence of the crisis . |
| 24 | ‘ In the post-war years ’ , wrote Randolph 's son , ‘ Randolph remained for ever in debt because of his determination to live in the grand style to which he had allowed himself to become accustomed . ’ |
| 25 | At all times Flora is supported by her devoted cook Mrs Lodge , who has disquieting attacks of nostalgia for the country , but seems doomed to stay for ever in suburbia . |
| 26 | The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber , in which we remain as long as we do not think … we no sooner get into the second Chamber , which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought , than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere , we see nothing but pleasant wonders , and think of delaying there for ever in delight . |
| 27 | The boy was for ever in danger . |
| 28 | Were n't they for ever in danger of floods ? |
| 29 | Sins which can cause our soul to be lost for ever in hell need to be atoned for , need to be covered . |
| 30 | and it will not in that sense make any difference to God love , make a lot of difference to you and to me , but it will not make any difference to God 's love whether we spend our eternity in heaven or in hell , he will not love those in heaven any more than he loves those who are already , who will be punished for ever in hell , because God 's love is eternal , it did n't start at Bethlehem , it did n't start at Calvary and it does n't end when you and I die , as love is eternal , so God has provided salvation for every body and he offers salvation to all who will come to him in repent and and seine fe and except his salvation , you see when the Lord Jesus Christ died upon Calvary 's cross he died to make salvation available for who , for every body , you see he did n't just lay your sins on Jesus , listen to what the old testament profit Isaiah says , there in that tremendous fifty third chapter , and , and in what it 's in verse six , all of us says the profit like sheep have gone astray , each of us has turn to his own way , but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him , whether you and I reject Jesus Christ or accept him does not alter the fact that our sin was laid on Jesus the sins are the most awful person you can think of were laid on Jesus Christ , Jesus Christ paid the sins for , for , for , for men like Hitler , he paid theirs , the price for their sins , as much as he paid the price for the sins of somebody like St Francis of Assisi So God is not partial , it 's clear from scripture that all maybe saved , he made salvation available to all in that same book of Isaiah in chapter forty five , verse twenty two , it says look unto me all the ends of the earth are being saved said the Lord , in Romans one sixteen Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God onto salvation to all who will believe , and the verse we 've already quoted John three sixty , for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that who so ever believe in him should not perish , but have ever lasting life and Paul when writing to Timothy says he gives his own personal testimony he says this is a good and a faithful saying , it 's worthy of every body accepting that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved . |