Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One teacher I interviewed in my middle school study , for instance , felt she had not been well treated in the reorganization to a middle school set-up and had resisted the head 's attempts at change ‘ We do n't , some of us do n't change so easily ! ’ |
| 2 | er him , do n't shout in my bloody ear hole , cor does he shout |
| 3 | During the 70s , in my Loving Spoonful London Hippie period , I favoured tiny , blue-tinted , gold-rimmed Lennon specs like everyone else — and , for the first time , felt utterly at peace ( man ) with my bespectacled self . |
| 4 | Sitting in the compartment in my dark city suit , working away at the bright knitting caused a lot of second glances from passers-by , but usually ensured I kept the compartment to myself . |
| 5 | I could see her in my rear view mirror . |
| 6 | Now that I had got it out I leaned back in my tubular steel chair with just the suggestion of a smirk on my face . |
| 7 | Water oozed through the sodden cardboard inner soles , hastily fitted over the holes in my cheap plastic shoes as I stood in the rain outside the courtroom . |
| 8 | As I mentioned in my recent phone call the best site for it is the Mill Yard , as last year . |
| 9 | All through that October and November , in my claustrophobic college room or in my dark-curtained hotel apartment , I grew to desire more of him than just his presence at my side as we wrote . |
| 10 | I want to install a Perkins 4203 engine in my ex-army Land Rover which is currently fitted with a 4 cylinder petrol engine . |
| 11 | In my Sinhalese wedding example , phases 1–5 constitute the rite of separation ; phases 6 -15 the " rite de marge " ; 16–20 the rite of aggregation . |
| 12 | Teacher — If I put ten pound coins in my left trouser pocket and twenty pound coins in my right trouser pocket and fifty ten pence pieces in my back pocket , what would I end up with ? |
| 13 | There should be a knife in my right trouser pocket . |
| 14 | However , we had not caught a double , so unbeknown to Rick I wound in my right hand rod which had not done much on the meat and switched over to a boilie . |
| 15 | ‘ As I mentioned in my annual report statement , 1992 was a watershed year . |
| 16 | I 've never felt so embarrassed in my entire life Marg ! |
| 17 | ‘ All in all , I 'd have to call it possibly the worst morning in my entire athletics career , ’ grimaced Dick . |
| 18 | ‘ I have never in my entire business life experienced such a ridiculous state of affairs . |
| 19 | I return to the lawn , make an excuse to go to my room where I lock the relics away in my blue metal toolbox … |
| 20 | A : you 've got his number have n't you B : yes I HAVE A : where is it B : it 's in my WALlet on his card A : where 's your wallet B : in my blue jacket A : £ . |
| 21 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 22 | His glasses are always ‘ in my other jacket pocket ’ or ‘ behind the clock on the mantelpiece ’ . |
| 23 | Suggestions on how to deal with a hang-up are covered in my other book Derek Piggott on Gliding ( A & C Black ) . |
| 24 | In my suggested audition pieces , I have not included any of the well known speeches from such modern classics as Look Back in Anger , by John Osborne , or Roots , by Arnold Wesker although these plays are revived frequently in many theatres . |
| 25 | During the Seventies , in my Lovin' Spoonful London Hippie period , I favoured tiny , blue-tinted , gold-rimmed Lennon specs like everyone else — and for the first time felt utterly at peace ( man ) with my bespectacled self . |
| 26 | ‘ Sure , ’ he said , moving a pile of paperbacks and sitting down in my fake Bauhaus leather and steel chair ( one of a set , of one ) . |
| 27 | I was attending a garden party in Reigate , and feeling very pleased with myself in my third-hand dinner jacket , scarlet ‘ Hoofer ’ trousers , and a lapel-badge which said : ‘ We are all prostitutes ’ . |
| 28 | All through that October and November , in my claustrophobic college room or in my dark-curtained hotel apartment , I grew to desire more of him than just his presence at my side as we wrote . |
| 29 | In my American soap thing and it was anyway I think it 's called midnight . |
| 30 | What I recall is what I read , and my playing Annie Oakley by myself all summer afternoon at the recreation ground , running up and down the hill in my brown gingham dress , wearing a cowboy hat and carrying a rifle . |