Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be saying something about them in the lectures , not today but next week , and er now which reminds me , who is performing next week ? |
| 2 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 3 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A man as highly educated as Augustine changed his mind about them in the course of his life . |
| 7 | The formal powers of the royal family have diminished as the yardage about them in the newspapers has grown . |
| 8 | I welcomed moves to cut price increases and did not find that they were being done in secret — I read about them in the newspapers and elsewhere . |
| 9 | However , there are several Mira variables which can be found with binoculars when near maximum , and can even show some colour ; I have given notes about them in the pages which follow , but it is rather pointless to go into detail , because long-period variables are the province of the telescopic observer , and estimates made with binoculars are inevitably rough . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | " Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled . " |
| 13 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Is everyone talking about me in the shack ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I had heard her cry for them in the night . |
| 19 | I also continued to help the two people and their father , and did many jobs for them in the night . |
| 20 | The Americans forged ahead not only because they could deploy greater resources , but also because they were more ruthless in seeking out key German experts during the chaos of the German surrender , and in persuading them to work for them in the United States . |
| 21 | Different cultures have their own interpretations of the natural environment and its utility for them in the processes of survival and reproduction . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | " And she brought forth her first-born child , and laid him in a manger , because there was no place for them in the inn . " |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They enjoyed the special places reserved for them in the synagogues which were in full view of the congregation . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |