Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was bad enough to have to spend my days acting as occupational therapist to a bunch of linguistic basket-cases without having my social acquaintances dropping in to witness my degradation . |
| 2 | I 'd been house-sitting for Nassim Nassim 's cousin Sunil in Leytonstone for a week now , which meant that the five-day house-warming party where all my so-called friends drop in to see how I 'm coping , how much booze I 've laid on and what the music centre 's like , had come to an end . |
| 3 | My own company operates in more than seventy countries , and we employ more people in other parts of the world than we do in our homeland , the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | One survivor recalled that having made up her mind to do this , she asked her elder sister to put in a word for her . |
| 5 | Her elder daughter came in with roses in her cheeks where she had pinched herself , in order to give her swarthy complexion colour , as her mother had once shown her . |
| 6 | Since the stars near the edge of the galaxy orbit more slowly than those close in , observations of their galactic orbits tie in closely with measurement of their distances from Earth . |
| 7 | A farming community , existing as a hamlet in ancient times , it probably developed its agricultural resources to fit in with Kilham , which was at one time the chief market town in this part of the East Riding . |
| 8 | In historical studies the actual quotation from the appropriate Act of Parliament or the speech from Hansard or the letter from the collected correspondence may be the vital piece of information which needs to be placed in its right position to fill in a sort of jigsaw pattern which gives what can only be the one consistent answer . |
| 9 | The complex procedures were executed without a hitch : artillery positions were abandoned by the British and smoothly taken over by French units ; as British battalions moved out at night , their French replacements moved in — and all the while without any sign that the Germans recognized what they were about . |
| 10 | In due course , she entered government as the wife of the President of the Board of Trade in the first Labour administration ( where her social background came in useful advising less elegantly born wives on ‘ clothes and curtseys ’ when visiting the Palace ) . |
| 11 | If he finds me again , ’ said Raffaella at last , her greenish eyes dilated in apparently genuine fear , ‘ he will try again to kill me . |
| 12 | But there 's many a missus as needs to be home when her old man comes in from work on a Thursday , if she 's to get her proper share of his pay-packet . |
| 13 | Its real achievement lay in slowly but surely creating and manipulating opinion to create a border mentality where one had not existed in such crude form before . |
| 14 | Since then chancellors of the exchequer have been able to put together their annual tax plans in relatively favourable circumstances . |
| 15 | Unlike other bats , horseshoe bats move their outer ear flaps in fast alternating forward and backward sweeps . |
| 16 | Her personal philosophy fits in well with a proactive and innovative polytechnic . |
| 17 | Sedgefield need victories in all three of their remaining games to keep in with a chance . |
| 18 | Miss Dorothea Gilberd 's comfortable face came round the door , and then her comfortable figure came in . |
| 19 | The situation as we saw it was that there were no obvious leading firms er there were firms that had a particularly they were leaders in a particular niche markets for example 's being very aggressive , they were certainly nationally leading on insolvency and they were getting a lot of a lot of beneficial er publicity from that , locally we saw them er as erm th they were very good in the tax field and certainly in the consultancy field , having one of their major consultancy based in by the airport . |
| 20 | As I move and start to nestle my shin against a calf whose muscles are loosened by sleep , she senses what I 'm doing , and without waking reaches up with her left hand and pulls the hair off her shoulders on to the top of her head , leaving me her bare nape to nestle in . |
| 21 | But when its current owners moved in in 1970 the kitchen was still very much the same . |
| 22 | Its sensuous aroma drifted in through the open sun-roof , provoking a little series of painful memories of country walks in Oxfordshire with Mortimer … |
| 23 | Its first phase ended in late 1990 . |
| 24 | ‘ I still think ’ , he observed , ‘ on present showing they have their own doom built in . ’ |
| 25 | John admits they are in a better position than most tenants , for they have their own house to move in to and are not dependent on the pub 's accommodation . |
| 26 | But they may have to face the fact that their own view of his department 's policy needs are irrelevant to the main problem being tackled within it , or even that their own commitments lead in quite opposite directions to the ones being taken by those concerned with policy innovation in the department . |
| 27 | come down there down Chelsea get their fucking heads kicked in . |
| 28 | He let them pass , acknowledged them barely , made the faint pretence that he had chosen this path by chance for a late afternoon walk , even gazed up at Skiddaw , and their gurgled laughter mixed in with his own longing for the gurgling of their necks to gape blood . |
| 29 | He concludes that the effectiveness of a given system should be based on its ability to fit in with the external systems making up its environment on the one hand , and , on the other hand , on its competence in allowing its own sub-systems to fit in with each other . |
| 30 | Where her own fantasy fitted in , he did not know . |