Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a battle of weight versus cost , a battle which , to my husband 's dismay , I usually lost and we would have to pay over the odds to have my cases stowed in the hold of the Jumbo . |
| 2 | The tables and the chairs , the cups and the spoons , the stains on the wall , the dust on the floor , the ache in my mind — all these things and everything else in sight mercifully receded for whole minutes at a time as my eyes took in the picture of that girl with the black hair , the pale face and the red boots . |
| 3 | ‘ I wondered why my ears popped in the lift . ’ |
| 4 | At night I slept in the big kitchen on the brown leatherette bed settee , and my parents slept in the box room . |
| 5 | My parents lived in the big house and I built a studio and had a whole little place where I could live in the basement and it was very convenient , so David would come round there . ’ |
| 6 | My parents live in the Wirral . |
| 7 | But you see my parents work in the theatre and I 'm so used to moving from town to town that I ca n't afford to waste time . |
| 8 | ‘ At 18 miles I saw my parents standing in the crowd and this lifted me tremendously . |
| 9 | Two days after leaving Dire Dawa my parents camped in the highlands beside Haramaya Lake , a small stretch of water teeming with wildfowl , not far from Harar . |
| 10 | I try to convince my acquaintances to join in the action of the Czechs and Slovaks , but I fail … |
| 11 | My hon. Friend will be aware that many of my constituents work in the knitwear industry and are grateful for the steps already taken by the Government . |
| 12 | Q. So what would my dependents receive in the event of my death ? |
| 13 | I made acquaintances , I met partners — that special freemasonry of glances — and gradually I saw my features reflected in the iridescent circumstances of Rio . |
| 14 | At least she did n't ask why I kept my curtains closed in the daytime . |
| 15 | My hands fly in the air , they are follies |
| 16 | Publishers interested in having their titles included in the catalogue should contact Planning and Environmental Books , , ( ) . |
| 17 | Other party leaders , such as the former Communist Herbert Wehner , agreed change was needed , and in November 1959 their views triumphed in the Bad Godesberg programme , drawn up at a special party meeting . |
| 18 | More than anything , though , the May 1990 elections provided voters with an opportunity to make their views known in the relative calm of the ballot box , and it was an opportunity they took in unprecedented numbers . |
| 19 | Tuna are sometimes landed when they try to swim through holes in fishing nets and get their teeth caught in the mesh ; once trapped in this way , they can be dragged on to the beach with the net . |
| 20 | The effect of this , quite naturally , is for even the most conscientious of organisations not to bring out modifications or amendments and to keep their fingers crossed in the hope that their suspicions of a failure or shortcoming will prove to be unsubstantiated . |
| 21 | Fear of unemployment is probably doing more than anything to hold back consumers from increasing their spending , and that is compounded by their desire to pay down debt after getting their fingers burned in the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s . |
| 22 | Behind him were a crowd of men and horses ; Hearthwares in full armour , their breaths steaming in the coolness of the morning , Myrcans standing impassively , indifferent to the cold but nodding to Isay as he approached , and a pair of pack mules trying to bite each other 's manes . |
| 23 | Patsy and her sons arrived in the village on Friday evening and spoke to us on the telephone . |
| 24 | The three categories are very broad , as Joan Woodward and her researchers discovered in the 1950's during their work on industrial organization in Essex ( See Chapter 13 paras . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , plenty of new flats are being built and coming on to the market : developers have rushed to get their projects completed in the hope of selling before demand dried up . |
| 26 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 27 | All the company 's research , development and manufacturing takes place in Abingdon , but less than 10 per cent of their products stay in the U K. |
| 28 | Publicity is news about the organization or its products reported in the press and other media without charge to the organization . |
| 29 | As the nights grew darker and colder , dinner parties grew scarcer and most nights Alexandra spent by her own fire , doing her meticulous accounts , writing faithfully to her father or answering George Langley 's breezy and frequent letters from Cambridge , Rose and Grace Langley were in London until Christmas , their hunters idle in the stable and Alexandra 's life was both peaceful and satisfying in their absence . |
| 30 | Silently , her fingers searched in the dim light , feeling her way , moving over the polished surface of the table , then , straightening , she went and stood by the side of the door , a slender , pale figure , waiting in the shadows of the night . |