Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How kind of you , ’ she said , balancing nicely on the edge of irony , in case a few minutes more of this should see him running out of line to shoot , and make it desirable to jettison him , ‘ how kind of you to tell me all about it ! ’ |
| 2 | The Canine Defence League refuses to find new homes for abandoned animals until well after the holiday , in case the same dogs are given as presents and then dumped again . |
| 3 | It mattered not that Underwood repaid in kind a few minutes later — the damage had been done . |
| 4 | Very shortly afterwards the young man was called up and sadly , he was killed in action a few weeks later . |
| 5 | In practice a few frogs have been produced by killing the egg nucleus by ultraviolet irradiation , and replacing it with the nucleus from a cell of the gut of a tadpole . |
| 6 | Tallymen and check traders , and perhaps to some extent local moneylenders ( sometimes in practice the same individuals ) , exercise — on a very much smaller scale — an influence opposite to the one which will be described below under ‘ Banks ’ . |
| 7 | However , what I feel will be of interest to many rose gardeners , bearing in mind the many questions asked , is an explanation of terms like Hybrid Tea , Floribunda , Polyantha , and the rest . |
| 8 | I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything … |
| 9 | In consequence a few sessions proved unproductive , and items had to be attempted on successive occasions before she was satisfied with the results . |
| 10 | Our third gear figures in 1965 included 30–50 , 40–60 and 50–70 each in 3.4secs ; even in top the same increments were despatched in between 4.1 and 4.3secs ; 80–100mph and 90–110mph occupied 4.5 secs and 6.8secs in third , or 5.4 and 6.1 in top , underlining the Cobra 's staggering flexibility . |
| 11 | 'E died in 'ospital a few days later . |
| 12 | Rose demanded , running out to her in bewilderment a few moments later . |
| 13 | Out of the twenty-eight women on the house , three went to bed , and they were in fact to lose two weeks ' remission each for being in bed a few minutes late . |
| 14 | I think I was er , I thought I was in love a few times , but erm in retrospect it was lust |
| 15 | The directive , which follows a similar directive on non-life insurance published in draft a few months ago , is the last big element in its push to open financial markets that are still highly protected . |
| 16 | I saw him in hospital a few days before the end . |
| 17 | She died in hospital a few days later . |
| 18 | And then from time to time , erm in fact a few times during the year , we circulate a newsletter to something like a thousand erm companies on our list . |
| 19 | In fact a few lessons on the lunge will improve your riding whatever level you have reached . |
| 20 | When I asked him a question he 'd say , ‘ The answer to that is — in fact the several answers to that are … |
| 21 | ‘ It 's funny , I 've spent most of my life thinking of advertising as a sort of dirty business , but in fact the same mechanisms work : you get input from someone , you get inspired and you give back . |