Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sensed the subtle change in her , which was possibly betrayed by the firm manner in which she gripped the hand that moved towards her skirt waistband . |
| 2 | His courage and exploits were legendary , and his crews were said to have unbounded faith in him . |
| 3 | ‘ I have complete faith in you . ’ |
| 4 | Nor was the thought that he alone might hold the key to the mystery the sole component in his strangely elated state . |
| 5 | There were in fact great risks in starting a new town , or at least in investing money in it . |
| 6 | And why did the impact of his presence provoke such an undeniable response in her when , earlier , she had felt that she had everything under control ? |
| 7 | So these people that had little private shops in them days did well because when the people came to the lodges it all the commodities were bought to as well as them . |
| 8 | He points out that our veins have one-way valves in them . |
| 9 | But it was the coming night that seemed to press down on Ruth ; there was a strange fear in her that the sun , if it sank this evening , might never rise again . |
| 10 | There was no possible future in it . |
| 11 | I mean the the policy as proposed er does n't have any any particular figures er specific parameters in it . |
| 12 | I will be lacerated with drink tonight and , although the replay will be very difficult , the eternal optimist in me says we 've got a chance . |
| 13 | It is basically a single very wide village street , with some sturdy and impressive old houses in it , dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 14 | But sometimes if we 've got the wrong fuse in it wo n't blow and it will continue to feed the electric current through to the heater or whatever piece of electrical apparatus it is , until such times as we have a fire situation . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's the Scottish part in him , ’ said her husband , nudging her . |
| 16 | A bleedin' varmint in me place . |
| 17 | And what did you think of that first one then ? funny words in it . |
| 18 | Intellectual snobbery : he dismissed the bookshelves of the manse upstairs as ‘ rather a lady 's library , with some Latin books in it by chance ’ . |
| 19 | And she meant it , for she liked her college room , she was even mildly proud of it , and the thought of entertaining Clelia in it did not alarm her , though she had a deep aversion to the notion of entertainment , and had never in her whole three years at University embarked on the ritual tea parties or more ambitious sherry parties that mark the social life of such establishments . |
| 20 | There is a blood poison in America ; you can idealize the place ( easier now that Europe is so damd shaky ) all you like , but you have n't a drop off the cursed blood in you , and you do n't need to fight the disease day and night ; you never had to . |
| 21 | ‘ What no-one can deny is that I have Scottish blood in me , and I have always known it was there ’ , he said . |
| 22 | erm because they enjoyed the , there are a few funny lines in it you know and they enjoy the , the visual amatory of these people performing it , but to themselves to actually understand it they need to know which artist it was , yeah |
| 23 | he had a Honda Civic engine in it ! |
| 24 | ‘ I believe I have two more years of top-class rugby in me and I want them to include a return to the England team . ’ |
| 25 | There was an old lady in it , but she quit at five to eight . |
| 26 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |
| 27 | It 's that same adhesive — it looks as if it will have to be withdrawn ; there 's definitely some harmful irritant in it . ’ |
| 28 | new reconditioned engine in it |
| 29 | Since that moment the hold of the general theory on the imagination strengthened as each new successful test enhanced confidence in it and as its potent implications were gradually worked out . |
| 30 | In both cases there is a very clear roll pattern , but with conspicuous defects in it . |