Example sentences of "in [pos pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I bet 'e wo n't like Mr Cousins lookin' in 'is carpet-bag . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , 'e do n't believe in tin clocks , only in 'is pocket watch , ’ said Mrs Goodbody . |
| 3 | I reckon 'e 's ate new-born babies in 'is time , so I was 'ighly relieved that we parted on friendly terms , as yer might say . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , 'e does 'is work in 'is livin'-room , ’ said Mrs Beavis . |
| 5 | It 's all those punches ter the 'ead 'e 's 'ad in 'is time . |
| 6 | When I fink of all that time 'e jus ' sat at the front door wiv 'is 'ead in 'is 'ands , I shudder . |
| 7 | I must 'ave bin sittin' there fer over an hour an' then this geezer comes out an' beckons me in 'is office . |
| 8 | I sat in my cell expecting to be called out for execution at any moment . |
| 9 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 10 | The same description would not , in my view , be grossly inapplicable to the present ruler of Poland — which has , as it happens , a smaller population than the Ethiopia of chronic famine . |
| 11 | In your case , straight-forward , women ; in my case not straightforward , not women — but , non-male , except anatomically . |
| 12 | I intended to ‘ exploit ’ my popularity in my country in order to impose upon my readers a book centred on the Ashkenazi civilisation , history , language and frame of mind , all of which are virtually unknown in Italy , except by some sophisticated readers of Joseph Roth , Bellow , Singer , Malamud , Potok , and of course yourself . |
| 13 | In my suggested audition pieces , I have not included any of the well known speeches from such modern classics as Look Back in Anger , by John Osborne , or Roots , by Arnold Wesker although these plays are revived frequently in many theatres . |
| 14 | That this essence of Englishness was actually there in my possession … |
| 15 | People had seen me in my drama school finals . |
| 16 | Michael Denison 's best known film role was Algie in The Importance of Being Earnest and he appeared with Dulcie in My Brother Jonathan . |
| 17 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 18 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 19 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 20 | Never in my life , he wrote , have I known so exactly what step to take after the step I am in the process of taking , and then what step to take after the step I will take after the step I am in the process of taking . |
| 21 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |
| 22 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I think that this needs saying , quite calmly and objectively , in this commentary , which will not spare me when I have done badly or in the wrong spirit or left half-done , but will not either , in a spirit of false modesty , gloss over those things in my life and work which have been a success , even , mildly , a triumph . |
| 24 | As in my little essay , The Death of Images . |
| 25 | Had n't reckoned with weight of glass in my calculations . |
| 26 | That I can do most of my work in my suit without getting dirty . |
| 27 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 28 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 29 | It was in my car , I said . |
| 30 | In my early work , he wrote , I in a sense dispensed with middles . |