Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | When I put my hands in the pockets I felt bank-notes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 … |
| 7 | The largest of them lives in the rivers of Japan . |
| 8 | Franchising is growing fast — and an increasing number of companies are expected to franchise their operations in the years ahead rather than expand in traditional ways . |
| 9 | The companies , which were ordered to close down their operations in the reserves , have been found by Friends of the Earth to trade with several British importers including James Latham and Richard Burbridge . |
| 10 | When he smiles , he looks slightly goofy , the skin pulled right over his cheeks like the face children make by sticking their fingers in the corners of their mouths . |
| 11 | Together , by getting their fingers in the rat-holes , they managed to tug up a few feet of rotten chestnut boarding , tindery at the edges . |
| 12 | The recently formed AD ( ANCIENT DYKES ) group hold their meetings in The Women 's Centre , Broughton Street , Edinburgh . |
| 13 | BRACKNELL Tigers and Livingston are Britain 's survivors in Europe following their wins in the Champions Cup on Thursday night , but the week 's honours went to Oldham Broadway Celtics , who made a glorious exit from the Korac Cup with a 98-91 win over Monaco in France . |
| 14 | However , on her promotion last year as an executive consultant Laura had decided to concentrate more on her work in the office — analysing financial trends , and advising her private clients on their investments in the futures market . |
| 15 | Running downstairs we found that my eldest sister , Gertrude , who had been helping Mum , had caught her fingers in the rollers . |
| 16 | ‘ She still manages to stick her fingers in the swabs with monotonous regularity , then she says ‘ Ooops ! ’ , grins and chucks them out and opens another pack . ’ |
| 17 | One possibility seems to be a corridor effect in which improvements in the links between major centres ( the ‘ grands poles Europeens ) reinforce their dominance at the expense of regions in between . |
| 18 | As the Turks moved out , their estates in the rural areas were bought by Serbs and their houses in the towns were occupied by diverse groups of immigrants , who also took over their occupations . |
| 19 | Reciprocally , such families may receive financial remittances from their migrating members once they have established themselves , and those left behind may derive prestige in their local community from the successes of their sons in the cities or the new countries . |
| 20 | Rights , which constitute the groundwork of the State , inhere in individuals by virtue of their being members of society : ‘ A State which neglects them fails to build its foundations in the hearts of its citizens . ’ |
| 21 | In appreciating the contemporary cultural mosaic , therefore , we must appreciate its foundations in the accommodations between communities and their environments in the creation of social structures as ‘ machines for living ’ . |
| 22 | Many people had to leave their homes in the clothes they were wearing and had lost everything . |
| 23 | Here , they are taken by the ocean currents into the Gulf Stream , in which three years pass as they slowly drift towards Europe and make their homes in the rivers , lakes and pools , far distant from their place of birth . |
| 24 | But most of the foreign exchange , gilts and swaps dealers still had their eyes on the ball , rather than their heads in the clouds of political speculation . |
| 25 | But by this time he realised that the best opportunities came to those who kept their feet on the ground — not their heads in the clouds . |
| 26 | The Profitboss does not tolerate consultant academics , people who have their heads in the clouds with the latest theories and who peddle new-fangled pseudo-scientific systems . |
| 27 | Tapeworms are also members of the group , though they look very different for after burying their heads in the walls of their host 's gut , they bud off egg-bearing sections from their tail end . |
| 28 | It has fewer benefits to dispense than previously , yet is faced with a plethora of interests , each of which is unwilling to moderate its demands in the interests of all . |
| 29 | This will enable the current coaches , now established as a so-called cluster , and their successors in the years to come , to identify and monitor the development of present and future Canada players as they work their way up through the system . |
| 30 | But despite the biggest backbench revolt that this Parliament has seen , the Government has dug its heels in a refuses to acknowledge the public call for action . ’ |