Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge majority of them lived in rented houses in North Oxford . |
| 2 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 3 | Apart from cleaning each pane , they take photographs of the windows which help them paint in missing images , in keeping with the overall style . |
| 4 | As we have seen , horses have basic physiological and psychological needs which must be met for them to remain in good health both physically and emotionally . |
| 5 | You 've raised me to sit in high places |
| 6 | The oldest tavern is the Vlissinghe , of which mention was first made in 1552 , but there are hundreds of little bars and cafes , many of them housed in olde-worlde buildings that have the Americans squealing with delight . |
| 7 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 8 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 9 | What makes them wait in seedy side rooms for a few moments of dangerous pleasure ? |
| 10 | The men said their employer was thinking twice about sending them to work in nationalist areas . |
| 11 | One consequence of public anxiety is an increasing demand for scientists with the specific skills of chemists , geoscientists , biologists etc , who are aware of the contribution that their own discipline can make to understanding the environment and are sufficiently acquainted with other disciplines to enable them to work in multi-disciplinary teams . |
| 12 | ‘ We try to compensate for missed experiences and help them behave in age-appropriate ways . |
| 13 | Erm , is that okay for that I just have something that I read in New Scientist does everybody take it ? |
| 14 | The ships themselves offer a more comfortable ride these days : of the 16 trips I made in blustery March , only one was anything like rough . |
| 15 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 16 | Yeah i it 's n th that door looks miles away but I mean in actual fact it 's not very far , ever such a strange |
| 17 | Look I mean in actual fact , it 's probably well it should n't be |
| 18 | I mean in other words we 'll now have a proper strategy the Vale of the White Horse , which was always an area of the county where the County Council services to the elderly was poorer than elsewhere . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't threaten me , ’ I whispered in false bravado , ‘ I am a fighting man ! ’ |
| 20 | for a while I was in the Air Force and then I lived in various parts of the country . |
| 21 | When I lived in southern France I used to sit out on the porch and watch the sun go down across the valley . |
| 22 | Sometimes he hit me , sometimes he just threatened me , and I lived in terrible fear of him . |
| 23 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 24 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 25 | I lived in different parts duck . |
| 26 | Between them Caroline and M have every quality I hate in other women . |
| 27 | I can read all the newspapers I want in public libraries . |
| 28 | At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food . |
| 29 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 30 | If only they had asked for Donald Duck , a character I hold in great respect ! |