Example sentences of "[pron] in [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’ |
| 2 | In principle parsons had the advantage , but in practice rectories with cure of souls tended to be the poorer ones , for many of the best were impropriate to their monastic patrons , which in almost every case had ordained a vicarage and endowed it adequately — rarely with less than £5 a year , more commonly £6 — while rectory incomes tended to vary widely . |
| 3 | Even if that caricature were true , which in almost every respect it is not , it would not alter the fundamental issues at the core of the Rushdie affair . |
| 4 | The guard never even knew that he opened the door and locked himself in once the Doctor had gone . |
| 5 | He gestured towards the door , where Hilary Frome was standing , flaunting his fair hair and profile , and looking still more like an illustration of one of Baden Powell 's scouting manuals ; a fine specimen of British boyhood , who in only a matter of a year or two might be imagined assuming the burden of Empire , and administering imperial justice with rod and gun to one or other of the lesser breeds without the law . |
| 6 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 7 | Got me in nowhere the end of the road |
| 8 | Right you take them in there the table . |
| 9 | He has , by way of a build-up , laid out a programme of events which will involve him in both the European and Scottish PGA tours . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him . |