Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In present-day western society we have cultural goals of material success : plenty of money , a big house , flash cars , pretty girl/handsome boy , for example . |
| 2 | In 2.3 five-cylinder form it stands at £19.247 ( Quattro £22,125 ) . |
| 3 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |
| 4 | In each specific case it is impossible to determine the exact line of distinction between faith and faith plus , between our faith in God and our faith in other men . |
| 5 | In that final settlement he can be influenced by , without necessarily even remembering , every relevant experience throughout the whole of his life . |
| 6 | In that ascetic age he earned a strange renown for his childlessness ; it was attributed , rightly or wrongly , to celibacy , and this was regarded as a sign of virtue . |
| 7 | In that unhappy mood he went to Paris to meet the designer Balanchine had stipulated , Dorothea Tanning , who followed the surrealist manner she had previously applied to one of Balanchine 's own ballets , Night Shadow . |
| 8 | The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without . |
| 9 | Airtime goes beyond packing to offer general time management advice : ‘ Do n't , ’ it says , in that authoritative tone it likes to adopt , ‘ clutter your memory with non-consequential facts . ’ |
| 10 | This true story of a young Ayrshire doctor starts in that vast country we know as Russia , 275 years ago , during the reign of Czar Peter the Great . |
| 11 | Then display it in the nice rosewood frame above the mantelpiece in that new home you 're now too poor to furnish ? |
| 12 | and rise and fall about twelve feet , they tell you in that new book you 've got there , the rise and fall . |
| 13 | … You use the same phrase in a new context and embedded in that new context it acquires a completely different meaning . |
| 14 | It 's rather like DIY in that one day you may need a power saw to cut up some timber , the next a hand saw for some precision work . |
| 15 | And in that one house we used to do thirty thousand or more — we 'll call it thirty thousand — in three hangings . |
| 16 | All the grown-ups smiled in that boring way they have when little girls are being exceptionally sick-making . |
| 17 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |
| 18 | Graveney insists that Hick should go back to basics , and remain in that classic position he is in at the start of the bowler 's run-up — to stand sideways-on , bat on the ground , knees slightly bent , feet about shoulder width apart , and head up and still with both eyes level . |
| 19 | In that endless moment she was truly a part of Rune , sharing his strength of mind and body , his former pain and his present pleasure . |
| 20 | Even in that scant garment he was very hot and sweaty . |
| 21 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
| 22 | It was only to teach her a little lesson that I 'd added some nail-varnish remover to the ephedrine in that nasal spray she carried around everywhere . |
| 23 | Well why ca n't she do that two weeks marking in that first week she needs to unwind ? |
| 24 | I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in . |
| 25 | There was clearly a close friendship between them , and the Office gives a moving account of his efficacy in curing her of some kind of fit : He came and found her mute , but when he had seated himself at her window and they had eaten together , it chanced that at the end of the dinner the recluse wished to sleep , and oppressed by slumber her head drooped towards the window where God 's saint , Richard , was reclining , and as she was leaning a litle on that same Richard , suddenly , with a vehement onslaught , such a grave vexation took her in her sleep that she seemed to wish to break the window of her house , and in that strong vexation she awoke , her speech was restored , and with great devotion she broke out into the words " Gloria tibi Domine " , and the blessed Richard completed the verse which she had begun . |
| 26 | She felt as though she could n't get enough of him , and in that split instant she made her decision . |
| 27 | In that split second we came that close to loosing one of them . |
| 28 | I knew the rule well enough , but in that split second it never entered my head . |
| 29 | Timothy looked straight into Topaz 's eyes and in that split second she knew without doubt that he was aware of her love for Andrew . |
| 30 | If the abbey was a marvel of man 's work , the Tor was God 's answer for in that flat land it looked like one of the high places mentioned in the bible where the ancient patriarchs went to talk to Yahweh . |