Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy merely stared in the direction of the anonymous photographer but his eyes were murderous . |
| 2 | Aymer thus stood in the midst of a ramified genealogical network relating him to many families within the French nobility . |
| 3 | If England felt the recent victory of the armada against Spain to be a confirmation of God 's approval of the English as an important elected and reformed people ( a view Spenser allegorically depicts in The Faerie Queene , Bk V , VIII ) , Spenser , in projecting the English as inheriting mantels of both classical and Christian supremacy , is inflating the need for subjecting Ireland to a moral conquest of epic proportions . |
| 4 | Johnny Kelly turned him inside out , dizzied him , nutmegged him , played with him like a yo-yo and when Ramsey finally collapsed in the mud as Kelly cut inside him , a voice on the terraces said : ‘ Ramsey , tha'rt about as much use as a chocolate teapot . ’ |
| 5 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 6 | The cantata ends with Dido still speaking in the first person . |
| 7 | In addition , States also vary in the amounts paid to successful applicants . |
| 8 | His own critique of Lawrence leads to his climactic denunciation of his own generation when he turns himself prophet of the most orthodox sort , quoting a long passage from Ezekiel also used in The Waste Land . |
| 9 | Rodrigo De Triano also figures in the entries and will take his chance if the ground stays as he likes it . |
| 10 | Not only does Irenius decry the Irish appearance , making the bestial comparisons Spenser also proposes in the above passage , he also dwells on their uncivilised forms of fighting such as attacking suddenly with hit-and-run tactics . |
| 11 | As Gwenellen now worked in the Out Patients Department , which closed at 6 P.M. from Mondays to Fridays and at 12.30 on Saturdays , she was enjoying one of the most envied and regular off-duty shifts in the hospital . |
| 12 | Jean now works in the Design Studio making hand samples for special designs and development work , although occasionally she is still called upon to ‘ colour count ’ . |
| 13 | Right : Sue often sews in the living room , one of the lightest rooms in the house |
| 14 | Dr. Charles Edward Prior retired in the summer of 1900 after serving for forty-five years as medical officer to the workhouse . |
| 15 | He recalls the car trips across Malta with Frankie firmly lodged in the passenger seat . |
| 16 | ‘ The humble man , ’ as Iris Murdoch winningly remarked in The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) , ‘ because he sees himself as nothing , can see other things as they are ’ , which sounds like a snug , confident view of humility , far removed from the self-lacerating anxieties about identity and self-image that mark out much of American fiction , or the radical scepticisms of Sartre and his disciples in post-war Paris . |
| 17 | Knowing the joy of sins forgiven David subsequently wrote in the Psalm 32 , ‘ Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven , whose sin is COVERED . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I hope it sustains him on his long journey into obscurity , because I intend to make sure Michael Stein never works in the travel industry again . ’ |
| 19 | As a bass-player , Edgar definitely prays in the direction of Macca . |
| 20 | The promise of enlarged democratic rights had encouraged the ‘ playful giant ’ to be less submissive than formerly , Arnold thought , and he was beginning to assert with increasing regularity ‘ his right to march where he likes , meet where he likes , enter where he likes , hoot as he likes , threaten as he likes , smash as he likes ’ : Matthew Arnold thus proposed in the late 1860s that crime and disorder should be understood as a consequence of the already evident ‘ permissive ’ disintegration of the stable traditions , and although he was not narrowly obsessed with street violence and rowdyism , nevertheless these were an integral feature of his vision of decay — something which was deeply characteristic of this era . |
| 21 | Ramsay remained in Berwick , in the Governor 's House , meantime , reluctant to leave until he saw Dunbar duly installed in the castle . |
| 22 | There 's war between Russia and Turkey in er eighteen er thirty when Russia militarily intervenes in the Turkish revolt . |
| 23 | Perhaps the same E. M. Nicholson once walked in the wet down Wharfed ale , listening , like us , to tuneful April songsters singing in the rain . |
| 24 | WORLD No 1 Dennis Priestley reached the last 64 of the British Open darts last night but former world champions Bob Anderson and Keith Deller both lost in the third round . |
| 25 | So Mr. Whiting carefully entered in the burial register against little Mary 's name : ‘ … and diged up a gain and Mrs Humphries put in ’ . |
| 26 | Ireland nearly equalised in the second , but were held back and Sandra Colamartino scored her second try for Scotland in the final minutes . |
| 27 | The present Mr Richard Bethell now lives in the rectory sited behind the church , overlooking the park . |
| 28 | Eva even appeared in the Daily Mirror under the headline : PUNK MUM SAYS I M PROUD OF MY SON ! |
| 29 | This room is inhabited by Bardul , a hunchback Dwarf , who is a pivotal NPC fully described in the next chapter ( pp 70–72 ) and in the Profiles section . |
| 30 | With Granby Village conveniently situated in the City centre close to shops and local amenities , it provided an ideal start for a shopping spree to spend the first part of the prize — £100 in cash . |