Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was seeking advice with regard to the Council 's refusal to rehouse him in suitable ground floor accommodation . |
| 2 | Those who truly love you will want to know the true you in any event . |
| 3 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 4 | As he did so , he was all too aware of the ache and stiffness in his injured arm and leg , threatening to handicap him in any confrontation with an enemy . |
| 5 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
| 6 | For organizations and clubs first timing it in this area Kinloss Canoe Club can always provide an experienced canoeist guide ( usually an instructor ) to join your flotilla and paddle along to give up to the minute on the spot information , or if you wish , to lead on the water , all at not cost , especially on the Findhorn . |
| 7 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |
| 8 | Well I like it but got to use booklet an I erm supposed to hand it in you see ha I 'm going to hand it in next week . |
| 9 | Instead of saying hand it in next lesson . |
| 10 | ‘ If you agree to my helping you in that direction , then we 'll look at this situation again in a few weeks , when you 'll hopefully be in a more stable state of mind . ’ |
| 11 | How much does all this cost you in lost production , lost business opportunities , inefficiency ? |
| 12 | When they gave quite unacceptable displays of dissent , such as Holding kicking down the stumps or Croft deliberately barging into an umpire who had no-balled him , Lloyd did nothing to discipline them in public view . |
| 13 | I hope you will find a holiday to interest you in this programme and will be able to travel with New Millennium in 1992 . |
| 14 | As she had said the pot was a present she did not stop the woman gift-wrapping it in lavish style . |
| 15 | And clearly I would say that rather than to cross it in that column shown to the A sixty four north that Mr shows , it should be the converse and at least a tick , if not two . |