Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she remained stubbornly in place he grabbed her abruptly by the elbow , and she started back in fright , her eyes widening in alarm . |
| 2 | He had been batting steadily and was well set , and since England , 328 ahead with three wickets left , were apparently in control they should have used all the time available to build up their score . |
| 3 | Be careful not to leave your hand on their body for too long in case it is grabbed . |
| 4 | Er that 's not necessarily in Scotland it could be somewhere else but we er pay you travelling and your and your hotel . |
| 5 | Especially in maths I could n't stand the competitiveness of seeing the ‘ clever boy ’ ( there 's always one in every class ! ) do the exercises miles before everyone else and understanding things quicker than everybody which just reinforced the idea that I did n't have a ‘ mathematical brain' . |
| 6 | She stopped abruptly , suddenly afraid to say the words aloud in case they were words he would n't want to hear . |
| 7 | Alone in Aberdeen she 'd thought about him night and day , had longed with all her heart to be in his arms just once more , had cried herself to sleep night after night only to have her dreams filled with visions of him . |
| 8 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 9 | I 'm not sure it 's a bad thing for a specialist to have to be able to explain his problems in terms which erm and intelligent and reasonably informed layman can understand , but erm I think perhaps in Britain we go too far erm in not integrating the two and putting them together and erm this is somewhere where the French in many cases have got the balance a bit better . |
| 10 | You have brought life where there was uncertainty … perhaps in part you have made me know myself , understood before by you . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps in time we can perform a similar service to you . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps in time they 'll turn more of their songs into group showcases , as they did on Cash 's Big River , but as the Highwaymen rode into the sunset , they 'd succeeded in that most country of missions : they 'd kept their pride intact , and their boots on . |
| 13 | Paul saw this as a reproach to himself , as if he had not shown enough interest ; perhaps in fact he had not ; his heart had never been in it . |
| 14 | Again unfortunately the only thing lacking was people , but perhaps in Monday we picked a bad night to sample the crack as locals tell me the place livens up as the weekend approaches . |
| 15 | Perhaps in future you 'd better save that sort of chat for people who know me . |
| 16 | Mr Szuluc says his parents are pensioners who ca n't afford to clothe him , so in frustration he decided to stage a protest at his local DSS office in Stroud , stripping off in front of the other bemused claimants , and handing his borrowed clothes back to his brother . |
| 17 | Just as in her earlier fiction Brooke-Rose fused discourses , so in Textermination she fuses characters by making them ( and their discourses ) interact . |
| 18 | So in London they 're bound to have looked at my file — which gives some of my personal techniques while abroad . |
| 19 | So in July he announced to the American public : " we intend to honour our commitments " ( to West Germany and West Berlin ) and called for a build-up of American forces . |
| 20 | And anyway he 's got to pretend that he 's the man of the house so in case they think you 're on your own . |
| 21 | That is saying something and , indeed , there are those closer to him who suggest that he really believes he has got the ball ‘ on a piece of string ’ at the moment , but hardly dares to say so in case it tempts fate . |
| 22 | Or had they been afraid to do so in case it drew attention to what they were up to ? |
| 23 | It was then Dexter detected an underlying tension : Blanche became bored and wanted to leave , but was reluctant to do so in case she gained a reputation as a straight-laced bore . |
| 24 | ‘ No , ’ he agreed , ‘ but I thought I 'd just say so in case you got the wrong idea . ’ |
| 25 | So in winter he kept a large torch to hand , in case . |
| 26 | So in fairness I got this , excuse the expression , arse about face in the sense that I ha I thought prioritize these and pensions were , was this and that 's why you were exploring the needs for the second appointment . |
| 27 | So in total we have an extra cost of 3,000kg * £5/kg = £15,000 . |
| 28 | Erm , now we , we can explain to you in more detail , but the finan I think Mr 's already said to you that the financial savings er , from such moves are not as productive as they were , so in sense we 're driven by strategy here , we 're driven by the fact that there is a private and there is an independent sector that is there , there is alternative methods of supply . |
| 29 | Of course the field of view is 3-dimensional , so in principle we need only state three of these four coordinates , but there is no point in discarding information and so we may as well keep them all . |
| 30 | As in the United States , so in Britain it was an outbreak of violence that dramatically brought the plight of the inner cities to public notice . |