Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun sg] [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 | 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' . |
| 5 | She stopped abruptly , suddenly afraid to say the words aloud in case they were words he would n't want to hear . |
| 6 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 7 | You have brought life where there was uncertainty … perhaps in part you have made me know myself , understood before by you . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps in time we can perform a similar service to you . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Perhaps in future you 'd better save that sort of chat for people who know me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Just as in her earlier fiction Brooke-Rose fused discourses , so in Textermination she fuses characters by making them ( and their discourses ) interact . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Or had they been afraid to do so in case it drew attention to what they were up to ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ he agreed , ‘ but I thought I 'd just say so in case you got the wrong idea . ’ |
| 19 | So in winter he kept a large torch to hand , in case . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So in total we have an extra cost of 3,000kg * £5/kg = £15,000 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So in return we shall specify in more detail what we expect from you . |
| 25 | And so in conclusion I looking at it and the exhibitions we 've made to you and to the county in the course of the consultation draft is that this county does not need this policy and that it is in fact an insidious and repressive kind of policy that it contrary to national planning guidance and should not be included in the alterations . |
| 26 | erm they have not in the past proved themselves to be the most capable o of people to er to support these things so in conclusion I 'd say that we must put this as part of a shopping list , the shopping list is on there er it is something to bring London and the South East of England which includes Hertfordshire and to make it an economic and viable area and look at the evidence of the other cities and I hope that er all of you will support the motion . |
| 27 | Er , we 've flattened the one hand by the inclusion of Thames ' own cash of twenty seven million , but on a year and year comparison the erm , the dollar , the sterling value of our dollar debt was fifty two million pounds higher , so in fact we have reduced net debt on , at an operating level year on year . |
| 28 | So in fact we dropped the alleyway in nineteen ninety one , that was the line of the alleyway , the horizontal line along along there . |
| 29 | Yes , in fact we shall be going again this week , and I have no doubt , once again this week , we , we 'll be overlapping into another bay , but er unless we use the coach car park , er which means that we could n't take children who were n't really able walkers , so in fact we would be discriminating against our own children , er I really ca n't see what else we can do . |
| 30 | There was a problem with gilt funds about three years ago , and T S B ran up against the problem of falling gilt yields and trying to maintain the , the flow to the investor , which they did , but th they failed to tell the investor that they were having to erm sell gilts and er trade under market value , so in fact you reduce the fund , but there are halfway stages , and I mean at the moment I can get round about eight percent , plus on , on erm er offshore funds . |