Example sentences of "[verb] in a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you assumed this public culture reflected political actuality you would be living in a fools ' paradise , the reverse side of Thatcherland . |
| 32 | ‘ The last creature who told me that is living in a green-grocer 's shop now . |
| 33 | I was living in a friend 's attic workshop and in need of something to take my mind off my troubles . |
| 34 | It 's like living in a dog 's kennel ! |
| 35 | This is Sigmund Freud 's , as presented in a study Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten . |
| 36 | ( i ) A member of staff ( including a partner or director ) other than a solicitor who holds a current practising certificate may only be named in a practitioner 's publicity , including stationery , if the status of that person is unambiguously stated . |
| 37 | Her body had been sewn in a stag 's skin and the stone coffin sealed with lead and iron and bound with a heavy chain . |
| 38 | The second erm is is and perhaps is related in a way er in the air to air weapons where erm in older missiles have had what is known as sort of bore sight capability where they go in the direction of the aircraft . |
| 39 | It is those objects from distant days that are in some way in unexpected contrast to what we use today that are most effective in establishing in a reader 's mind the ambience of those times . |
| 40 | Her paper The Eidoli and the Angeli is not a suitable one to read to the little study group which meets in a neighbour 's house : the group , it transpires , is actually in touch with the world of spirits . |
| 41 | It is not a matter for our grandchildren or even our children , but it is to be decided in a fortnight 's time . |
| 42 | Polly thrust it back into her bag , embarrassed at being caught doing things more properly done in a ladies ' cloakroom , and furious at her own embarrassment . |
| 43 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 44 | Taking the last first , there are three villages which are so close together that with any allowance for coalescence , even the one kilometre which I believe was taken in the original look at this problem by the County Council , there would be no possibility of fitting in a settlement er of the size proposed . |
| 45 | Volk & Welt , one of the few major publishers of the former East Germany still on the books of the Treuhand , has finally been privatised in a token DM1 buyout led by its managing director Dietrich Simon . |
| 46 | Another witness reported Drew looking in a butcher 's shop window at 6.11 . |
| 47 | AN X-ray doctor failed to spot a three-inch piece of glass lodged in a patient 's chest . |
| 48 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 49 | I 'm a wise woman writing in a woman 's magazine . |
| 50 | In R v East Sussex CC , ex pR [ 1990 ] FLR 837 the President of the Family Division supported this view and said that judicial review should only be used in exceptional circumstances to challenge a case conference decision which did not result in a child 's removal from home . |
| 51 | Nevertheless to consider the National Curriculum as a list of subjects runs the danger of expressing it in a way which over-emphasises information and a narrow range of skills at the expense of the development of a full range of socially useful skills , attitudes and ideas , which is usually the concern of interested parents and can even be seen in a child 's view of the purpose of education . |
| 52 | She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her . |
| 53 | It is the basis for a range of ocean-going ferries and cargo vessels that Japanese shipbuilders hope to sell in a decade 's time . |
| 54 | Though cynics would see their union as a match made in a PR 's wildest dream , there is no doubting that their intentions towards each other are honourable . |
| 55 | ‘ You none of you know how he died in the workhouse and was buried in a pauper 's grave ? ’ |
| 56 | The body is fingerprinted and buried in a pauper 's grave on Hart Island . |
| 57 | That was the end of the entry , but I was able to discover that Luiza had died in the municipal hospital of Bom Jesus and was buried in a pauper 's coffin in an unmarked grave wrapped only in a hospital sheet . |
| 58 | On the spectator 's left ( fig. 127 ) a Lapith drags down a Centaur who with right hand against the ground resists the pressure while his left is still buried in a woman 's hair and drags her down with him as she claws at his beard with back-stretched hand . |
| 59 | is it , is it he can answer that question , is it he 's job to look in what er , happened in a year 's time . |
| 60 | Midsummer Night 's Dream , I. ii , ‘ a proper man as one shall see in a summer 's day ’ , DS 18 . |