Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 2 | The cluster I found particularly er important and so like yourself the Aldershot method and structured thought patterns er the cluster was important er because as you say when people have got nerves they need to get some basic guidelines for overcoming the problem er we all tend to put our hands in our pockets and stand rooted to the spot and all the rest of it but there are ways of overcoming it , it 's just a matter of practice erm the Aldershot method is er obviously a very effective method erm if you get into the habit of doing it in threes er erm you see every day you use the news at ten news at ten analogy obviously |
| 3 | France will find the challenge of defending the Davis Cup even more difficult than that of winning it in 1992 . |
| 4 | So erm so give it a go anyway and see what happens erm and it 's no great hardship to have to y'know kind of do it in two or more sets I would n't have thought y'know it 'll it 'll probably still work . |
| 5 | What do you do , sort of buy them in fifty packs at Sainsburys ? |
| 6 | Thank you for providing them in 1990 . |
| 7 | Innocent laid an interdict on Norway because of the " royal " policies of its ruler , Sverre , who was resisting papal influence and the reception of the canon law and he reproved the archbishop , Eric , for removing it in 1204 , after Sverre had died and the fugitive bishops had been recalled . |
| 8 | Prudential has poured more than $1 billion into Pru-Bache since acquiring it in 1981 . |
| 9 | After having amassed around 200 hours on the Corsair since purchasing it in 1982 , the novelty of flying this beast has not diminished : ‘ Today I feel that every flight in the Corsair is as exciting as the first , mainly because with the Corsair you can not afford to be complacent , as the aircraft will sometimes bite back , so I have to be alert all the time while I am flying ’ . |
| 10 | Daimler 's inability to turn around AEG since buying it in 1985 , after AEG had already itself failed to stem heavy losses , has damaged morale at the company . |
| 11 | As New Zealanders sifted through the ashes of their World Cup defeat they were beginning to realise that after forming a recipe with which to win the Cup in 1987 they just as surely set up a system which would lead to losing it in 1991 . |
| 12 | ‘ People will slowly discover they can put down a five per cent deposit on a house without losing it in six months , ’ he said . |
| 13 | This win stretched Auckland 's record to 50 consecutive defences of the shield since winning it in 1985 . |
| 14 | It tackles this small set of problems and issues by addressing them in two localities — the old port of North Shields and the new town of Cramlington . |
| 15 | Using a skewer , make two holes in the carrot by pushing it in one side and out through the other . |
| 16 | Her picture on the cover of Elle magazine , when she was still a schoolgirl of fifteen from a strict bourgeois family , led her to Roger Vadim , who let her out of her birdcage by marrying her in 1952 despite parental reluctance . |
| 17 | Quality and efficiency in grain distilling will be secured by concentrating it in two locations , at Leven and Glasgow , and investment in malt whisky production will focus on 27 strategically important distilleries . |