Example sentences of "[coord] in [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much of my time is spent designing or in meetings it 's all too easy to forget that this , ’ he gazed around him , ‘ is the purpose of it all . ’ |
| 2 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 3 | She moved round the flat like a whirlwind , and in minutes she was in her light raincoat . |
| 4 | Such an assumption is a plausible one : in booms unemployment is low and in slumps it is high . |
| 5 | Each planner is individually responsible for putting forward suggestions of suitable issues ; in some instances these can be the result of maverick ideas , and in others they are achieved through a more down-to-earth type of thought . |
| 6 | In some cases these are resurfaced using cobbles and in others they remain asphalt , with warning triangles painted on the road . |
| 7 | Passageways were pierced through the walls of houses in some places , and in others they were supported on props along the faces of warehouses and shops , and it was across one of these — a sturdy bridge of timber which was designed to withstand the weight of carts as well as men — that Burun 's party moved without very much opposition from the revellers , most of whom clearly preferred the breadth of the main streets . |
| 8 | This will mean that the waves from the slits will not be in phase with each other when they arrive at the screen : in some places the waves will cancel each other out , and in others they will reinforce each other . |
| 9 | After all , some areas include children with special needs and some do not ; in some areas children have English as a second language and in others they do not ; and , as he admits , teachers have had problems with the tests themselves . |
| 10 | In some quarters it was counter-productive , as it was seen as naked lobbying , and in others it was applauded as a justifiable counter-offensive against an ill-founded doctrine . |
| 11 | Participation and prototyping could be used independently in some applications and in others it may be appropriate to use the conventional approach modified by incorporating these tools and techniques . |
| 12 | ‘ It means , in some ways you are the same , and in others you are different . ’ |
| 13 | In any case , organisations can only be represented by their members , and in partnerships it is individuals who are the active partners . |
| 14 | It has a condensed centre , and in binoculars it looks like a circular fuzz . |
| 15 | Abdominal pain and diarrhoea can also be produced by too much caffeine , and in children it can produce hyperactive behaviour . |
| 16 | He answered earnestly and in words I could understand . |
| 17 | He had his little peccadilloes , the quaint and rather Machiavellian ways to gain his little ends , but he knew me and I knew him , and in essentials he made good . ’ |
| 18 | At once he was contrite , and in seconds he was hurrying her to his car . |
| 19 | It was going like the wind , as it always did , and in seconds it had passed the box exactly on time , rushing on to Bradley Fold No 3 signal . |
| 20 | Jack chucked her her helmet , stowed the emergency gear and fired up his bike , and in seconds she was clinging on behind him as the sirens wailed and they took off through the car park as if the hounds of hell were after them . |
| 21 | Throughout the southern and western parts of India the live snake itself is also the object of veneration , and at a multitude of Cobra shrines and in temples it is fed on milk , sweetmeats , sugar , etc. , nurtured and worshipped as being the bodily vehicle of that higher cosmic power or spirit which is to be approached with reverence and honoured . |
| 22 | The paint was peeling off the stone , and in places it was difficult to pick out what was left . |
| 23 | There is limestone cropping out on the ridge above , and in places it breaks through the thin ground cover even among the trees below . |
| 24 | And in places you would least suspect . ’ |
| 25 | Sampras will finish the year in 81st place , Courier a more respectable 24th , but in doubles they have eclipsed their more renowned contemporaries and deserved to qualify for the Masters when Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were forced to withdraw at the last minute . |
| 26 | But in doubles they have eclipsed their renowned contemporaries . |
| 27 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 28 | It is not easy for any of us to stop and chat to people that we do not know , but in ti me confidence grows . |
| 29 | Well these things may er describe erm sexual behaviour and how to facilitate it , but they ca n't explain it and nor are they really fundamental , because after all okay in mammals males may be the sex defined by the X chromosome , but in birds it 's the other way round in birds it 's the female chromosome and all , in other words , all bird embryos start , start out as male and differentiate into females if they 're going to , whereas in mammals all embryos start out as female and differentiate into males , in so far as those terms have any sense . |
| 30 | Restaurants she did n't mind , but in pubs she always felt too much at the mercy of predatory men . |