Example sentences of "in [noun] [unc] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | In Nizan 's imagination it assumed the status of a moral crusade . |
2 | ‘ Well , if you put that woman in Ma 's place I 'll never forgive you . ’ |
3 | In Simons 's words it ‘ goes beyond the information given ’ to identify the interests which shape the ‘ facts ’ . |
4 | Despite Harry 's obvious attraction for most of the unattached girls in the room , it was in Cora-Beth 's company he was most often to be seen . |
5 | She believes that in Newton 's alchemy we can catch a glimpse of ‘ at least a small part of his attempt to reconcile magic and science ’ . |
6 | In Newton 's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge , at least in outline . |
7 | While this view could equally have generated stoicism , in Mum 's case it led to self-pity . |
8 | Yet in Morse 's view it was always a good idea to ask a few inconsequential questions . |
9 | In Doyle 's experience it rarely helped to develop the human side of the ‘ rehabilitated ’ man . |
10 | If it occurs anywhere in Offa 's reign it does so as Of Rx A on a few of Offa 's coins by the London moneyer , Alhmund . |
11 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
12 | That was in Steven 's house I think that was |
13 | In Dennis 's presence I became an outlaw once again , and Karen my moll . |
14 | At the lowest point in David 's fortunes he is forced to evacuate Jerusalem . |
15 | It was no comfort to the church that many of the king 's judges were themselves clerics , for in Edward 's reign they clearly gave their first loyalty to the king who was employing them ; they seem seldom to have challenged his interests . |
16 | In Keynes 's time it was mainly wealthy or high-income earning individuals who operated speculative balances , but in the modern economy this role has been assumed more by institutions which manage contractual savings held in pension funds , life assurance contracts , and the like . |
17 | In Hilbert 's dictionary he found coypu defined as a South American aquatic rodent , myopotamus coypus , somewhat smaller than a beaver . |
18 | Precisely in Freud 's sense he is an intellectual , interested not in what soldiers say about fighting , nor in the history , technology or economics of war . |
19 | So far in Freud 's argument we are only concerned with a descriptive statement , albeit one with many theoretical overtones , but there is at this point no assertion about the genesis of this hostility , or about the degree to which it is innate , or produced by the way humans are reared , or by the interaction of the two . |
20 | Today we use the word ‘ meditation ’ quite differently : in Hilton 's time it meant study rather than a purely contemplative exercise . |
21 | In Scott 's diary they read : Oates died like a good Englishman . |
22 | On one of her first visits to Hamilton Terrace in Bobby 's company she was told that ‘ the Roberts ’ were coming to tea . |
23 | In Balbinder 's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner . |
24 | Ken talked a lot about suicide , but in Orton 's company it had to have sexual connotations , as though he were constantly — and whatever the subject of his conversations — having to keep up with the Joneses , in this case Orton and his assorted friends if not specifically Orton and Halliwell . |
25 | An overall difference of impression between Marx 's notes and Engels 's book is that in the case of the notebooks Morgan 's framework is totally subordinated to Marx 's wider concerns , while in Engels 's book we get the impression that Morgan , for great chunks of the book , actually takes over Engels . |
26 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
27 | Like the Holy Ghost , ascending and descending on the foreheads of the Apostles , only in Maggie 's case it 's voles and fieldmice . ’ |
28 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
29 | In Suleyman 's time he returned to the medrese stream , teaching as far as the Sahn and then becoming kadi successively in Aleppo , Damascus and Istanbul , in retirement from which last post he died in 963/1555–6 . |
30 | Andrew saw something in Horatia 's face he had never seen before . |