Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [indef pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just a strange feeling and of course the inability to contact anyone in the Shill 's room . |
| 2 | This would give her the opportunity to say something in time for the next morning 's American newspapers . |
| 3 | Or did the Prince expect something in return ? |
| 4 | Surely the Board have someone in mind . |
| 5 | It will be argued that the decision to put something in other words is essentially a decision about style , a point which is , perhaps , anticipated by Burton-Roberts when he describes loose apposition as a rhetorical device . |
| 6 | My point is simply that the decision to put something in other words is a decision about style , which like all decisions about style , is constrained by the search for relevance . |
| 7 | But the impact on the camp lacked nothing in effect on that account . |
| 8 | The story stirs something in our memory . |
| 9 | In some parts of the Highlands , the industry employs one in four of the workforce . |
| 10 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
| 11 | The only , the , there is only the project engineer can get into the databases to put anything in , or , or their clerical support , to get anything into the general notes about that particular |
| 12 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 13 | The balance sheets of public sector organizations are not relevant for making judgements about creditworthiness anyway , so the consolidation adds nothing in this respect . |
| 14 | The proportion averaged one in five for Inner London as a whole , but at borough level ranged from almost 30 per cent in Haringey to under 10 per cent for Kensington and Chelsea and was in fact highest for an outer borough — Brent — at 33.5 per cent . |
| 15 | The doorkeeper said nobody in costume had left the theatre . |
| 16 | But figures produced for 13 years by the Dundonald nursery show that the nursey created one in 10 new plants every year instead . |
| 17 | But she received a warm smile from the housekeeper for her efforts , and as the housekeeper said something in Czech to her employer and , presumably with something to do elsewhere , left the kitchen , Vendelin Gajdusek turned his attention to Fabia . |
| 18 | A cook from the kitchens took one in the eye and stumbled backwards with his hands pressed to his temples . |
| 19 | This is one of the cases in which the need to express something in definite terms can deflate the argument . |
| 20 | He refused an invitation from the EC 's energy authority to investigate the possibilities of translating electricity , generated within green plants , into a new source of fuel : he did not care for the clause giving the EC the right to suppress anything in the eventual reports . |
| 21 | It was my problem , not my husband 's , but he had the patience and the imagination to try everything in the book ! |
| 22 | Not while the old man was here anyway , and he seems to spend most of his time sitting on the wall doing nothing in particular . ’ |
| 23 | Earlier in the day the spokesman had forecast that talks of some form could take place this week after the first week of the strike produced nothing in the way of dialogue . |
| 24 | We note that the court found nothing in the wording of section 2 which persuaded them that the course taken in A. v. H.M. |
| 25 | But the other had somebody in it . |
| 26 | The other had nothing in it but some make-up , a purse containing two pounds and some silver and a packet of cigarettes . ’ |
| 27 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
| 28 | Eubank is n't a fucked-up man venting aggression in the ring , he 's a skilled professional , although he has the punch to destroy anyone in his division . |
| 29 | The Imams do not have the authority to change anything in the divine revelation of the Koran , but they are able to interpret it , through the divine guidance with which they are endowed . |
| 30 | If , in the real world , you could n't always realise the perfection of the model , the miniature , the diagram , at least the pattern had something in it to be pleased about . |