Example sentences of "in [adj] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 2 | The eternal quest for immortality will be in vain until we know the answer — unfortunately , we do n't . |
| 3 | I push , prod , drop keys and re-attempt entry in vain until I realize that the only resemblance between the car into which I was breaking and entering and my own car is that they were both white . |
| 4 | Copernicus 's astronomy was bold in 1543 because it clashed with the background assumption that the earth is stationery at the centre of the universe . |
| 5 | One in four smokers dies prematurely : of these , one in ten will die of lung cancer and more than one in eight if they smoke over 25 cigarettes a day . |
| 6 | One in four smokers dies prematurely : of these , one in ten will die of lung cancer , more than one in eight if they smoke over 25 cigarettes a day . |
| 7 | Pharmacists are not only willing to talk to you about medicines but about many other aspects of health as well — and in private if you prefer other customers not to hear . |
| 8 | After the series in Australia , Mike Brearley announced that he would not be able to tour in 1980–1 as he wanted to continue his studies in psychoanalysis , and the England selectors decided to appoint a new captain for the start of the 1980 rubber . |
| 9 | Yes that was more like it , you had a friend in that so you ran along the train trying to find her . |
| 10 | I 'll grant you were in a bad state , which was hardly surprising after all the business with losing your part and then Lesley-Jane going off with Micky — incidentally , there was less in that than you thought , but that 's by the way . |
| 11 | ‘ Wrap yourself in that while I change the sheets . ’ |
| 12 | In the case of the APT , the approach is diametrically opposite in that although it derives a causal relationship , it does not identify the determinant factors . |
| 13 | And I 'd also like to come back on this of closed schools in that if we look only at chronological age , which puts a limit on ‘ O ’ levels , we are shutting doors , because many students — and I see this in the sixth form — are not ready for these examinations at the prescribed age . |
| 14 | But it ma , it 's a it leaves you this interesting situation in that if they had moved in what do you do , cancel the lease and get them out ? |
| 15 | The individual is prevented from commenting on the inconsistencies in that if he attempts to do so , he is met by condemnation that increases the confusing bind ( Bateson et al. , 1956 ) . |
| 16 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 17 | With the daggerboard retracted. the board can be steered solely by weight movements and behaves like a surfboard , water-ski or skateboard , in that if you weight one side of the board it will turn in that direction . |
| 18 | There 's a lot of money to be made in that if you want little bits of , put things here and there that you can different |
| 19 | And with the current allowance of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds er is reasonably good , in that if you have a property worth say seventy or eighty thousand and then you 've got assets of worth perhaps forty to fifty thousand , you 'll still be under the limit . |
| 20 | Eight-year-olds were beginning to acknowledge the distinction , in that when they used the causal connectives in the deductive mode they appropriately followed because with evidence and so with a conclusion . |
| 21 | But surely in that when I said let's see whether it considerations I said . |
| 22 | These er return labels were n't in that when you lent it to John , to take over there ? |
| 23 | You 're supposed to use bag in that when you do it like , but ? |
| 24 | They had a son Cameron , 11 , but finally parted in 1986 after she accused him of giving her black eyes . |
| 25 | Built on the banks of the Tyne and opened in 1873 , it had been extended in 1893 until it stood three storeys high , 609 ft. long and 330 ft. wide . |
| 26 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
| 27 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 28 | ‘ People who have skills in one authority are likely to be accepted in another unless they have higher standards of training and qualifications , but it is too early to see any pattern , ’ he says . |
| 29 | It is a bit like taking a poll of general election candidates asking them to state in public whether they think that they will win . |
| 30 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |