Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 2 | A fortnight ago , the Norwich Union East Champions lost to Redbridge and Ilford , who Chelmsford have beaten this season , but form would count for nothing in a derby game , he insisted . |
| 3 | ‘ Such conduct was clearly not acceptable for someone in a position of authority in a public company . ’ |
| 4 | It is all too easy for someone in a position of influence to think they are there simply by virtue of their own ability . |
| 5 | Over by the volleyball court a crowd of older children gathered to look at postcards of Scotland ( always an icebreaker , particularly if you can find a picture of someone in a kilt ) . |
| 6 | A winter-flowering cherry , planted in memory of someone in a place I can not visit to water regularly , bit the dust last spring , but a replacement seems to have become established and even had a few blossoms this winter . |
| 7 | Mugging of one in a car , you know |
| 8 | Noises were continuous , chirrups of unimaginable creatures , the sudden flush of something in a bush , the beating of wings . |
| 9 | A wooden kitchen table with some crocks on it , a car battery split long ago , three chairs and a broken clothes horse , a pile of something in a corner that could have been a tramp 's bed , or , indeed , a long-dead tramp . |
| 10 | In a hospital you never really see the face of anybody in a uniform , just the uniform . |
| 11 | This is subject to an overriding provision that nothing in the relevant Rule or in any order or direction of the court made by virtue of it authorises or requires the doing of anything in a country in which service is to be effected which is contrary to the law of that country . |
| 12 | But after about twenty paces , when she had forgotten that he might still be looking , the shoulders drooped , her footsteps slackened , and she walked like someone in a dream . |
| 13 | It was an understood thing that Mr Joe , Sir , as he was now — and that was hard to take in — was still in shock , for he walked about like someone in a dream and would stand staring in front of him for minutes on end . |
| 14 | His helmet seemed to burn with a faint silver flame , the folds of his cloak drifted round him like water , and his eyes were cold and lost like someone in a dream . |
| 15 | She almost cried out in shock as she saw Ana moving quickly across the old court , drifting like someone in a dream . |
| 16 | She was already beside the door , and pivoted like someone in a dream in response to his call . |
| 17 | It makes me look all grown up — you know , like someone in a film or summat . |
| 18 | ‘ Why are you talking like someone in a novel ? ’ |
| 19 | I had been safe , hiding in a house like someone in a tomb , only alive in dreams . |
| 20 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 21 | When the lift stopped she yanked the gate back and stepped out like someone in a hurry . |
| 22 | She 'd flattened herself against the outside wall like someone in a spy movie . |
| 23 | I made him undo my hands , he was like someone in a trance , and then I undressed him and I undressed myself . |
| 24 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 25 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
| 26 | It looks real old and special , like summat in a museum or summat . |
| 27 | Prince Richard approached then and invited her to dance with him , and she smilingly accepted , feeling like one in a dream . |
| 28 | Hard fingers encircled his arm and haled him out of the room , and he went like one in a dream , unable to resist but ready for some treacherous pitfall to open under his feet at every step . |
| 29 | Through the long ride , through the noise and confusion when they reached their destination , through the hurried ceremony that followed almost immediately , during which she moved and spoke when so directed like one in a trance . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's just like something in a film , ’ she said . |