Example sentences of "[pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 32 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 33 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 34 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 35 | If they 'd murdered four thousand Danuese but said three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine had been killed by ourselves in the Danuese Civil War , then it meant they had killed only one . |
| 36 | And I 'd like to explain since we find ourselves in the real world , rather than fantasy land , how we 've approached the subject of client server . |
| 37 | Meanwhile , manager Billy Bingham was happy with his team 's victory on a rain-sodden pitch in Vilnius but admitted : ‘ We put pressure on ourselves in the second half . |
| 38 | Back , back we find ourselves in the frustrating and confusing conceptual warp . |
| 39 | Er to work on the key issues which are common to all options for the future , er such that th we can put ourselves in the best position to secure future business success . |
| 40 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 41 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 42 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 43 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 44 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 45 | When George Abbott , the Archbishop of Canterbury , accidentally shot dead a gamekeeper , Andrewes , as a member of a commission of enquiry , urged his colleagues ‘ Brethren , be not too busy to condemn any for uncanonicles according to the strictness thereof , lest we render ourselves in the same condition . ’ |
| 46 | I think all the many ideas which have been proposed , the , the challenging thoughts , they will make a most enormous contribution to the discussions which we all will be having , and I think , not only ourselves in the voluntary sector , but those elsewhere also . |
| 47 | We were grateful that skilful programming precluded any of us from finding ourselves in the wrong session ! |
| 48 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
| 49 | And here give up ourselves in the full bent To lay out service freely at your feet , To be commanded . |
| 50 | ‘ He was never yours in the first place . |
| 51 | The contempt is his in the ridiculous sentence for the loss of two young lives by someone intoxicated by both drink and drugs . |
| 52 | No , his , his in the right place I suppose in the event of any thing happening are n't you . |
| 53 | Well his in the Australian airport . |
| 54 | Still nobody in the chemical industry put two and two together . |
| 55 | ‘ Nobody in the present cast is in the race , ’ wrote Gordon Gow , ‘ with the single exception of Walter Matthau who deadpans beautifully as the miser Vandergelder and even gets away with his preposterous volte-face in the telescoped conclusion . ’ |
| 56 | The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves . |
| 57 | Nobody wanted to push the struggle any further ; nobody in the 1740s imagined that a fight to the death was at hand . |
| 58 | Thanks to the operation of Murphy 's Law relating to parents , they were coming downstairs hand-in-hand just as Jo 's mother walked in the door ; nobody in the whole room could have missed the flash of alarm in Lorna Lewis 's huge , upswept , blue eyes when she saw her elder daughter coming downstairs with a boy . |
| 59 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 60 | Nobody in the Olympic 400 metres hurdles final could hold a candle to Gunnell 's superb technique , which put her head and shoulders ahead of the field . |