Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 2 | Apple liked the idea so much that they invested a 20% stake in Adobe making themselves the largest customer . |
| 3 | A long time ago , Alice thought , as she heard the arrival of the first of Félix 's dinner guests , she and Harry had longed to be rich in order to buy themselves a house which they could share . |
| 4 | So Ashenden spent eight quid of his money in order to buy himself an alibi . ’ |
| 5 | Here it was , I believe , that my hero Frank Buckland , the writer , naturalist and Mayhew-like chronicler of London life , had jumped into the water in order to imagine himself a salmon . |
| 6 | He did not need to see his hands in order to roll himself a cigarette . |