Example sentences of "[pers pn] in the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hated changing in front of others — and this from a man who played rugby with fourteen other men week in week out for years and must have huddled with them in the cramped and corrugated spaces of dressing rooms up and down the country . |
| 2 | She wanted , as the strands of trees drew out , to be beneath him in the bare and leafless brown of a wood . |
| 3 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |
| 4 | Once they took one away from the woodpile and hid it in the stable and the mother searched everywhere , growing more and more distressed . |
| 5 | But then — if we are taking our time and stay to look at the town as a whole , walk around it in the cool and quiet of the evening when the shops are shut , and the traffic has gone home , and we can really see its contours and its bone-structure — other questions begin to arise in the mind , which even the best of guide-books does not answer . |
| 6 | there was about twenty cards and you had to name everything that was on it , order everything , like you usually go , erm that 's it or something and erm you have to learn it in the MAs and MEs and things and all that and then she showed you and you had to take everything on that |
| 7 | At least that 's what they call it in the remote and rugged Star Mountains of Papua New Guinea . |
| 8 | the amount of any deficiency on a current funding level basis , indicating the action , if any , being taken to deal with it in the current and future accounting periods . |
| 9 | I have spent most of the last year in what was once Yugoslavia , much of it in the beautiful and doomed Republic of Bosnia Hercegovina and it has left me scarcely able to think , far less write about anything else . |