Example sentences of "in [pers pn] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In them relatively spacious plots of varying dimensions were arranged along the frontages and housed a range of individual buildings and other related features . |
| 2 | Indeed , if he has a fault as a critic it is in his boyishly enthusiastic generosity towards authors — Thomas Usk , Lydgate — who are not really as interesting as he makes them sound . |
| 3 | William Curll still lies flat on the floor of Salisbury Chapel in St Etheldreda 's , Hatfield , in his loosely fitting grave-clothes . |
| 4 | In the rune-friezed , banner-hung oratorium reserved for cadets the Necromundans hung on the words of crippled veteran lecturers ; and on one such occasion Lexandro learned that Valence had been correct in his seemingly blasphemous comments uttered in the scriptory … |
| 5 | In his newly exalted position , Jenkins may come to choose his words more carefully , but it was only the other day that he was saying ; ‘ There is no doubt we are poor ; it 's no good pretending we are not . |
| 6 | The strong tendons in his darkly tanned hand sprang into relief as he lifted the pot . |
| 7 | Right now she resented every bone in his physically perfect body . |
| 8 | In his carefully worked-through interpretation of the reader 's behaviour , he identifies two sets of activity . |
| 9 | Michael Roberts , 11 times champion in his native South Africa , rode 206 winners and more than 1,000 horses in his ultimately successful quest to become champion jockey . |
| 10 | Doone followed us into the kitchen , removed a grey tweed overcoat and sat by the table in his much-lived-in grey suit . |
| 11 | Leonard Montague Harrod , in his remarkably anachronistic Library work with children ( 1969 , p.24 ) , saw the good children 's librarian as |
| 12 | While this is perhaps possible , it seems rather more likely that the account needs to be modified in respect of this detail , that Molla Husrev went to Bursa to teach in his already existing medrese rather than to build , and then teach in , the medrese . |
| 13 | Raconteur and raisonneur , in his art as in his personal life , he is a concealed author who is evident enough in his hotly opinionated fiction : he is not given to expounding his own passionate opinions there , but can be recognised without difficulty in almost every aspect of every one of his novels , including the speech assigned to his often disputatious characters . |
| 14 | Came a day when the man revealed that he had kept an exact account of all the money laid out on him , and could now , in his unexpectedly good situation in life , Pay every penny back to his benefactor . |
| 15 | This is how , in his partly autobiographical World of Surfing , he described the wave for which he is still remembered : |
| 16 | As we have already noted , David Rolfe did likewise in his widely publicised series Jesus : the Evidence , which was followed by a book bearing the same title . |
| 17 | However , he was also imbued with papal influences that came to him no doubt from his Roman and " papal " background , from Pope Gregory VII and from St Bernard in his tremendously important address to Eugenius III . |
| 18 | Though dogged by ill health in later years he was still able to work in his particularly single-minded way , largely because of the devotion of his wife Mitzi whom he met during the war , while serving with the Royal Engineers . |
| 19 | But , in his distinctly supply-side programme of aiding the wealthy and ‘ achievers ’ in general with tax cuts , his relative disregard for social inequality and the mounting costs for the unemployed and other socially disadvantaged groups , and his hedonistic endorsement of private gain , Lawson 's financial methods became the pivot of government policy . |
| 20 | Tony Parsons sits at a table in his tastefully grey-decorated house in the moderately fashionable Canonbury area of London . |
| 21 | Fergus looked at Kenneth , a wealth of sombre disdain in his slightly watery-eyed look . |
| 22 | It was the first time he had used her name , and it sounded nice in his slightly accented English . |
| 23 | And Doctor Morris — a remarkable quirk in his otherwise orderly character , I may say — has always stubbornly refused to make a will . |
| 24 | There is a story told in his otherwise unrevealing autobiography which nicely illuminates the practical side of this pursuit of goodness . |
| 25 | Editor , — It is to be regretted that B V Lewis in his otherwise excellent editorial continues to perpetuate the myth of ‘ post-pill amenorrhoea . ’ |
| 26 | Braithwaite was at least six foot five , and broomstick-thin — all long , bony legs and arms in his immaculately starched shirt and knife-edged trousers . |
| 27 | It is observed elsewhere how his unfortunate mother had been used by Henry I in his immensely grandiose designs . |
| 28 | Early man in his imperfectly organised society say in the animal world a distinct order , which was predetermined , changeless and superior and which , therefore implied a superhuman power . |
| 29 | For a long moment there was silence between them as she stared unseeingly down at her own hand caught in his surprisingly tender grasp . |
| 30 | Though the Doctor was first out , looking around in calm appraisal , Clairvius Dubois almost knocked him down in his surprisingly sprightly enthusiasm to see what Mait 's home was actually like . |