Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 2 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 3 | BBC television 's reporter on the Prime Minister 's election tour , Mr John Simpson — an embodiment of the communicating class — wrote about them in the Spectator with special rage . |
| 4 | A man as highly educated as Augustine changed his mind about them in the course of his life . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 6 | If your client is in a trade , say baking , then you must deal with his trade journals , Clients are sensitive enough about what is said about them in the consumer press but when negatives appear in their own trade journal , the sparks fly at your next client meeting . |
| 7 | " Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled . " |
| 8 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 9 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 10 | Is everyone talking about me in the shack ? |
| 11 | Now from my observations of these debates I 've not heard anybody on this council saying council debates that there is no role for this local authority or any other local authority there is no role for them in the provision of residential care or any extension of residential care because some of our residential care is getting very , very close to providing a degree of nursing care . |
| 12 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 13 | I had heard her cry for them in the night . |
| 14 | I also continued to help the two people and their father , and did many jobs for them in the night . |
| 15 | Cries could be heard from the stairs as the policemen tried to make their way up to the landing , the remaining boys making it as difficult as possible for them in the hope that their brother would get away . |
| 16 | And she brought forth her first-born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger ; because there was no room for them in the inn . |
| 17 | And she brought forth her first born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger. because there was no room for them in the inn . |
| 18 | " And she brought forth her first-born child , and laid him in a manger , because there was no place for them in the inn . " |
| 19 | So the black-backed gulls wait for them in the air in front of the cliffs , wheeling and circling on the up-draught created as the wind , blowing in from the sea , is deflected upwards . |
| 20 | For example , how did these so-called professionals come to get involved with us — and what is at stake for them in the way they define their relationship to us ? |
| 21 | ‘ What he 's saying is that they play away quite happily , not realizing what 's in store for them in the rest of their lives . |
| 22 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 23 | If hundreds of thousands of Mickey Mouse fans choose to celebrate their preference together in a small area set aside for them in the north of France , then the rest of the country can breathe a sigh of relief and head somewhere else . |
| 24 | During his time in Belfast , Mr Brooke , and also the Irish government , have repeatedly told Sinn Fein that there can be no place for them in the peace process unless there is an abandonment of the campaign of violence . |
| 25 | He has organised concerts for them in the past . |
| 26 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 27 | I understand you acted on behalf of local residents in the old docklands area of Cardiff and secured protective clauses for them in the Act of Parliament which now permits the Cardiff Bay Barrage to be built . |
| 28 | They found Carrington and Grant waiting for them in the saloon . |
| 29 | Customers can choose from the wide selection of knitwear on offer or have a design made specially for them in the style , size and colour of their choice . |
| 30 | There are thousands and thousands owned by foreigners , foreign corporations or companies whose nominees — lawyers , banks , etc. — acted for them in the sale . |