Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walk from the petrol station to the store roughly 14 times a day and if I did n't have a pair of inner soles in my flat shoes I 'd cry ! ’ |
| 2 | Standing there in my civilian clothes I felt completely out of place and wished that I could be wearing a blue tracksuit like the rest of them . |
| 3 | hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds . |
| 4 | ‘ In my early days I was into Pere Ubu and Josef K , but now I 'm more mellow and listen to Lyle Lovett and some classical stuff . |
| 5 | But in my early days it was quite common for some of the old horsemen to walk anything up to two or three miles , and sometimes more , to bring harness down to the shop . |
| 6 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 7 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 8 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 9 | Dressed in my new clothes I went to Miss Havisham 's house , where her cousin opened the gate to me again . |
| 10 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 11 | ‘ In my worst moments I thought everyone knew , except me . ’ |
| 12 | I will never return to Treasure Island , but in my worst dreams I still hear the sharp , high scream of Captain Flint the parrot : ‘ Pieces of eight ! |
| 13 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 14 | In my childish days I remember I used to fear to touch the little girls ' sleeves ; so it is now . |
| 15 | In my last comments I mentioned how everyone can influence our performance in the Division . |
| 16 | In my own turfs we are quarrelling among ourselves with intense energy about whether women can be ordained priests , about who is more Catholic than their neighbour and about a whole host of internal issues , because we apparently have neither the grace nor the guts to face up to the real issues which are the business of the Church in the current world . |
| 17 | First , when governments want to make relatively large adjustments in their budgetary positions they may rely more upon changes in taxation than changes in public expenditures . |
| 18 | In their four meetings she had never questioned him about his job , had seldom mentioned the power station except , as on this afternoon , to complain half seriously that it spoilt the view . |
| 19 | In their financial affairs they have been abnormally secretive . |
| 20 | Under succeeding Labour governments in the 1960s demands for planning became more obtrusive in political rhetoric and in their practical aspects they involved the promotion of industrial reconstruction whether through mergers in the private sector or yet more reorganisation within the nationalised industries . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 22 | If he had heard her do that in their single days he would never have married her . |
| 23 | Particularly in their polemical passages they have a freshness and directness , such assurance that the world is now their oyster , that it is easy to forget that they did not go uncriticized . |
| 24 | In their broadest terms they refer to the whole issue of the supply of labour : do taxes affect the choice of occupation , the individual 's drive for promotion , the number of hours worked , the rate of productivity , labour mobility , the decision to retire from work , to emigrate , and so on ? |
| 25 | In their own refectories they ate a ceramic-reinforced , drug-laden booster diet in silence , ending with a prayer recited by an older initiate . |
| 26 | Where this involves opposition to those who run the global system in their own interests it will naturally involve transnational practices in the economic , political and cultural-ideological spheres . |
| 27 | The Normans were ruthless conquerors , but in their own domains they knew what to preserve ; and Palermo remained , like London , the most populous and prosperous city of its region . |
| 28 | Because the development officer in Ipswich was not able to see these institutionalised clients in their own homes she understandably found it hard in many cases to say whether or not she agreed with the decision that they should not return home . |
| 29 | If such people with planned social care can be kept in their own homes it is worth pressing for flexibility of resources to put in the extra help needed . |
| 30 | Yet in their own terms they seem fairly content with their lives , and they do not rail against the fate that has left them with this role . |