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Example sentences of "[pers pn] in an [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Most people kept their papers in tobacco tins ; one man kept his in a biscuit tin , and one shaikh stored his in an old suitcase .
2	The following chapters explain in general the opportunities open to you in an average agency .
3	So brace yourself for events which may seem puzzling at times , but which will eventually straighten themselves out , although they may leave you in an exhausted state .
4	A mule will carry you in an easy day 's ride from the rim to the very bottom of the Canyon .
5	You will sometimes find that if your employer acts towards you in an unsatisfactory way , he is in breach of his implied duty of mutual trust and confidence .
6	Any agency which places you in an unviable or potentially dangerous position could be accused of negligence by delegation , and so it is equally not in their interests to place you inappropriately .
7	Can I interest you in an aerial photograph of your house ? ’
8	I 'm sorry , I 've put you in an invidious position .
9	He told her : ‘ It 's hard to think of you in an attractive way — you 're my friend 's wife . ’
10	‘ This does n't put me in an embarrassing situation , it puts Ian Wright in one .
11	You put me in an embarrassing position . ’
12	‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview .
13	Do you think you could pull me up and then point me in an easterly direction once we 're outside ?
14	It ai n't funny , y'know , gettin' a steamroller to come up and suffocate me , and me in an unwell condition .
15	‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration .
16	‘ The police took me to prison without a change of clothes , put me in an awful cell , I was amazed that I was accused . ’
17	‘ You 've put me in an impossible position , ’ Modigliani said angrily .
18	She glanced at me in an odd way .
19	Sue now weighs 8st 3lbs ( 52 kg ) and tells me in an accompanying letter that her weight loss and subsequent new figure has completely changed her life in every respect .
20	However , to go on justifying ends by further ends will involve me in an infinite regress unless I arrive at a terminus in something that I do for its own sake .
21	He first tried to talk to me in an English pub .
22	They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks .
23	Even before I had learned to walk my eldest sister used to dump me in an orange box on the pavement next to Granpa 's pitch just to be sure I could start my apprenticeship early .
24	When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns .
25	With the tenderest of smiles , he proferred my watch to me in an open palm .
26	‘ We 're not going to pay skilled workers $18 an hour to clean phone booth ’ , he says to me in an aggressive tone of voice .
27	On a June night in 1746 , she disguised the haughty Prince as her Irish maid , ‘ Betty Bourke ’ , and went with him/her in an open boat from Benbecula to the seat on Skye of Sir Alexander Macdonald .
28	The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 .
29	He further decided that she had not established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place them in an intolerable situation , and he ordered their return to Australia pursuant to the provisions of article 12 of the Hague Convention .
30	He submits that matters regarding their welfare can only be taken into account on the exercise of discretion under article 13 if they establish the criterion to be found in article 13 ( b ) , i.e. , that there is a grave risk that their return would expose them to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place them in an intolerable situation .