Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 2 | Oh well it 's gon na be a right change for us in that room int it ? |
| 3 | This book looks at these two divisions — masculinity/femininity and arts/science — and examines the interaction between them in higher education ; it regards the terms as social constructions , not as givens . |
| 4 | The referee 's first task of a damp evening was to ask Wasps to change their jerseys in order to avoid confusion and they emerged with a far more waspish look about them in black-and-yellow hoops . |
| 5 | However , I have concluded that taking an advert would not represent the best value for money for us in this instance . |
| 6 | I imagine that Silver Star Navigation makes more money for you in one afternoon that G.W. Fashions is likely to make in a year . ’ |
| 7 | It had n't been an easy decision for him in any regard . |
| 8 | That makes me the winner , you the loser ; that 's defeat for you in any language . ’ |
| 9 | It was most kind and public-spirited of you to look after the seat for us in this way . |
| 10 | An accepted notion that aggression is a given characteristic in humans everywhere leads to a search for it in various social settings . |
| 11 | There is no future for them in modern India . |
| 12 | The rebels held their fire till the dragoons were within ten yards [ 9 m ] of them , then replied with ‘ a very sharp , popping kind ’ of volley which did such execution that one bystander ‘ saw daylight through them in several places ’ . |
| 13 | After her death , he 'd moved out into one of the back rooms , and Aunt Ruth — although she supposed she 'd have to stop thinking of her in that way — had taken the other . |
| 14 | It is not an entity or an origin , although the language we use may predispose us to thinking of it in those terms . |
| 15 | Then , only a beat later it seemed to him , shame and anger raced back to take possession of him again , and so overcome by these conflicting feelings was he that he had no consciousness of her in all this , until he became aware , to his surprise , that she was shaking him out of his stupor , bringing him to her again with her mouth and her hands . |
| 16 | On the way you can tell me what 's happened to make you lather up that great horse of yours in such a fashion . ’ |
| 17 | As regards the cyclical view , Momigliano says that the principal upholder of it in Greek historiography was Polybius ( c . |
| 18 | By this time , the Magdalene , the Virgin and others of those closest to Jesus had disappeared , and there is no further mention of them in scriptural accounts . |
| 19 | There is no mention of them in any movement order . |
| 20 | And there were other pressures , including a poignant photograph of her in one of the tabloids surrounded by little hearts published on St Valentine 's Day . |
| 21 | The battle rages on either side of her in two self-contained halves which balance each other closely : a combat ; an archer shooting towards the angle ; a crouching figure despatching a fallen one ; a figure , his head towards the angle , struck down by the bowman 's shaft ; and beyond him , in the corner , gear ( a shield , a helmet ) . |
| 22 | The assignee of a lease fell into arrears with the rent and the landlords brought an action against him in 1941 . |
| 23 | Peter Hancock , a friend in whose company we were cruising , came sailing through the reef behind us in fine style in his yacht Kylie . |
| 24 | Both garments are quite windproof but the jacket needs more than thermal underwear under it in wild weather . |
| 25 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I 'd forgotten you were coming — and we could n't have had tea with you in any case , because Susan 's ill . |
| 26 | Living side by side with them in those forests are a great many extremely interesting creatures that are not unique to the Oriental Region but have much the same lifestyle and some of the same physical characteristics . |
| 27 | She scrutinised the spare figure before her in crumpled navy-blue suit and silk tie , and tried to penetrate his sunken eyes . |
| 28 | An old car which had been driven across in front of the shooting targets was ideal , so we attached fifteen kilos of the explosive to it in different places , fixed up the detonators , trailed fuse wire back several yards and clipped on the incendiary devices which would activate the firing process . |
| 29 | Finishing her coffee , she collected some leaflets from the hall table , and , with the intention of taking them up to her room to read , returned to the lounge to say goodnight — a plan instantly foiled by Feargal 's mother , who seemed to have shed her vagueness , along with her daughter , who had disappeared , and patted the seat beside her in silent invitation . |
| 30 | In important respects , however , his longing was a self-deception , a poetically fruitful means of expressing that sense of loneliness and isolation which had been as much a part of him in Ottery as in London . |