Example sentences of "in the [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland have looked the most dangerous side in the championship when they have moved the ball . |
| 2 | Nicolle gave the Channel Islands their first ever victory in the championship when he edged out the defending champion 7-1 , 3-7 , 7-6 , 1-7 , 7-2 . |
| 3 | Prost 's result does little to further his cause in the championship if he has to drop his lower scores but Senna now knows that he must win the final two races in Japan and Australia . |
| 4 | There is something wrong with the relationships , there is as well as somebody doing the abuse , there are other people who are somehow complicit in the abuse because they 're allowing it to go on , they must have known , surely they must have known , why did n't they do something ? |
| 5 | Her London home was used as a hostel by the Scottish rank and file who needed a bed in the capital as they were posted from one place to another , and all were made welcome . |
| 6 | Sanders ca n't be all that interested in the Plan if he takes a few days vacation rather than give the presentation . |
| 7 | In the West although we are only 20 per cent of the world 's 3,000 million we have 90 per cent of the world 's income , 90 per cent of its gold reserves , 95 per cent of its scientific knowledge , 70 per cent of its meat and 80 per cent of its protein . ’ |
| 8 | Moreover , mystical movements are no more prevalent in the West than they have ever been from the Dionysian rites to the temple of Aimee McPherson . |
| 9 | And Iran is as unpopular in the West as it has ever been . |
| 10 | It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East . |
| 11 | Debt earns interest just as easily in the West as it does in the Third World . |
| 12 | Try to imagine , if you will , the ferocity of the reaction in the West if it had been Saddam Hussein who had poured napalm down on Kurdish villages three weeks ago ! |
| 13 | Denis had sat downstairs in the sitting-room while it was going on , praying fervently to the Child of Prague , or was it to Uncle Mick , to protect his little European wife from all her pain and bring her safely through . |
| 14 | ‘ He always wants candles in the sitting-room when it 's dark , even though he 's blind . ’ |
| 15 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 16 | sometimes there are odd days in the vac when we do other things and we shut , you |
| 17 | ‘ John was away a great deal , Laura and I travelled to join him in the constituency when we could and inevitably there was uncertainty and strain in the air . ’ |
| 18 | Rolling bream are not frightened bream , nor do they hang around in the swim if they 've been spooked by an escaping fish . |
| 19 | This was star billing indeed for a junior minister and Sir Robin Day mischievously asked Mr Major why Mrs Shephard was in the line-up if she was not a member of the Cabinet . |
| 20 | There 's at least two other poor sods trudging around in the wet when they could be clocking off and going home . |
| 21 | Its shares shot up 10 p.c last week and the company , Portugal 's largest quoted stock , is hoping to ride the tide of interest in the escudo when it launches a sale of shares and convertible bonds later this month to raise $300m of new capital . |
| 22 | ‘ There was plenty doing in the smithy when it was only horses on the farms . |
| 23 | I was just takin' off my apron in the smithy when I says to the guv'nor : |
| 24 | Avoid flailing the vegetation in the gaps in the hedges because it prevents natural regeneration . |
| 25 | He could not find any and he realised that it would be the voice of Dame Melba which rang out in the backstreets as he advertised the fact that he had a gramophone for sale . |
| 26 | Her shots tore off one man 's ear and wounded another man in the buttocks as he fled from the pub . |
| 27 | The sun was dark red behind the trees now and their voices echoed in the valley as they slid on the frozen horse pond in the yard . |
| 28 | The exercise of these powers can not be successfully challenged in the courts unless it can be shown that the Home Secretary has acted unreasonably or perversely . |
| 29 | When hearing such tales those in the jungle would become quite terrified , and I once met a group of Chewong on the move with all their worldly belongings , having abandoned their settlement in order to resettle much deeper in the jungle because they had heard rumours that the Malays wanted Chewong heads . |
| 30 | He recalled an evening 's carousing in the jungle when he challenged Durrell to compose some verse in honour of the ‘ unrhymable ’ Mrs Araminta Whitley . |