Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 2 | As we have seen , horses have basic physiological and psychological needs which must be met for them to remain in good health both physically and emotionally . |
| 3 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 4 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 5 | What makes them wait in seedy side rooms for a few moments of dangerous pleasure ? |
| 6 | Erm , is that okay for that I just have something that I read in New Scientist does everybody take it ? |
| 7 | Yeah i it 's n th that door looks miles away but I mean in actual fact it 's not very far , ever such a strange |
| 8 | Look I mean in actual fact , it 's probably well it should n't be |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't threaten me , ’ I whispered in false bravado , ‘ I am a fighting man ! ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes he hit me , sometimes he just threatened me , and I lived in terrible fear of him . |
| 11 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 12 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 13 | At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food . |
| 14 | We therefore find ourselves living in disputed territory . |
| 15 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 16 | If only they had asked for Donald Duck , a character I hold in great respect ! |
| 17 | That is the right way forward for this country , the European Community and the wider Europe which I hope in due course will join the Community . |
| 18 | These cards I filed in alphabetical order , and I noted on each one details of new purchases and quantities . |
| 19 | I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire . |
| 20 | In the first six lines he asks when that love which is incarnated in Jesus will " com to comforth me " " bryng me owt of care " " gyf me " , and sets these verbs of power potentially activated on his behalf with his own sense of motionless deprivation : " I stand in still mowrnyng " . |
| 21 | I acted in good faith . |
| 22 | The WISE Vehicle Programme has been in operation for many years now , following the launch of the original WISE I bus in WISE Year 1984 . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought I would never be another Thomas Hardy so I 'd write romance , using places I know in real life for inspiration , ’ she says . |
| 24 | The metope is the earliest I know in monumental art , but the splendid little cup with Theseus and Sinis ( fig. 99 ) anticipates it . |
| 25 | We still cherished the idea of putting together a ‘ counterblast ’ ; but I perceived in due course that we had begun to differ regarding the objective to be demolished . |
| 26 | ‘ There are multiple problems due to the fact there is a legal vacuum in many cases and little to distinguish between a genuine cause of fraud and someone buying in good faith . |
| 27 | ‘ Then I came south to Royston but Queen Margaret and her party had already returned to London to collect all their possessions so I followed in hot pursuit . |
| 28 | ‘ There must have been at least a dozen of them , ’ I lied in mock modesty , ‘ and I doubt if four of them will live to greet tomorrow 's dawn . ’ |
| 29 | I believe in innate inequality . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I believe in human destiny . |