Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 2 | I believe Surere encouraged him in this . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't know Albie involved you in this . ’ |
| 4 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 5 | Decorum demanded it in any case . |
| 6 | Rain caught her in both arms , held her tight , and knew it was only her grasp which kept the woman upright . |
| 7 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 8 | The plaintiff encouraged him in this behaviour . |
| 9 | Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at . |
| 10 | To Selborne it was no more nor less than " robbing the church " and many Unionists saw it in such simple terms . |
| 11 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 12 | Jesus put it in these words , ‘ If any man would come after me , let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. , |
| 13 | He felt it would soon be the moment to make a move , and her behaviour left him in little doubt as to what sort of move it should be . |
| 14 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 15 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd sure like t'have pulled him in that night . |
| 17 | A further humiliation for Bush was the news that maverick Independent Ross Perot headed him in several states . |
| 18 | The snows of Mount Hermon streaming northwards , the blue vales of Galilee , the brown waters of the Litani encircled us in that little cyclone , We could be seen , for above the sound of the gale we heard the clatter of bullets tossed by the wind against the ramparts . |
| 19 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 20 | But Judge Karl-Heinz Schmoll ruled : ‘ The policy covered him in all situations in life . ’ |
| 21 | But God wanted us in that society and we now have a choice . |
| 22 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 23 | The Sunday Times summarized it in these terms : ‘ Iraqi whirlwind campaign ends in war of desert trenches . ’ |
| 24 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 25 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 26 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 27 | We both altered so much that when we went back to Middleton , Dave Fielding saw it in both of us , ’ she says . |
| 28 | Taking a proof of this or his own shaded drawing , the artist completed it in those light washes of colour that are so peculiarly his own ; and this tinted impression was handed as a copy to the trained staff of colourists , who , with years of practice under Ackermann 's personal supervision , had attained superlative skill . |
| 29 | I was beginning to think that we 'd missed the boat , even though we knew in our heart of hearts that the Lord wanted us in some form of full-time capacity . |
| 30 | And the third was as a confessor , because he knew that many souls valued him in this work . |