Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] in an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it was precisely this idea that he promoted when he exhibited the drawings at his Gallery 291 , beginning in late May 1916 , and when he wrote about them in an issue of Camera Work the following October . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the general approach is broadly the same , working with small groups of data and finding links between them in an attempt to build up a coherent picture of the past . |
| 3 | He is also an inch or two taller than I am , Not even the most stupid policeman in the land could possibly mistake him for me in an identity parade , but I suppose I am being too optimistic in assuming that literary critics are likely to be more intelligent or perceptive than an ignorant cop . |
| 4 | The default channel four worked without problems for me in an office crammed with electronics easily blot out my portable FM radio . |
| 5 | He turned and walked away , leaving her standing by the open door of her bedroom , staring after him in an agony of confusion . |
| 6 | In the nearby village of Tashlak about 200 youths armed with weapons and incendiary devices , ‘ many of them in an alcoholic or narcotic stupor ’ , destroyed over 400 houses and motor vehicles as well as several public buildings . |
| 7 | So American railway companies turned on the stations which had impaired their financial health and destroyed many of them in an excess of architectural vandalism . |
| 8 | He straightened up and pulled another chair closer , sitting opposite her in an attitude of relaxed attention . |
| 9 | Izzie threw out her hands towards him in an expression of exasperation . |
| 10 | I just wonder at the necessity of it in an area that already has two golf-courses to its credit . |
| 11 | He might decide to cross-examine both of us in an attempt to detect inconsistencies in our replies , or hope for some slip-up on our part which might enable him to make the correct identification . |
| 12 | Why , one might ask in reply , did Anderson never develop stories that engaged with just these issues , even when Joseph Losey , an American who came to Britain in the early 1950s as a refugee from the communist witch-hunts , could deal with them in an assignment for Hammer . |
| 13 | ‘ She traded with them in an attempt to bring some prosperity to the region — ‘ |
| 14 | They still wore their seaboots , but brought their shoregoing shoes with them in an oilskin bag . |
| 15 | Then Thomson bought The Times late in 1966 and poured resources into it in an attempt to make it profitable . |
| 16 | If you must get into a dilemma then charge further into it in an attempt to gain control of your destiny once again . |
| 17 | Before she could jerk herself out of her shocked paralysis , he had angled his head and driven his ruthless , demanding lips down to collide with hers in an explosion of sensation . |
| 18 | Views were being sought by 30 July on a proposed change in the 1985 Companies Act to exempt from disclosure in client company accounts payments for non-audit services made to companies which have become associates of an audit firm solely because it has gained voting rights in them in an insolvency appointment . |
| 19 | Ronni detached her gaze from his in an effort to hold on to at least some of her displeasure and paused to glance curiously about her as the car sped along a dusty highway through a bright summer vista of parched scrubby fields . |
| 20 | She stands off expectantly to one side , limbs and body ready for an instant gallop or spring , her eyes focused upon you in an attempt to induce an endless repetition of the game . |
| 21 | The sport has given him all this , and could take him from it in an instant . |
| 22 | I 'll give you the address if you want , but I 'm heading back there with some lunch for him in an hour or so . ’ |
| 23 | Even finding food was difficult , as Filon , the Empress 's secretary , discovered when he went to find some soup for her in an attempt to make her eat after nearly 36 hours with virtually nothing : |
| 24 | The uppers had come completely away from the soles of the toes and the treads had been worn so smooth he had taken a hot knife to them in an attempt at a retread ! |
| 25 | The Manor was one of the first houses my father ever pointed out to me in an effort to get me to appreciate architecture . |
| 26 | There is the moment in the Act II pas de deux or Swan Lake where Odette appears to fly away in an arabesque before Siegfried seizes her arms and draws her body close to his in an embrace . |
| 27 | ‘ Political in the sense that if I threw this glass of water over you in an interview , that would be a political act . |
| 28 | I have n't laid eyes on you in an age . |
| 29 | The atmosphere in his office seemed to be closing in on her in an intimacy which she must avoid at all costs . |
| 30 | The registrar rescinded the automatic reference to arbitration on the grounds that the plaintiff needed legal representation in order to present her case properly and the costs burden on her in an arbitration would therefore be unfair . |