Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I intend going to all 21 community centres across the city in my capacity as community services chairman .
2 And there he has obstinately been retained , despite a long run of failure unprecedented in my experience among specialist batsmen .
3 In my ignorance of electricity I would have believed her , even if it sounded unusual .
4 Grubby little man he may be — he shits in my presence without embarrassment — yet in his thought I perceive he is fastidious .
5 I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love .
6 This is the area of greatest conflict in my subject at present .
7 Wherever I play , I seem to be confident in myself and I am revelling in my return to fitness .
8 In my concern as Chairman of the Board was that er if very few people turned up then perhaps people might say that we did n't go around go about advertising it in the correct way what I think we actually did I 'm not sure how many people are here this evening , but I should think it 's somewhere in the region of about hundred and , hundred and fifty , so I hope that the meeting this evening sort of cross representation people actually use facilities which the playhouse offers .
9 In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day .
10 The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes .
11 I was advised by the Greenbelt Local Plan Programme Officer , on fifth March , that counsel for North Yorkshire County Council , with the apparent concurrence of counsel for Ryedale District Council , had delivered an oral submission to the inspector , that at the hearing of the case which was to have taken place on the eleventh of March , certain evidence contained in my proof of evidence issued on twelfth February should be treated as inadmissible .
12 Such consideration inter alia is given in my proof of evidence and the summary thereto , and they are therefore admissible , and of major relevance to this enquiry .
13 In my message for World Communications Day last year , I mentioned that among the realities we celebrate on this annual occasion are the God-given gifts of speech , of hearing and of sight which make communication possible between us .
14 But , says Hegel , if my identity lies outside myself — in my head of department , in my father — it is outside my control .
15 I had n't deserted my first love , the Salcombe yawl Lisa , but she lived in my home in South Devon , and now that I was officially attached to Sir Edmund Pusey 's Police Liaison Group at the Home Office I had to live in London , and the Crouch was much more accessible .
16 I intended to ‘ exploit ’ my popularity in my country in order to impose upon my readers a book centred on the Ashkenazi civilisation , history , language and frame of mind , all of which are virtually unknown in Italy , except by some sophisticated readers of Joseph Roth , Bellow , Singer , Malamud , Potok , and of course yourself .
17 Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow .
18 I found when I got involved in my relationship with Angus in 1970 there was a real sort of tension .
19 " I do n't reckon I ought to have shocks like that in my state of health . "
20 I was pleased with this reflection , and so convoluted is the human mind that I ceased to take pride in my lack of pride and was proud that I had found myself capable of it .
21 I looked it up in my handbook of psychiatry and the nearest I could get was ‘ spendthrift behaviour ’ , an expression of hypomania , a serious problem requiring urgent treatment — usually , so it says in my handbook , in a hospital setting , which seems a little extreme — but there you are .
22 ‘ I was fortunate in my choice of boat , and my equipment gave me little trouble .
23 So naturally I had to get it with and it was heavier th I do n't know how much it weighed , I I I got it by the way , in my barn in farm in Indiana , one of the last relics of Brothers .
24 Throughout the pamphlet Hic Mulier seems to be in sympathy with this remark of Montaigne 's , but nowhere is her appropriation of the idea more challenging than in the way she dissolves both law and ideological fixity into a celebration of change and transformation , and , by implication , a celebration of her potential rather than her fixed nature : ‘ Nor do I in my delight of change otherwise than as the whole world does ’ ( sig .
25 In my work with church groups on the subject of bereavement , I have repeatedly found that such groups Want to discuss the subject of suicide .
26 ‘ Since you left , I 've been too busy in my work in town to get too involved here , ’ he says .
27 Years later she told me that she had regretted that I did not include some of his mother 's receipts in my life of Cavafy .
28 In fact they 've been instrumental in providing some of the greatest pleasures in my life to date .
29 ‘ No , ’ he said quietly , ‘ there is n't anyone important in my life at present . ’
30 As I have said , in my life in wartime there were three enigmas .
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