Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a hand-tooled Mexican handbag with me that day in court . |
| 2 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 3 | Letterman tells me that casting in Paris is going well . |
| 4 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 5 | The end was in sight for a number of them that day in Chorzow : Alan Ball , sent off , unable to contain his frustration ; Ramsey , the most successful of England 's managers , sacked within a year . |
| 6 | Their reward must be such as may give them that rank in society which so important a trust requires . |
| 7 | Younger neighbours may be glad to ‘ sit in ’ for one evening a week too , if you can give them some service in return , such as looking after their child for a morning while they go shopping , although of course there are people who will help with no expectation of reward , if you make your need known to them-perhaps more of them than you imagine . |
| 8 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , she 's found them some rooms in Tewkesbury , and she wants Hayley to go back . |
| 10 | ‘ I played for my junior school in Barnsley then progressed through the various Yorkshire representative teams . |
| 11 | I was cowering in my usual corner in Boots ' chemist 's shop in Scarborough , where I had developed the habit of a weekly weigh-in to keep a morbid eye on my progressive emaciation . |
| 12 | Once he said to me , ‘ You should go and see my adoptive son in Zvenigorod . |
| 13 | In 1976 with the Tories gaining votes I left my friends , my lover , my job and my political life in Ireland . |
| 14 | Before I accept the Secretary of State 's olive branch and damn my political career in front of my colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench , will he clarify at an early stage in the Standing Committee the position about nurses in Wales , England , Scotland and Northern Ireland who take courses and then return to their own districts ? |
| 15 | They were my greatest friends in Benedict 's , and had rooms on either side of mine . |
| 16 | My greatest moment in Rugby League came much later , in 1989 . |
| 17 | Now I am off to write my sonorous senselessness in prose . |
| 18 | ‘ They can do what they like for me — blow the place up for all I care — I 'll be off to my mobile home in Lytham St Annes before long . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ My dear brethren in Jesus Christ . ’ |
| 20 | As I was an officer , they devised a special treat for me : they raped my wife and my ten-year-old daughter in front of me , three of them to each , sticking their penises into each of the gateways . |
| 21 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 22 | A penthouse here in Mayfair , a beautiful home in Montreux , a villa in Mustique , a mansion in Malibu and of course , my old home in Melbourne , which is , of course , now a National Trust Museum . |
| 23 | I 'm going back to my old employers in London , though . ’ |
| 24 | I went to my old school in West Ham recently to talk to the children there and er the master to me that they 've got a bomb trail . |
| 25 | We were talking about my old friend in Wapping earlier , Michael Ryan . |
| 26 | I liked it when Kaptan described his moment of deliverance , the point at which I tried to shoot my old comrade in arms in the back , then the desperate fumble to see who 'd get their shots off first . |
| 27 | Thus , I speak even of my theatrical experience in terms of reference to printed texts — witnessing a quarto Hamlet or the uncut Folio text . |
| 28 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 29 | I was generally pressed for time in my few day in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well as it deserved . |
| 30 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |