Example sentences of "in [adj] [prep] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you stayed away from me , I would try in vain to will you back beside me : then , long after the dinner I waited for you to share but had to eat alone , I would wander out into the stony streets , hoping to bump into you , to glimpse you sitting in a bar or on a park bench : |
| 2 | We try in vain to turn it up . |
| 3 | Her voice was beginning to rise and she tried in vain to control it . |
| 4 | erm the one at the Royal Sussex is perhaps interesting , in that in fact it 's the computer is based on a microprocessor , so it really is using the latest erm in advanced microtechnology . |
| 5 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 6 | In a note issued in June , Panmure Gordon predicted profits of £39m at the September year-end and £43m in 1993 on sales it foresees nearing £500m . |
| 7 | It fails , however , because although support was weakest in much of Nottinghamshire it was very strong in Yorkshire . |
| 8 | In 1888 in China he married another missionary , Priscilla Livingstone ( died 1929 ) , daughter of William Stewart , flax merchant , of Lisburn , Ireland . |
| 9 | Worrell did not go on that tour , but when West Indies went to England in 1957 under Goddard he was annoyed that the vice-captaincy went to Clyde Walcott ; Worrell and Walcott , while friends , were never all that close , in fact , whereas Worrell and Weekes were . |
| 10 | Bonar Law was prepared to make the right noises — in 1913 at Manchester he called for a positive social policy in Disraelian lines for " the swing of the pendulum is not enough " , but he would give no more active support . |
| 11 | In 1914 at Sandwich he reached the 2nd round and later he became Secretary at St George 's Hill . |
| 12 | In 1657 in Marlborough she attempted to speak in the church following the service , was attacked , brought before a magistrate , and imprisoned for six weeks , during which she fasted six days . |
| 13 | In patients with adenoma the incidence was increased to 9.8% ( p=0.068 ) , and in those with carcinoma it was 18.6% ( p= 0.0008 ) . |
| 14 | for example : in Napoli they were Italian , in Far from Denmark they were Danes influenced by the dance of South America . |
| 15 | In 1285 in Norfolk they offended the church not only by sitting in church courts and gathering evidence there for indictments of the clergy but also by hearing cases of violence and defamation against the clergy and matrimonial and testamentary suits , all of which were traditionally matters for church courts . |
| 16 | ‘ We run a proficiency award scheme and would like that to continue because there ought to be an award for young anglers in particular to show they are not just good anglers but caring conservationists as well , ’ said Peter . |
| 17 | said that people are losing all interest in the election and they 've got no faith in any of parties they all seemed to much alike and all fund ranges |
| 18 | In 1982 at Stanford I heard similar accounts of academic publishers requiring appropriate names and references in books . |
| 19 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 20 | But for a handful of obvious reasons , Lewis does not draw a picture of ‘ the whole man ’ in Surprised by Joy It is partly that a natural reticence made him draw a veil over the two greatest facts of his emotional history : his relationships with his father and Mrs Moore . |