Example sentences of "[pron] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom Berenger is an amnesia-suffering crash victim who suspects he has murdered someone in the stylish thriller Shattered . |
| 2 | Most likely there will be someone in the close family or a reliable friend . |
| 3 | ‘ Put me through to the police office , please , ’ he said to someone in the outer office . |
| 4 | There could be someone in the outside world who is prepared to take over and put money into the club . |
| 5 | ‘ And someone in the Interior Ministry might blow the whistle on you ? ’ |
| 6 | Ideally someone in the ferreting party will be given the task of removing each rabbit as soon as it is caught up . |
| 7 | There was always something for someone in the criminal world . |
| 8 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 9 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 10 | Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors . |
| 11 | Interestingly , during the same conversation , discussion switches to Merseyside , when Hounam makes it quite clear he believes someone in the Conservative government has intervened to prevent an investigation into a serious instance of corruption . |
| 12 | Read , by someone in the Clerical Grade ? |
| 13 | More of them were the sons or grandsons of someone in the Christian ministry . |
| 14 | And they believe someone in the local community is hiding the killer . |
| 15 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 16 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 17 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 18 | And I 'd like to explain since we find ourselves in the real world , rather than fantasy land , how we 've approached the subject of client server . |
| 19 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 20 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 21 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 22 | I think all the many ideas which have been proposed , the , the challenging thoughts , they will make a most enormous contribution to the discussions which we all will be having , and I think , not only ourselves in the voluntary sector , but those elsewhere also . |
| 23 | We were grateful that skilful programming precluded any of us from finding ourselves in the wrong session ! |
| 24 | The contempt is his in the ridiculous sentence for the loss of two young lives by someone intoxicated by both drink and drugs . |
| 25 | No , his , his in the right place I suppose in the event of any thing happening are n't you . |
| 26 | Well his in the Australian airport . |
| 27 | Still nobody in the chemical industry put two and two together . |
| 28 | ‘ Nobody in the present cast is in the race , ’ wrote Gordon Gow , ‘ with the single exception of Walter Matthau who deadpans beautifully as the miser Vandergelder and even gets away with his preposterous volte-face in the telescoped conclusion . ’ |
| 29 | The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves . |
| 30 | Thanks to the operation of Murphy 's Law relating to parents , they were coming downstairs hand-in-hand just as Jo 's mother walked in the door ; nobody in the whole room could have missed the flash of alarm in Lorna Lewis 's huge , upswept , blue eyes when she saw her elder daughter coming downstairs with a boy . |