Example sentences of "in [num] [noun sg] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better still , if you are in a position to present these baits on tackle to fish you can see , then you may learn more about fish behaviour in one hour than you would in a season of fishing ‘ blind ’ . |
| 2 | I 've never walked the whole 72-mile coast path in one go as I tend to head to Dorset at weekends and just explore different areas on day walks . |
| 3 | ‘ When you have 36 holes in one day as we did , the bag can weigh a ton ; your legs feel like lead . |
| 4 | So that all her figures are going to be all in one column so you can check them easily , you can add them up easily , you can find the total . |
| 5 | She seemed to shed ten years in one second as she hollered , ‘ Oy , Richard ! ’ at the top of her voice across the car-park . |
| 6 | So this is not to do with the price of eggs , it 's to do with erm eggs in one basket , and er obviously er the basic theory with any investment advice is do n't put all your eggs into one area er in one basket if you like . |
| 7 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 8 | So there is this simplicity going in one direction while we 've got this sort of tritone bass line going in another . |
| 9 | This process would continue indefinitely , with reversals taking place at intervals of as little as 100,000 years or as much as one million years , but with the overall result that the compass spent about as much time pointing in one direction as it did in the other . |
| 10 | In bays , the tide tends to flow around the bay in one direction as it rises and then reverses as it falls . |
| 11 | it 's solely for , it 's erm i , yo you could have six or seven parcels all picked up in one consignment if it 's picked up by that carrier |
| 12 | And in one sense so it was , for by 1150 almost half the bishoprics in France still escaped crown control . |
| 13 | He belonged with them , They were like him , as undernourished in one way as he was in another . |
| 14 | If a thing is objectively so for one choice of means it is so for another ; it is a contradiction to estimate the capabilities of a subject class or race in one way when they are tractable and in another when they are not . |
| 15 | Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership . |
| 16 | Jane clutched her beige cardigan tightly in one hand while she searched for a tissue in her handbag with the other . |
| 17 | She had taken the curtain in one hand when she heard a man 's voice . |
| 18 | They crept up the back staircase to the third floor , testing each tread for creaks before stepping on it , nightclothes bunched in one hand lest they trip . |
| 19 | Although most borrowers take out a loan over 25 years , five years is the average amount of time homeowners spend in one property before they move to another . |
| 20 | Although most borrowers take out a loan over 25 years , five years is the average amount of time borrowers spend in one property before they move to another . |
| 21 | She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another . |
| 22 | Nevertheless a 1914 government report cited the case of a woman found guilty of cruelty for locking her children up in one room while she went out to work for 10/ a week . |
| 23 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 24 | Even Charlie felt things were on the up when Mrs Smelley 's smiling face appeared , to buy more potatoes for her boarding house in one morning than he would normally have hoped to sell a regular customer in a month . |
| 25 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 26 | I see some of these big photo-ops , the Berlin Wall , revolution in Prague — I did n't think would come out , but I 'll talk about it — I just see that it 's a manipulation of the press ; photographers all know to stay in one spot so we 're not in each other 's shot . |
| 27 | As for Mr Gorbachev himself , he is desperate for the party to stay in one piece because he knows that , once on their own , neither hardliners nor reformers would be likely to want him as their leader . |
| 28 | Schellenberg 's office at Prinz Albrechtstrasse had a military camp bed in one corner for he often spent the night there . |
| 29 | Jealous of Lubor ? ’ and did n't know where she was when , as if he did n't think much of sitting opposite her in one chair while she had the huge couch all to herself , Ven suddenly moved from his chair and came and sat down next to her on the couch . |