Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |
| 2 | ‘ To me everyone in the pop has an image of being stoned and drunk every night . |
| 3 | ‘ Poetry places me in a very special position — as someone who in the end came to terms with society but not enough to be socially acceptable . ’ |
| 4 | Sections 34–43 give the Director power to act against someone who in the course of business persistently breaks the law ( civil or criminal ) in a way detrimental to the interests of consumers . |
| 5 | He went on to top our list of goalscorers for each of his first five seasons ( another record ) and , between September 1929 and April 1935 , played in 180 league and 15 FA Cup matches for us , scoring a fabulous 153 League and 12 FA Cup goals to establish a tally which no-one in the club has ever approached before or since . |
| 6 | So notices for insurance premia arrive at Trivandrum in South India , say , printed only in Hindi , which no-one in the area can decipher . |
| 7 | Along with luck , this is the scarce commodity which no one in the music business can manufacture and which everyone in the industry is looking for . |
| 8 | ] Neo-classical theories failed to perceive that the characteristic features of the real world ( to which nothing in the perfectly competitive model corresponds ) are simply the manifestations of entrepreneurial competition , a process in which would-be buyers and sellers gropingly seek to discover each other 's supply and demand curves . |
| 9 | A further offence is to be found in the Mail Order Transactions ( Information ) Order 1976 , whereby written advertisements in which someone in the course of a business invites from consumers mail orders for goods , with payment in advance , must include a legible description of the name and address of the person inviting the orders . |
| 10 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 11 | This is a question which we in the West need to ask ourselves , for too often we identify the self with the body , or feeling or thinking or consciousness . |
| 12 | Above all , I look forward as the new Labour Party Treasurer to bringing the party membership fee down from the dizzy heights of eighteen pounds to the level which we in the trades unions know ordinary people can afford . |
| 13 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 14 | Are they satisfactory , genuinely universal conceptual systems , which everybody in the new , gender-free intellectual cosmos can use with perfect comfort ? |
| 15 | There should be a simple , well-organised system for collecting and updating useful information to which everybody in the firm can contribute . |
| 16 | Erm we also offered everything from sort of secretarial help and er use of photocopiers and duplicators , to the tenants ' group , through to I guess being able to perhaps suggest to them who in the council it might be that they needed to speak to , or perhaps tactically how to go about achieving their particular aims . |
| 17 | That will cost you something in the region of fifty pounds a week . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We hope to bring our African brethren , who we in the western world have exploited so much in past centuries , some of the spiritual heritage of our European Christian culture in the form of the contemplative monastic life which in time will be adapted and enriched by the beauty and spontaneity of African worship and culture as they come to join us , ’ said Sister Bernadette . |
| 19 | Did they give you anything in the ambulance ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't offer you anything in the way of shoes . |
| 21 | taking them one in the morning and one at teatime and one at bedtime . |
| 22 | Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 24 | An attempt to answer this question , and one which in the opinion of S. G. F. Brandon shows some consciousness of the significance of the factor of time , was made by a late Zoroastrian priest renowned for his orthodoxy . |
| 25 | Communication of data via computerised and electronic means is a relatively new mode of communications but one which in the space of about thirty years has revolutionised the way in which we use , store and transmit information and data . |
| 26 | ‘ Have a cigarette , ’ he says , and as if to persuade me he lights one himself in the corridor . |
| 27 | There 's one it in the . |
| 28 | It featured no film material , no exterior shooting and nothing whatsoever in the way of visual effects — such a department just did not exist in 1949 . |
| 29 | Bluntly : was there someone in the meeting who responded and benefited ? |
| 30 | Is there something in the English soul that wants to bond with land ? |