Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Members for Birkenhead and for Halifax ( Mrs. Mahon ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield referred to my part in the events of 1990 . |
| 2 | ‘ I could leave my bike in the bushes , ’ Virginia argued . |
| 3 | I took a shorter way than Sapt and when I reached the moat , I hid my horse in the trees , tied my rope round a strong tree and let myself down into the water . |
| 4 | The gill is easy walking and leads up on to Crag Hill , which is near my home in the Dales , so one day , throwing work to one side , I cadged a lift down Barbondale to Blind Beck Bridge and set off in bright sunshine up the track to Bullpot Farm and Bull pot of the Witches . |
| 5 | May I , through your august columns , apologise to all those climbers who have tried to locate MOT-While-U-Wait-Garage Crag , Selside , Cumbria , credited as my discovery in a Lakes Report . |
| 6 | When Caroline was home on holiday from her boarding school , my eyes used to light up when from my place in the choirstalls I saw her arrive at church . |
| 7 | I placed my fish in a 36″ aquarium with a Fluval 4 at one end to create a fast current ( with no attached spray bar ) . |
| 8 | There was summat about my head in the stars and walking on clouds in it . |
| 9 | Then I remembered ; today I would walk with my head in the clouds , it seemed . |
| 10 | So I figured I 'd put up the five g's , get my name in the papers , maybe ease off the pressure a little . |
| 11 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 12 | ‘ A young girl got attacked last week , my mate in the police told me . |
| 13 | An early major event in my life in the Boys ' School was the celebration of Empire Day on May 24th , which has now been renamed Commonwealth Day . |
| 14 | He was my room-mate in the days when your school was used as a sort of summer camp for magicians and he actually did disappear one day and we all thought he must have gone home . |
| 15 | With no Changing the Guard today , we had a lovely relaxed morning — a drive down to the Guards Depot to see a couple of my friends in the Guards Dog Unit — German Shepherd Guard Dogs . |
| 16 | Sometimes I read the name of my Maker in the newspapers . |
| 17 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 18 | ‘ I have ended up with my children in a Women 's Hostel , still black and blue after the battering I got from the drunken unfaithful bully I was stupid enough to marry . |
| 19 | Thus a note might reach the union committee asking for exemption from the quarterly meeting ( to avoid a fine ) such as the one from Mrs K. who in 1922 said " I wish to be exempt from Society meetings as I have to attend to my children in the evenings " . |
| 20 | When I put my hands in the pockets I felt bank-notes . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I know there were criticisms of my form in the internationals against Canada and South Africa . |
| 22 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 23 | There was an angel watching over me , as someone had once predicted in my childhood when she read my fortune in the tea-leaves , in my cup of white china with the gilt shamrock on the rim and in the centre of the saucer . |
| 24 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 25 | Do n't you think I 'll have enough of that coming my way in the weeks and months and years ahead ? |
| 26 | That would help to show the universal determination of all parties in the House to achieve an answer that will provide a proper future for British agriculture and enable me at least to be able to tell my companions in the negotiations that there are things that matter so much to us that we will sit there until we achieve them , even if it means that we will sit there for many more months to come . |
| 27 | ‘ Of its mode of nidification ’ , Gould wrote of the nightjar he found on the lower Namoi , ‘ I can speak with confidence having seen many pairs breeding during my rambles in the woods … |
| 28 | At the Saulnier farm ( 6 Commando area ) I washed my arm in the cattle trough but could not get rid of the smell . |
| 29 | ‘ I spend my time in the bookies or sat at home in front of the telly . |
| 30 | I have to say I must have spent most of my time in the toilets . |