Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was damp , she was sore from scrubbing with the shower mitt , her hair hung in rats ' tails . |
| 2 | The final accolade came in Barnes ' closing speech , when he announced that never in his experience , ‘ and I think rarely if ever in anybody 's experience , has a local group without legal representation appeared and presented their case so consistently over an enormously long inquiry such as this . ’ |
| 3 | This man combined many of the jobs of parish priest , village policeman , eponymous magistrate ( Fornara 90B , the Rharmous accounts ) and even collector for the inland revenue : the debtor Strepsiades in Aristophanes ' Clouds is bitten by a ‘ demarch under the bedclothes ’ ( line 37 ) , and demarchs collected the eisphora , a capital tax . |
| 4 | This name would also be entered on the documentary bill of lading deposited in SeaDocs ' vault . |
| 5 | TRUE to his promise , Frinton Lawn Tennis Club manager David Taylor has secured some of the true greats to star in exhibition matches in Veterans ' Week . |
| 6 | Social service departments in general , and social workers in particular have no wish to interfere in peoples ' lives unless there are difficulties , of which inability to cope with current circumstances is the most obvious . |
| 7 | My father travelled in ladies ' underwear . |
| 8 | I emerged from the bathroom a half an hour later in a cloud of Amplex Aerosol avalanched in Boots ' 365 Talcum . |
| 9 | The Hebrew scriptures imposed a law not to be binding on Gentiles , yet ( for all its moral imperfections ) not to be set in sharp antithesis to the new and more excellent way of love embodied in Jesus ' life and teaching . |
| 10 | Consider the serenity achieved in Sophocles ' two Oedipus plays . |
| 11 | A substantial chapter on deixis occurs in Levinson 's Pragmatics ( 1983 ) , and still the most thorough analysis occurs in Lyons ' Semantics : Volume 2 ( 1977 ) . |
| 12 | An article by him advocating a national Nonconformist congress appeared in Hughes ' Methodist Times on 20 February 1890 and was written at Hughes ' request . |
| 13 | A REPORT on the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development — the Earth Summit — has just been published with its cover laminated in Courtaulds ' material Clarifoil . |
| 14 | Students of local history may very occasionally need to take into account the difference between Greenwich Mean Time and Summer Time , but those who are researching the histories of maritime ports from which merchant or royal naval vessels sailed will almost certainly have to pay regard to the system of reckoning found in ships ' log-books , particularly between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 15 | If I was of a mind to stop washing and shaving and go live in a bus and drive around the country shitting in farmers ' fields and killing their sheep and being hassled by the pigs and pilloried by the Daily Star and generally being ‘ free ’ , this is the record I would choose to do it to . |