Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the SNP recorded swings in several seats it failed to breakthrough in the Labour seats it would need to win in any significant nationalist revival . |
| 2 | In the final stages I attempted to draw together the wide ranging tones and then to punctuate these closer tones with an occasional tonic of colour in the foreground — a turquoise yellow or a red . |
| 3 | In the final prints they were pushed back even more , loosing out some of the green . |
| 4 | But in the final weeks she began to fall , and I organized a home help and district nurse . |
| 5 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 6 | Only in the Ring of Fire , in the Eastern islands he loved , is his name writ large — on any globe worth its salt — in The Wallace Line . |
| 7 | Using profit maximising analyses and based on a model of a mainly cereal farm in the eastern counties he has calculated the likely impact of various assumed changes in the economics of farming . |
| 8 | Time was suspended and the police heard my life story at least twice with patience and good humour in the 80 minutes it took to cut my right leg free from the car . |
| 9 | In the pre-machinery days I used to start in August to hand knit gloves for my two school-boy sons . |
| 10 | The truth is that while batting in the indoor nets he was struck on the toe by a ball from paceman Chris Lewis and an X-ray over the weekend revealed he had indeed suffered a cracked bone . |
| 11 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |
| 12 | At latitudes greater than about 40° the banding is less clear , and in the polar regions it is replaced by smaller-scale cellular features . |
| 13 | In the fertile valleys they acquired large agricultural granges , some to be farmed by their own lay brothers , others let out to tenants who formed clusters of farm ‘ townships ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school . |
| 15 | In the small hours he awoke , feeling ravenous ; he slipped quietly from the bed , — trying not to awaken her , and tiptoed from the room . |
| 16 | In the small hours she woke , her heart beating . |
| 17 | He is going through a dry patch at the moment as he has won only on match in the five tournaments he has played so far this year but I am sure he will work his way back again , he has got it in him . |
| 18 | This , I have argued , is evident both at the level of theoretical explanations and in the common-sense models of understanding which are deployed in the five statements I have quoted . |
| 19 | More than 2,700 children went through the paediatrics department at Middlesbrough General in the five months she was there . |
| 20 | She would ‘ have to make a very special effort ’ to build the links with other professionals — GPs , the police , consultants and others on which she had barely had time to start in the five months she was there . |
| 21 | But I must say , in the five years they were together I 've never seen Sarah so happy and contented . |
| 22 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 23 | In the five years I played with Mayall , there was Hughie Flint , Aynsley Dunbar , Micky Waller , Mick Fleetwood and then Keef Hartley . |
| 24 | ‘ Unfortunately , in the five years I have been here Leeds have not won anything but we will . ’ |
| 25 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 26 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |
| 27 | Her successes include winning the 1987 Gosforth Junior Open , the 1988 Tyneside G.C. Girls ' title and selection for the Durham County girls ' team for whom she had a 100 per cent record in the four matches she played . |
| 28 | In the four years they had been separated , she had seen her husband only twice , and both times had been quite by chance . |
| 29 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 30 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |