Example sentences of "[pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom Berenger is an amnesia-suffering crash victim who suspects he has murdered someone in the stylish thriller Shattered . |
| 2 | Most likely there will be someone in the close family or a reliable friend . |
| 3 | For someone in the early stages of mastering Coke throat-burn like myself , this is impressive . |
| 4 | ‘ Put me through to the police office , please , ’ he said to someone in the outer office . |
| 5 | There could be someone in the outside world who is prepared to take over and put money into the club . |
| 6 | ‘ And someone in the Interior Ministry might blow the whistle on you ? ’ |
| 7 | Ideally someone in the ferreting party will be given the task of removing each rabbit as soon as it is caught up . |
| 8 | There was always something for someone in the criminal world . |
| 9 | ‘ We would expect to see him in a couple of warm-up fights , certainly someone in the top 10 , before he fights Mike Tyson again , if that is to happen , ’ said Morris . |
| 10 | ‘ Frank has to prove himself by really beating someone in the top ten . |
| 11 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 12 | Someone in the High Police — probably Fouché himself , we know he 's obsessed with intrigue — sees it as an opportunity to introduce one of his agents into Vienna . |
| 13 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 14 | Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors . |
| 15 | Interestingly , during the same conversation , discussion switches to Merseyside , when Hounam makes it quite clear he believes someone in the Conservative government has intervened to prevent an investigation into a serious instance of corruption . |
| 16 | Read , by someone in the Clerical Grade ? |
| 17 | More of them were the sons or grandsons of someone in the Christian ministry . |
| 18 | And they believe someone in the local community is hiding the killer . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 22 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Back , back we find ourselves in the frustrating and confusing conceptual warp . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 29 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |