Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died .
2 The logic of this is defensible enough where there are members of the public to be terrified , but it was subsequently held that the offence need not take place in public , on the grounds that bystanders might become just as terrified in private as they would in public .
3 Didier Pironi told me they were about to leave the circuit for a hotel to meet in private where they could not be coerced by their bosses and , as it happens , along with a half-dozen other early colleagues , my car was well placed to follow the bus as it drove off .
4 ‘ I 'd be quite interested in that but I ca n't see it happening here .
5 One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock .
6 You 've no choice , you 're part of the international environment and you operate in that and you ca n't control , as I 've said before , er even if you 're as powerful as the United States , you ca n't control that environment and you do n't claim to control that environment in the same way that you claim to control your domestic environment .
7 According to Dr O'Toole , Dr Baltimore told her in 1986 that she could write a letter to Cell about it , but that he would publish a rejoinder .
8 ‘ So the repairs programme was begun in 1986 and it will probably continue until the end of this decade .
9 John Hayward had , in fact , first suggested in 1935 that they should set up house together , but Eliot chose not to do so .
10 Just occasionally a lesser official might eschew them : Sir Edward Hoby , for instance , told Robert Cecil in 1599 that he would like an office in reversion , since this would give him something to do ; he would not exercise the post by deputy .
11 A week earlier , Michael Heseltine , whose challenge in the leadership election contest brought about her fall , had still been adamant in public that he would not stand against her .
12 Justice is done in public so it may be discussed and criticised in public . "
13 " The whole thing 's a farce , of course , they 've known and loathed each other for years , but the official version of this world-shaking meeting of titans has to take place in public where it can be duly recorded — and one of us must be there , and why should it be me on a Sunday morning when I 've got an angelic assistant ?
14 Erm it may be erm er worth , in that , in that context , saying something about erm to get a contrast effect between y'know sort of how people would feel if they saw a man and a woman kissing in public and they may be perfectly alright about that but they may er feel particularly disgusted when it 's sort of two men or two women .
15 But I am constantly in trouble with the law , because I always kiss my boyfriend in public and we could be prosecuted for that .
16 We could meet up with them in public and I could n't guarantee not to strangle him on sight .
17 you 've got lots of other work in this that you should be doing .
18 Disobey me in this and I shall pack you off to Framlingham and send Joan elsewhere — more quickly than you could say wedding-bells ! ’
19 There are very large individual differences in this and it can affect each of the stages so far mentioned .
20 But , I just came across so much of it every where I was , I thought actually there there 's a book in this because it used to get , just get me so cross writing theatre history and , and reading these terrible things !
21 Consistent with our view of forecast oil prices , we expect to reduce our exploration expenditure to around £90 million in 1993 and we will benefit from third party expenditures on properties which LASMO has farmed out to major oil companies in Colombia , Pakistan and Yemen .
22 Birthdays from January 8-11 are in the front line of change in 1993 and it may be that no matter how you try to reach out and claim what you want , it eludes you — for now .
23 He say , well I 've o I 've only got two and he 'd , he 'd break a Woodbine in half and they 'd have half each .
24 ‘ He keeps hisself to hisself , ’ she was told several times , though Davyd , who always had superior knowledge , added ‘ cut him in half and you 'd find pure gold , all through . ’
25 His best placing was third on Corbiere in 1985 and it would be ironic if this season , when arch rival Richard Dunwoody is leading the jockeys championship , Scudamore should win two of the big three races — he also took the Champion Hurdle on Granville Again .
26 I hope that the hon. Gentleman had the opportunity to tell the gentleman that he might well see me in future as I shall be returning to the town in which I was born .
27 However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had .
28 My hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield has already enlarged upon the facts in the fine document which was produced in 1991 and I can only assume that they are correct .
29 The backs are still young and should mostly be available in 1995 if they can retain their interest .
30 North America was still such a young country in 1700 that it will be more useful to look at Europe during this time .
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