Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.

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1 In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs .
2 ‘ That was my own story I put in the column , ’ said old Eddy Moulton stubbornly .
3 MENZIESHILL secured the Division I title in the Scottish Indoor League for the third successive year when old rivals MIM beat second-placed Kelburne 7-6 at the Dick McTaggart Centre in Dundee .
4 Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less .
5 if I can comment on that Chairman , the erm , the Authority asked for thirty for next month , along with all the other authorities I think in the country , asked for an improvement in the , in the policing the country , and I think people that live in , in Shropshire , and the people that live in other er , parts of the country as well , would have welcomed the increase in the police force this year , but the government decided not to do that .
6 ‘ Once you have a lot of patience I think in the end you 'll get what you want .
7 There 's none none that can say , It 's no good me going in the schools one .
8 ‘ They have all given me a tremendous amount of help , and I know that any help or guidance I want in the future will be there .
9 Even then the kids were calling him Crazy Jake , and I do n't know how many bloody noses I got in the playground , fighting to shut 'em up . ’
10 Last spring I sat in the Windows on the World restaurant on the 45th floor of the World Trade Center , whose twin towers are a New York landmark .
11 Without fail I walk in the house and it goes for me ankles .
12 Strange advert I saw in the week it it was erm
13 ‘ When I think of all those months I lived in the Store , not even knowing about the Outside … . ’
14 For six months I lived in the homes of working-class women , men and children .
15 For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times .
16 I 'll play the secret tape I made in the orchard
17 It said in the E , the Echo I read in the Echo it 's er , Friday 's Echo that the first band comes on at four
18 She 's the sister of the man who owned Grye — the horse I rode in the race .
19 Hawking meanwhile , has a simple explanation for its success : ‘ Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales .
20 The other guideline which was issued was namely that of capital , where the a accepted the general guidelines which appeared in the county papers and as far as this Committee was concerned , would mean the general acceptance of all those items which appear in that the first year of that capital programme , subject to the proviso that the revenue contemplated and the benefits of the capital programme will be considered by Policy Panel in its forthcoming meeting .
21 The sciences were at one time supposed to generalize from observations by a logical operation called induction , claimed to free them from dependence on the merely analogical thinking which prevailed in the mediaeval proto-sciences , and which regrettably remain for the time being indispensable in dealing with everyday problems .
22 Dispensing devices include single dose sachets , measuring dispensers integral with the packaging and graduated containers or measuring caps which assist in the correct dilution of liquids .
23 With Bruce Grobbelaar suspended following his dismissal in Russia a fortnight ago , Souness knows the importance of not conceding an away goal against a side which specialises in the counter-attack .
24 The catalogue raisonné which the German collector Dieter Blume has been compiling since the late 1970s has now reached its ninth volume , and has a general index listing well over 2000 unique sculptures , from Caro 's schoolboy efforts under the tutelage of Charles Wheeler , through his heavily modelled ‘ geometry of fear ’ period when he was Moore 's assistant , to the more distinctive Caro of the welded steel constructions which began in the 1960s .
25 ‘ Such terrors , ’ he whispered , ‘ pale compared to the demons which lurk in the mind of man and feed on the human spirit . ’
26 The main ones were post-war reconstruction , a productivity gap between the USA and the rest which drew American dollars and know-how into Europe and Japan , a sharp upward shift in peacetime levels of public expenditure ( caused by defence needs and welfare transfer payments ) and the absence of general synchronisation in the downswings which occurred in the major economies from time to time .
27 They do not represent a complete list of the ‘ traditions ’ in English curricula nor are they timeless entities ; they simply represent three clear constellations of curriculum styles which recur in the history of the school subjects under study .
28 There was nothing imaginary about the shooting which erupted in the street outside .
29 that workers and managers together are enabled to develop alternative , civilian production strategies for their firms , that investment in R&D ; is shifted from military to civilian purposes , and that the enormous skills and technological investment which exist in the defence industries are harnessed for environmental protection .
30 I challenge Dr McNab to justify his so-called remedies which fly in the face of all that 's known about the pathology of this disease . "
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