Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him it became a kind of holy bird : he would handle it with deep respect , and spent hours in rapt contemplation of it . |
| 2 | In each half of it , the dominant race was itself a minority . |
| 3 | But a hundred and fifty of you can you all get into two groups and there 'll be fifteen in each group of you . |
| 4 | ‘ And you think , in that suitcase of hers … ? ’ |
| 5 | And of course I 've seen her blazing in that dress of hers when she kicked off against someone . |
| 6 | In that last summer term we spent a lot of time outdoors in the convent garden , in that part of it where our noisy unhallowed feet might tread . |
| 7 | In that voice of hers , that warm low voice , she said , ‘ I know you must be feeling sad so often , that was a bad thing your grandmother dying so soon . ’ |
| 8 | " Come down , please , " she says in that voice of hers , holding out the bag of Quality Street . |
| 9 | Whatever was going on in that head of yours , it was certainly dramatic . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’ |
| 11 | The Parisians , in that way of theirs , just turned the cheek and bore down on us anyway . |
| 12 | And erm we used to go and play in that sort of you know do the things that boys usually do . |
| 13 | I thought you 'd taken off in that spaceship of yours . ’ |
| 14 | Well good luck in that programme of yours . |
| 15 | ( 194 ) He was very soon made to understand that he was not wanted in that corner of it where old Lingard and his own weak will placed him … |
| 16 | ‘ We brought our tribe up in that 'ouse of ours an' I would n't change it fer no ovver place , ’ he declared . |
| 17 | A few years ago he had a flourishing little business going in that shop of his , and now look at him . |
| 18 | By that time we should have about I would say at least another ten thousand pounds in that account of yours . |
| 19 | And then , when you think you have everything under control , when you 're certain you 're in complete command of it all your thoughts , your life , your world and your work what does Time do ? |
| 20 | Thus , where the draftsman used the phrase " adjoining premises " in one part of the lease and the phrase " adjoining or neighbouring premises " in another part of it , it was held that the former phrase only applied to property that came into physical contact with the demised property because the words " or neighbouring " must have added something to the word " adjoining " ( White v Harrow ( 1902 ) 86 LT 4 ) . |
| 21 | When you look at the moon half of it will be in light half of it will be in dark you will see a moon which looks like half a moon . |
| 22 | Not that I believe in this God of yours , you understand . " |
| 23 | What he really wants is a business of the inside and outside of his head , in this case of his ‘ alone ’ juxtaposed with the authorial ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ : a rich relationship , not a flat contradiction or dead end , a relationship which evokes and nurses a distinction established as far back as The Double , between false solitude ( ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ ) and true solitude which is the obverse of true society and meaningless without it . |
| 24 | ‘ Is a cab involved in this case of yours , Bragg ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ In this dream of yours , did the dinghy have a name , by any chance ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Nothing now , ’ she answered , ‘ but you could have died in this hut of yours . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Still , ’ hissed another mask , ‘ it would have been a shame to lose so bold a partner in this enterprise of ours ; and of His Supremacy 's . |
| 28 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 29 | In this society of ours , many children are led to confusion by the complexity of the life in which they 're placed . |
| 30 | ‘ I agree with you about the slavery in this country of ours today . |