Example sentences of "[adv] in a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Harry ! ’ she said suddenly in a child 's wail of reproach , and fell on her knees by him , flinging her arms round him . |
| 2 | A row was all in a day 's work for her , and at the end she 'd feel pleased with herself and at peace with the world . |
| 3 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |
| 4 | For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key . |
| 5 | And here it is : I have proof that Neil Kinnock once spent a night of passion alone in a miner 's cottage with a well-known writer . |
| 6 | Erm and come back to you , perhaps in a week 's time and you talk me through those recommendations . |
| 7 | Les Petits Riens survives only in a copyist 's score , making the identification of Mozart 's contribution problematic . |
| 8 | But not for long , for they make another pledge by tying themselves together in a cat 's cradle . |
| 9 | Writing is n't usually a social activity , except when you 're working on exercises together in a writers ' group — and even then you 'll find that you do most of your writing alone , in whatever space and time you can carve out for yourself . |
| 10 | The sheep wisely leave it alone and most bugs do , too , for it contains two chemicals which , when mixed together in a creature 's stomach , make cyanide . |
| 11 | The whole House will be very relieved to know that such a matter is not entirely in a Minister 's hands . |
| 12 | Suddenly he is more relaxed and confident and those horrible little worms of self-doubt which are perpetually burrowing away in a golfer 's head are banished for a few holes , anyway . |
| 13 | Variety thought that the ‘ fact that so many of these gags depend on ill-concealed misogyny soon stifles the laughs that flowed more easily in a pre-women 's liberation era . |
| 14 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 15 | Getting older may be ‘ less profoundly wounding for a man ’ , because throughout life being physically attractive counts more in a woman 's life than in a man 's , and for women especially beauty is identified with youthfulness . |
| 16 | One feels that anything to do with card indexes is more in a woman 's line . ’ |
| 17 | Another , upon which it depends and which usually arises early in a child 's educational career , before the extrinsic rewards have become so tangible and external , is his or her teacher 's public comparison of one student with another . |
| 18 | The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools . |
| 19 | So very early in a horse 's life it establishes eating habits , and the horse may be very reluctant to change these habits when it is mature . |
| 20 | Early in a baby 's development she perceives her body and the external world as an undifferentiated unity ; the baby can not distinguish herself as subject from external ( objective ) reality . |
| 21 | Thus , further down the chain , demand for low-time pilots and ex-military aircrew has slumped and is not expected to pick up again until the pool of laid-off pilots has been used up , probably in a year 's time . |
| 22 | You would reach your market more economically in a women 's magazine where the percentage of readers who knit is known to be high . |
| 23 | This explains the emergence of out-placement counsellors , consultants who specialise in aiding out-of work executives to sell themselves effectively in a buyer 's market . |
| 24 | It may be that some of our roles conflict ( e.g. parental responsibilities might conflict with commitments at work ) or different groups might impose conflicting expectations in relation to one particular role ( e.g. in a man 's role as shop steward the managers might expect him to calm disputes while his work-mates might demand that he never compromise with the bosses ) . |
| 25 | Anderson will be anxious to counter the slump in form before the Blues ' primary target this season , the Smirnoff Irish League Championship , gets underway in a fortnight 's time . |
| 26 | It 's the only day , really in a women 's life where everybody at her and she 's made to feel like the most special person on this earth , so I 'd highly recommend it . |
| 27 | In addition Humphrey sees the aesthetic response as a ‘ pay of ’ for efficient and successful information processing ; it is a reward for the kind of mental activity that is really in a person 's own best interest . |
| 28 | ‘ As you wish , ’ said the seal , diving deep in a dragon 's breath of bubbles . |
| 29 | On the other hand , he believed implicitly in a father 's financial duty towards his children . |
| 30 | ( And never do this in court , not even in a magistrates ' court ! ) |