Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have all felt the frustration of dealing with institutions and bureaucracy — receiving the institutional brush off , the failure to generate a spark of interest or concern , knowing that nothing will be done and nothing change in response to your grievance . |
| 2 | Everyone dresses in yellow . |
| 3 | Yet nothing has in reality contributed so much to free the press from any control . |
| 4 | We talk casually of someone drowning in work or drinking themselves to death long before a terminal illness shows itself or their suicidal drive is detected . |
| 5 | She felt a bit like someone caught in quicksand , whose every turn only succeeded in further compounding the difficulties . |
| 6 | The nature of excuses in crime and of equity in contract is , however , so particularistic and so dependent upon the facts of the case that it strains credulity to imagine someone seeking in advance to bring his case under such categories . |
| 7 | Whatever Beryl believes or pretends to believe about her brother being mugged , he was in fact deliberately murdered by someone lying in wait for him on the scaffolding . |
| 8 | The situation is the same if someone walked in front of the car and the driver had no chance of stopping . |
| 9 | When someone remarked in surprise at the speed with which she had obtained her demobilisation , Teddy replied mildly in her soft voice , ‘ But I 'm married , dear ! ’ |
| 10 | Someone yelled in panic , ‘ It 's the rozzers ! ’ |
| 11 | When a vacancy arose within this group of social workers in 1983 it was decided to appoint someone specialising in work with under fives with special needs . |
| 12 | There was n't a sound , yet she was convinced that close by in the darkness someone lay in wait . |
| 13 | Certainly there are daily actions that help someone to stay in recovery just as the daily wearing of spectacles or contact lenses helps to overcome the effects of short sight . |
| 14 | I have never had anyone query this before , but someone did in class last year . |
| 15 | SOMEONE , SOMEWHERE , must need a helping hand ! someone engaged in rebuilding of an aircraft must need skilled help . |
| 16 | The answer is that we are prepared , in circumstances that are not particularly unusual , to allow that someone does in fact have knowledge when that person is so far from certain that he would not claim the knowledge himself . |
| 17 | This is a post for someone qualified in Community & Youth work with wide experience . |
| 18 | If someone dies in hospital the health authority may give the certificate to the registrar who attends the hospital but , again , someone must attend the registration office . |
| 19 | If someone dies in hospital , they may rest in the hospital mortuary , or the funeral director will arrange for the body to be taken to the chapel of rest . |
| 20 | As someone working in television , I learned as I went along . |
| 21 | Everyone believed in liberalism but no one was actually for it — such was the view of one ‘ lively socialist ’ after the election of 1929 . |
| 22 | If it had to finance that by raising its own taxes , Scotland might become a socialist state along Albanian lines with high taxes , centralised planning and everyone living in council houses and enjoying the beauties of the socialist system in its most untrammelled form . |
| 23 | Just you wait until somebody falls in love with me and comes to live here , then it will be off with your heads , your stupid nodding heads she snapped . |
| 24 | somebody farts in assembly . |
| 25 | Is there any way you can see these things being made such as the horn somebody working in horn for instance ? |
| 26 | A Eurovision spokesman hit back : ‘ If everyone sung in English it would destroy the idea behind the show . ’ |
| 27 | Everyone turned in surprise to Iris , who had sat bolt upright in her seat throughout the interview , replying in her own brand of verbal shorthand to the questions that came her way . |
| 28 | Ingenuity can sometimes suggest ambiguity or obscurity where none exists in fact , and if the instant case were to be thought to justify the exercise of combing through reports of Parliamentary proceedings in the hope of unearthing some perhaps incautious expression of opinion in support of an improbable secondary meaning , the relaxation of the rule might indeed lead to the fruitless expense and labour which has been prayed in aid in the past as one of the reasons justifying its maintenance . |
| 29 | Lord Oliver of Aylmerton commented that ‘ ingenuity can sometimes suggest ambiguity or obscurity where none exists in fact , and if the instant case were to be thought to justify the exercise of combing through reports of parliamentary proceedings in the hope of unearthing some perhaps incautious expression of opinion in support of an improbable secondary meaning , the relaxation of the rule might indeed lead to the fruitless expense and labour which has been prayed in aid in the past as one of the reasons justifying its maintenance ’ . |
| 30 | 3. something given in return ; punishment or reward . |