Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] in [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother got it wrong when I was six , but her mistake did serve to galvanise me in later years and I became a successful businesswoman , outwardly independent and self-sufficient . |
| 2 | They find that , when associative learning occurs , there are also characteristic changes in the appearance and number of these synapses ( changes which , as it happens , are rather analogous to those we find in the chick ; I shall describe them in greater detail in the next chapter ) . |
| 3 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 4 | Even his close confidant Manning described him in later years as imprudent . |
| 5 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |
| 6 | PLAYER : ( Acknowledging the description with a sweep of his hat , bowing : sadly ) You should have caught us in better times . |
| 7 | Figs 3 and 4 were generated by a flexible PostScript generator , show , which can either summarize the entire data-set on a single page , or show it in greater detail spread over several pages . |
| 8 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 9 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 10 | The odds are that a relationship that engenders such trust in infancy will continue to engender it in later childhood too , and who is to say at the end of it all that one period was more crucial than another in bringing about the final result ? |
| 11 | During the course of er this meeting you will hear from the Chairman and the Honorary Treasurer and we may well cover an enormous amount of the grounds that is relevant to you as commodores , members and officers of the Association and it might be worth , I am going to avoid what he 's trying to avoid most of that area because I believe they cover it in greater detail and give you more of an opportunity to find out precisely what 's been going on . |
| 12 | This is the particular issue for debate at this meeting , and I do not presume here either to pre-empt discussion or anticipate what I will say later when I consider it in greater detail . |
| 13 | I can not promise a debate on it next week , but perhaps he will find his own opportunities to discuss it in greater detail . |
| 14 | We will return to the contrast between internalists and externalists in 9.3 , and examine it in greater detail . |
| 15 | ‘ It will be a bit of a wrench , but the England team manager 's job is the top one in the business and if I had n't accepted it , I might have regretted it in later life . ’ |
| 16 | Or , to take another example which will occupy us in later chapters , there is a similar snag to the dispute between Rational Actor and Bureaucratic Politics models of national decision-making . |
| 17 | I certainly heard it in later years . |
| 18 | Reform was ‘ a flash of lightning illuminating us for one moment only , to leave us in greater darkness ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ New ’ animals may be subject to ‘ new ’ disorders , and ‘ better ’ , more disease-resistant animals may tempt AgriBusiness to keep them in worse conditions . |
| 20 | Although we have tried to express these scientific impulses fairly , we hereby give notice that we intend to question them in later chapters . |
| 21 | Constance had also fought her mother all the way when she was young and her personality was still forming , and then had somehow abandoned her in later life , when the need to fight had gone . |
| 22 | A polite and considered approach , avoiding outright confrontation , will stand you in better stead . |
| 23 | I ca n't wait around to try and engage him in further conversation because my bowels suddenly decide they want to wake up too , and I have to make a dash for the nearest bar and the toilets . |
| 24 | You , you can set as your tar as one of your targets to er you know just t t to sort of make it in smaller steps that you will have appraised two of your staff in th in |
| 25 | And yet he took no steps to reintroduce it in later editions . |
| 26 | ‘ Charles and Diana — It 's Really Over ’ ran the headline in the daily Parisienne , above photographs showing them in happier days . |
| 27 | Let me but get my hands on one of that grisly crew , and you 'll put me in better fettle than all the rest in the world . |
| 28 | And it occu It seemed to me therefore that really one could only consider this level o at a strategic issue by looking at the quality of the existing landscape and it seems to me , if the proposition is that you should locate a new settlement to the erm North in the Ryedale sector , er of Greater York , then you 're effectively turning planning on its head because I think the usual approach is to try and steer development to less attractive areas rather than put them in better quality areas . |
| 29 | Give her some of her favourite grilled kidneys , it may put her in better humour . ’ |
| 30 | But it is worthwhile to reiterate that , in a sense , every book published about recent history is of value as a source and the conventional ‘ official ’ documentation does not necessarily occupy in recent history the commanding place which its comparative isolation in a sea of illiteracy gives it in earlier epochs . |