Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] in [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trees , corn , grass , cabbages would all be anthropomorphised , so that ‘ for instance in trees I see expression and soul , so to speak . |
| 2 | For aches in limbs she would hand them Epsom salts . |
| 3 | To follow the motion of atoms in molecules it seems that the time resolution of current techniques may be sufficient , although the development of femtosecond electron diffraction ( Zewail ) should extend ultrafast measurements to molecules not observable by spectroscopy . |
| 4 | So , what are the benefits of additives in foods we commonly consume ? |
| 5 | Whether that shame is yet moving them to have an impact on the men who they see perpetrating this sort of behaviour in colleges I do n't know , but certainly some of the undergraduates I have spoken to feel very embarrassed that this is the portrait of male behaviour that 's being perpetrated . |
| 6 | In the first group session the counselling method is registered in the course tutor 's notes ( Menary , 1986 ) by the explanation : ‘ This session aims to get participants to consider the subject of alcohol in ways they had not thought of in the past ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 7 | We will give the new authorities greater responsibilities — for example , over education , health , and planning — and freedom to ensure the delivery of services in ways they think best . |
| 8 | I think we will continue to have a degree of volatility in markets we 've not experienced previously and I think the way the market maker has to interpret his role now is such that we will never get the sort of fine tuning that the old jobbing system could provide . |
| 9 | of seed in tins I remember Lucy |
| 10 | From his first home with Mary in Canonmills he would take their mongrel dog , Penny , to the nearest open space which was a coalyard , a spur off an old railway . |
| 11 | ( After discussion with staff in schools it was agreed that the checklist was an inappropriate means of analysis for a satirical fable such as Animal Farm . ) |
| 12 | In the many visits I paid in the course of promoting these activities I again found the kind of awareness of what was new in literature in places I had least expected ; and when in the autumn of that year The Idea of a Christian Society was published , it was much more successful than Eliot hoped . |
| 13 | She is never punctual or on time in arrangements she makes , and is arrogant , muddling and patronising in the extreme , and quite one of the most utterly tiresome busybody quasi do gooders style people I know , time-consuming , a total joke and nuisance , certainly no threat which is I think how John thinks I view her . |
| 14 | Again , among undergraduates in universities we find only 9 per cent of the fulltime places in engineering and technology taken by women , yet they fill 69 per cent of those in language , literature and area studies ( as table 4.4 shows ) . |