Example sentences of "[pers pn] in [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want to think about anything but this , ’ Cora-Beth murmured as her hands caressed his shoulders and moved down his body until , with a little gasp , she held his in her cupped hands . |
| 2 | Ask your volunteers to tell you in which two lines their cards appear . |
| 3 | All who have taught you in their different ways . |
| 4 | How are you in yourself these days ? ’ |
| 5 | I know you like hiking because I saw a photo of you in your little bum-freezers , so we 'll take you up on the moors and then call at Harry Ramsden 's for some fish ‘ n ’ chips . |
| 6 | Perhaps you never ever heard , so wrapped up were you in your own dreams and ambitions . |
| 7 | If you say something to me I check that I have understood your message by saying it back to you in my own words , for if I repeat your own words exactly you will doubt whether I have really understood you . |
| 8 | Disciplines can choose to doubt matters that we in our everyday lives take for granted . |
| 9 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 10 | If I make a black man sweep up my trash , empty my dustbins , wash the vomit from my floor and kill for me in my imperialist wars … well , what do you think ? |
| 11 | ‘ Then let me tell you that you have no right to include me in your sordid games . |
| 12 | The grooms on the train were all younger , thinner and from what I 'd seen of them in their uniform T-shirts less positive . |
| 13 | The poise and capability of these young women was impressive , as was the revelation of the varied opportunities available to them in their VI forms . |
| 14 | Appointees have to fill in monstrous forms providing full details of their financial affairs , listing all their jobs , addresses and trips abroad in the past 15 years , and supplying the names of at least one person who knew them in their various abodes . |
| 15 | Most media professionals appear to know what is expected of them in their various organisations , each of which has different political backers , and the media product tends to be created accordingly . |
| 16 | I washed them , then dressed them in their best clothes , but never new ones . |
| 17 | I certainly preferred them in their stamping days . ’ |
| 18 | The old tight links between banks and firms related to them in their industrial groups have gone . |
| 19 | To fulfil a positive role for a profession , its education and training programme should equip candidates for what will be demanded of them in their future careers . |
| 20 | Doctors also marched : they knew that the new [ unemployment benefit ] scales meant increased difficulties for them in their desperate efforts to protect the health standards of the people against the ravages of poverty . |
| 21 | HERE for Christmas are some lighter offerings , only one of them seasonal but all of them in their different ways highly recommendable . |
| 22 | Will any of those disappointed Berlin front-runners stand a chance , and who would replace them in their respective jobs if they go ? |
| 23 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 24 | The hours of London tailors were fixed by statute , but the journeymen could still complain that the masters called upon them for only half a day , leaving them in their public houses all morning . |
| 25 | Such countries were allowed to buy non-military materials , provided that they paid cash for them and transported them in their own ships ( the " cash and carry laws " ) . |
| 26 | Mr Biggs , an angler for 20 years , said : ‘ Some anglers are a bit unscrupulous and are taking fish from one stretch and putting them in their own waters so they can make big catches . |
| 27 | It helps if you have seen them in their own surroundings and get an impression of the sort of person they are . |
| 28 | I paint the words and leave others to think about them in their own hearts . ’ |
| 29 | Of Charles Hutton : ‘ For the accommodation of such gentlemen and ladies as do n't choose to appear at the public school , I propose ( at vacant hours ) to attend them in their own apartments . ’ |
| 30 | Hincmar puts in a significant phrase when he says that the minores who " confirmed " assembly-decisions did so " not because they were forced to do so , but because they understood them in their own minds and agreed with them " . |