Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sense of inner worth , and the talent for reflecting it in outer forms and appearances . |
| 2 | The other was the search in living tissues for the carriers or agents which determined these properties , i.e. the genes responsible for producing them in successive generations . |
| 3 | He says that the council is obliged by the government to take full responsibility for young offenders — and that includes paying for keeping them in secure units . |
| 4 | ACTOR Clint Eastwood 's fan club has folded — after asking him in vain for a fistful of dollars . |
| 5 | He suffered burns to his upper body after dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight outside the offices of former girlfriend Sandra Sturgiss . |
| 6 | Paul Keywood , 13 , and his 11-year-old brother Nathan saved the little boy 's life after discovering him in freezing conditions wrapped in only a towel . |
| 7 | Mr Behbehanian , his banker , who believed that the British controlled every event in Iran , was still pressing him to repair there and to apologize to the British for insulting them in recent years . |
| 8 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 9 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 10 | I had worked hard while I was on Amantani , reconstructing the bones of my experiences without the satisfaction of cradling them in apposite language . |
| 11 | Beyond the odd after-show beer , theirs is a devotion to the regime of immersing themselves in glorious music and trying to say something pertinent with it . |
| 12 | The men and women of the past saw the same physical universe that we did , but their way of seeing it was quite different ; their way of describing it in written form more different still . |
| 13 | This article does not propose to discuss philosophical , practical , theological or moral questions related to this subject but to take the opportunity of examining it in technical detail , as befits those who practise the science of embalming . |
| 14 | They do not look white in virtue of having something in common ; they have something in common ( their whiteness ) in virtue of looking white . |
| 15 | Why do n't Rico marry her instead of keep her in fancy apartment all these years ? |
| 16 | For example , no amount of arguing by itself will convince anyone of the truth of Genesis , 2 – 3 , but knowledge of the possibility of interpreting it in different ways — which include the symbolic — can help people to think again about an easy dismissal of it . |
| 17 | If there is a problem , it 's that , while all the individual elements make sense , put together they generate an exhilarating overload of 24K sound and post-industrial fury which is in danger of signifying nothing in particular about cyberspace or anything else . |
| 18 | For those thinking of saturating themselves in full-time tuition , a G.I.T. , B.I.T . |
| 19 | That Act also places the onus on the knife carrier to show that he had good reason for possessing it in public . |
| 20 | It did not seem likely that the Sun , at any rate , would have felt any qualms about printing it in full . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm through kissing you in public . |
| 22 | Damn Rune for kissing her in public and making her vulnerable to this barely disguised attack . |
| 23 | SERAFIN : Which you regard as being different from using it in private conversation ? |
| 24 | This means there may be traces of metal in it and caution is advised before using it in marine tanks . |
| 25 | WCS is also useful for testing micro-instruction sequences , before lacing them in read-only storage for permanent use . |
| 26 | Mary Tyrone , perhaps the central character of the play but certainly not the sole source of discord , is a fading beauty trying to find solace from the harsh realities of the external world and internal torment in steeping herself in lost ideals and numbing herself with drugs . |
| 27 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 28 | Why do people take so much pleasure in immersing themselves in warm water ? |
| 29 | The smallness of the demonstration , compared with the Dungannon march , showed the modest scale of the organisers , influence , although McCann is probably right in saying that they made a mistake in starting it in hostile territory . |
| 30 | They are interested in doing it in certain terms . |