Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ In that great city it should not be hard . ’ |
| 32 | Shakily Fernando eased away from her and in that terrible second she hesitated , fearing the rejection he had once threatened her with . |
| 33 | And in whatever enterprise he was engaged there , in that far-off region she had never seen , and never would see , where his heart was , she knew in her own heart that it could not be less than glorious . |
| 34 | In that trance-like state we drift apart , still staring , but when I turn aside it 's as if we snapped a silken cord . |
| 35 | How he disciplined himself to make ends meet in that difficult time he explained in his book What To Do When Someone Has Debt Problems , A Practical Survival Guide ( 1985 ) , in the Introduction to which he wrote : |
| 36 | But then , as if in that same instant he had solved the puzzle , he spoke . |
| 37 | In that same instant he saw the menace he faced . |
| 38 | In that same year I was posted to South Shields on the south bank of the River Tyne and quickly became aware that I had an enormous burden to carry , simply because I had spent all of my previous service on ‘ the other side of the river ’ . |
| 39 | In that same year he returned from studying on the Continent and began to exhibit work in the Royal Academy and with the New English and the London Group . |
| 40 | In that same year he spoke at the National Free Church Council 's tercentenary celebration of Cromwell 's birth , held in his own City Temple . |
| 41 | In that same year he married his cousin Helen , daughter of John and Joanna Smyth , and between 1797 and 1805 she bore him six daughters and two sons . |
| 42 | On the other hand , if you went to the other end of the scale and in that same season you looked at all horses that were offered at precisely two to one on , then you 'll find that there were twenty two horses which were offered at those odds and fifteen of them won . |
| 43 | In that short interval we managed to grab a couple of milk crates and a door that we found at the edge of a building site . |
| 44 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 45 | Happier ? he said , his blue eyes fixed on my face in that mad way he sometimes has . |
| 46 | Had Araminta been right in that brief exchange she had overheard in the breakfast parlour ? |
| 47 | The right side of his face was a mass of scratches , there was a sticking plaster on his ear , and his chest was heavily bandaged , but even in that sickly light he seemed bright-eyed and calm . |
| 48 | She 's quite comfortable in that little villa you bought her in San Carlos . ’ |
| 49 | And in that little book it said , If the firm provided space for bicycles or what have you they were responsible for them . |
| 50 | Prices are also made a lot more volatile right simply because the world market becomes a residual market , instead of everybody buying and selling through the world market right , if virtually everybody becomes self sufficient , the world market becomes a bit of a misnomer right , there is n't such a thing as a world market in that in that particular case it it may just be a few very small countries trade on the world market , it becomes very small market and therefore prone to supply erm fluctuations in any one country and as we know , supply fluctuations on inelastic demand causes price volatility . |
| 51 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 52 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 53 | Whether it was that in that heightened state I had a premonition of what was to follow , or was simply recalling Dennis 's corpse-like stupor in the next room , I felt a perverted thrill , as though I were desecrating the most holy altar of all . |
| 54 | I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words . |
| 55 | In that fleeting instant she had seen the soldier of her dreams . |
| 56 | Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up . |
| 57 | He 's clever enough , and brave in spite of all I 've said — in that last raid he took on four men to save Ewan Beg 's life . |
| 58 | She seemed again to have lost interest , in that swift way she had , and I felt useless and bereft . |
| 59 | As long as it 's not in that green box it does n't , they have been to check on us I mean |
| 60 | He was simply laughing at her in that condescending way he had . |