Example sentences of "in [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | enabled them to buy their Council houses , at er cheaper rate because they 've lived in them a long time and its , its given a lot of people more independence , unemployment would of happened who ever was in power |
| 2 | Startled , she looked up at him , met his eyes , and saw in them a searching expression that made her heart jerk in astonishment . |
| 3 | Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight . |
| 4 | I find in me A strange compulsion to direct all men E'en to the way they stand and walk or move . |
| 5 | Create in me a pure heart , O God |
| 6 | All of them were English-born and helped to imbue in me a loyal appreciation of the Royal Family . |
| 7 | It 's as if somewhere in me a certain amount of good-will and kindness is manufactured every day ; and it must come out . |
| 8 | I think they sensed in me a possible convert to their beliefs , merely because I was curious , or perhaps they genuinely liked me — I do n't know . |
| 9 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |
| 10 | But there is no invention possible , whether it be philosophical or poetic , without the presence in the inventing subject of an abundance of the other , of the diverse … there is no invention of other I's , no poetry , no fiction without a certain homosexuality ( interplay therefore of bisexuality ) making in me a crystallized work of my ultra subjectivities . |
| 11 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 12 | This report , the standard books , the growing number of translations of the many books of the Scriptures , and discussions with scholars in Rangoon University or simple yet thoughtful Buddhists in the villages , aroused in me a reverent admiration for the Buddha , a deep interest in his teaching , and a nagging need to build some bridge in my own mind between the two religions . |
| 13 | Be they shimmering Aegean jewels , or blue , mist-shrouded moments in the Outer Hebrides , they all induce in me an overwhelming urge just to drop everything and be gone . |
| 14 | Although I 'm not especially interested in food , and would never drive more than ten miles for any culinary feast , the lunch was so perfect , so many times better than anything we ever get at home , that it induced in me an unlikely surge of ecstasy . |
| 15 | Jean-Claude saw in me an exotic combination of youth and money . |
| 16 | It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an " intellectual " , and a superior person generally . " |
| 17 | And I was with her till I left her somewhere in Southampton , I 'd been in her a good while too . |
| 18 | Co-star Madeleine Stowe is also convincing as the formidable , spirited Cora Munro , falling for the rugged , beef-cake charms of Hawkeye who instils in her a joyous understanding of the wide open spaces and star spangled skies . |
| 19 | It had been wickedly symbolic , stage-managed to stir in her a cold feeling of dread . |
| 20 | The plaintiff was just eighteen at the time she was in her A level year at school . |
| 21 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 22 | Her dear sweet silky head was a breath from Jay 's lips , but Jay sensed in her a wild creature that scares easily , and held her tongue , her lips , her sanctified body , in check . |
| 23 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 24 | For his part , Petion was feeling no actual fear as such , but these trappings of a bygone age , which could represent good or evil depending on the choice of the individual worshipper , instilled in him a definite sense of wariness . |
| 25 | It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem . |
| 26 | Zoltan meets Gael by ‘ coincidence ’ , recognizes in him a fellow soul , and seeks Gael out when his problems become too much for him . |
| 27 | People who know him well say the Kuwaiti affair has affected him deeply , chipping away at his pro-western instincts , and instilling in him a deep pessimism about the future of the region . |
| 28 | What we do know is that his full conversion to Christianity released in him a literary flow which only ceased with death . |
| 29 | Sport ; , I will argue , can have a most stimulating , uplifting impact on the participant and instil in him a fresh thirst for achievement in sporting and other circles . |
| 30 | Very quickly this initial impression vanished as she recognised in him a dazzling personality , a person who had only to enter a room and the pace of things altered . |