Example sentences of "in [pron] [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 Dressed in my new clothes I went to Miss Havisham 's house , where her cousin opened the gate to me again .
9 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 " .
10 In my childish days I remember I used to fear to touch the little girls ' sleeves ; so it is now .
11 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 .
12 In their financial affairs they have been abnormally secretive .
13 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 .
14 Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off .
15 If he had heard her do that in their single days he would never have married her .
16 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 .
17 In their calm faces I can find no clues
18 Still in their independent reveries they walk closely together as they near the end of the park .
19 They took it on their on their They went with their ponies in their little barrels you see , and they went on horseback over it .
20 While sexually mature males may remain in their natal troops they have little access to females , unless they are of especially high dominance .
21 These morphological changes may be interpreted functionally in dietary terms as a change to a diet with hard fruit as the main constituent , and this may be related in turn to the drier and more seasonal environments they lived in , but as there was little change in their postcranial skeletons it is likely that they retained their ancestral arboreal locomotor pattern .
22 Mr Manson added that society did not seem to realise that alcohol and drugs caused the brain to malfunction and permit ‘ those who take them to do acts , even murder , which in their sane moments they would be horrified even to contemplate ’ .
23 And the reason why the Greeks should have needed such consolation is that in their Dionysiac ecstasies they had looked into the painful essence of life .
24 By giving the magic limitations , asking in which particular circumstances it works , the drama is actually enhanced .
25 But in her late teens she lost interest .
26 Still right in her black jeans you know lucky black did n't go all over it .
27 When she was in her stockinged feet she moved to get out , but Marc was wedged in the doorway , unbuckling his boots .
28 In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven .
29 In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London .
30 In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully .
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