Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have chosen Vaughan because there has already been some analysis of deixis in his poetry — notably by Roger Sell in his article " The unstable discourse of Henry Vaughan " ( 1987 ) . |
| 2 | The CGT failed in its attempt to separate worker and student contingents . |
| 3 | Suspicion kindled in her breast . |
| 4 | Koerner examines how artists such as Durer and Baldung Grien registered in their paintings changing attitudes to self in sixteenth-century Germany . |
| 5 | BRITAIN 'S Julia Snell failed in her bid to repeat her silver-medal start to the freestyle skiing World Cup in Tignes , France . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're sorry that we teased you — and I promise to wear my blue headband tomorrow , ’ Sophie whispered in her ear . |
| 7 | Kelly got in her car and headed east towards Feltham . |
| 8 | This seemed reasonable , so reluctantly Sophie got in his car and sat in silence as he drove out to the main road . |
| 9 | Sunderland failed in its bid to win City Challenge cash last year when NorthEast rivals Newcastle and Middlesbrough were successful . |
| 10 | Since then a number of availability studies have been carried out — Mansbridge summarizes in his 1986 article . |
| 11 | Greene King failed in its attempt to take over Morland ; it now owns a 29.32% stake in the Thames Valley brewer . |
| 12 | Nutty stopped in her tracks . |
| 13 | What contribution to profit does Judy make in her personnel job ? 0 What would happen to profit if Judy 's job were eliminated ? |
| 14 | As Gassendi insists in his Objections to Descartes , there is no need forever to be distrustful of them . |
| 15 | Nigel Lawson revealed in his memoirs just how close he came to introducing it when he was Chancellor in 1984 . |
| 16 | Sophie drew in her breath . |
| 17 | The panoply of scholarship Mr Till unfolds in his analysis of the relationship of words to music , bringing in most of the Enlightenment philosophers and writers , is awe-inspiring , as is his knowledge of the reforms of Emperor Joseph II and the whole contemporary Viennese scene . |
| 18 | Edouard drew in his horse . |
| 19 | However , the aftermath of the French Revolution suggests that Ireland 's fate might have been equally unpleasant had Humbert succeeded in his mission . |
| 20 | Petrovich found in her interviews with the children , that if she started off asking them about " God " , as a word which they had learned , the majority of them said that God was a man . |
| 21 | When Charles Kingsley writes in his description of the sewer of ‘ the slow sullen rows of oily ripple … sending up … hot breaths of miasma ’ , he is being quite specific ; but in Dickens 's Little Dorrit the word is virtually symbolic of confusion , as the pervasive fog is in Bleak House . |
| 22 | There was a pause ; Melissa overheard mutterings of ‘ shocked ’ , ‘ sick ’ , ‘ screamed ’ , as Sophie scribbled in her notebook . |
| 23 | It was titled ‘ Umbrella ’ and the song ‘ And Hiding Away ’ , to which Allan referred in his letter , is in fact the first track on the album . |
| 24 | One of the earliest objections to Kant lies in his combining an objective view of ethics with the view that morality is properly expressed in imperatives . |
| 25 | In such poems as ‘ Break of Day in the Trenches ’ , ‘ Returning We Hear the Larks ’ , and his masterpiece , ‘ Dead Man 's Dump ’ , Rosenberg succeeded in his intention of writing ‘ Simple poetry — that is where an interesting complexity of thought is kept in tone and right value to the dominating idea so that it is understandable and still ungraspable . ’ |
| 26 | André whispered in her ear , and Alyssia dragged herself away from her thoughts . |
| 27 | The houses of Hohenstaufen ( Ghibellines ) and Welf ( Guelphs ) both pressed their claims to the royal crown but as already described , Frederick Barbarossa succeeded in his claim . |
| 28 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 29 | As Simone de Beauvoir argued in her book The Second Sex , man has constructed woman as ‘ the Other ’ , as the one who is not oneself . |
| 30 | We start with a brief summary of the ‘ classical ’ economics which J.M. Keynes attacked in his book , The General Theory of Employment , Interest and Money in 1936 . |