Example sentences of "[coord] in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally and in total conclusion I must tell you what happened when we took Adam to a specialist to find out if he had a particular familial complaint . |
| 2 | The Report declared that ‘ the country can not afford this wastage , humanly or economically speaking , ’ and therefore ‘ in human justice and in economic self-interest we ought as a country to give that help ’ to working-class youngsters who under-achieve at school . |
| 3 | ‘ the transfer on its face was a perfectly regular sale and as against third parties taking a legal estate for value and in good faith it was within the ostensible authority of Mrs. Steed and can not now be repudiated against such third parties . |
| 4 | I know what that man owes to Harry , and what to me , and I have kept the account , and in good time I shall take what is due . |
| 5 | But in politics and in real war he was a child , incapable of concentrating for long . |
| 6 | They journeyed for four days , and in each day they crossed the seasons twice . |
| 7 | A number of rarer departures from Mendel 's laws were found , and in each case they were able to find a corresponding abnormality in the chromosomes , of precisely the kind required to explain the genetic findings . |
| 8 | In all three studies , the children were selected to be as representative as possible and in each case they were asked to perform exhaustive intelligence tests and behavioural exercises . |
| 9 | Very small constellations have not been given separate maps , and in each case I have added some of the stars in adjacent groups to help in identification . |
| 10 | My destinations have all been identified by linguists , in papers which have appeared in the last five years or so , as well worth a visit , and in each case I have found the excursion worthwhile . |
| 11 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
| 12 | And in each hand she had two heavy plastic carrier bags of shopping ; they cut into her hands and threatened to split . |
| 13 | Meanwhile in Egypt Isis had heard what Seth had done to her husband and in great distress she set out to find him . |
| 14 | Meantime , the Brothers exercised , recited litanies , incanted the familiar battle-prayers , meditated , now and then duelled , tested themselves upon algometric pain-meters … and in spare time they scrimshandered the bones of the dead . |
| 15 | right , well that 's the sort of things that I think we want to find out and in slower time I was actually going to ring the yeah at Telford and say speak to me about this and maybe pop in one morning on my way into town and just say this is the idea how does it grab you and if they say you 're not on fine , but it 's things like that that I think we want to explore . |
| 16 | We 've said that when it 's a baby inside its mum , does n't have to control its own temperature , and in actual fact it 's several days after birth , after the baby 's born that it can effectively produce its own heat and its metabolism functions efficiently . |
| 17 | So there may be occasions when you feel that it would be nice to make er a change to er a system or procedure , and in actual fact it becomes really not possible because we would then be going against the dictates and requirements in I S O Nine Thousand and One . |
| 18 | Yes and in actual fact it 's warmer than it was yesterday |
| 19 | He looked fiercely alarming and in actual fact she had n't the faintest idea how to begin this task . |
| 20 | He shook it and in one second it became a shiny top hat . |
| 21 | The subject turned out to be vast and in one year I barely scratched the surface ! |
| 22 | Clark had a bad back — arthritis — and in one scene they are driving through the crowd going to the rodeo . |
| 23 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 24 | And in one room she found the tattered remnants of a standard , white , emblazoned with the image of a bird . |
| 25 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 26 | And it would just completely throw the lesson , and then I would find myself repeating it for them , and in one lesson I must have done that about three times , and I did n't make enough fuss to get those kids to the lesson on time . |
| 27 | Whole books have been devoted to the topic of sensitivity analysis in linear programming , and in one chapter we can do little more than indicate basic themes . |
| 28 | She is modestly draped but wears jewellery , and in one vignette she applies perfume to her hair with a pin dipped in a flask . |
| 29 | And in all probability you were n't alone , which means that either you fell , or were swept , out of a boat someone else has landed safely somewhere . ’ |
| 30 | There was no school on a Saturday and she would probably demand that he take her skating on the frozen lakes in the park — and in all honesty he did n't want to disappoint her . |