Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still virginal in my dealings with the music press , I was to be despatched to the Reading Festival to cover this bastion of the British rock calendar for NME . |
| 2 | In my talks to teachers I often repeat these five views . |
| 3 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 4 | In my wanderings to the Staff Colleges and branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society all over the world , the USAF Academy , Colorado Springs , and also that incredible edifice of aeronautical and technical learning — the Smithsonian in Washington , the main question that always crops up and in almost entirely the same way is " how was it possible to maintain morale ? " |
| 5 | ‘ My dear girl , it was no hardship to hold you in my arms for a while , I assure you ! ’ |
| 6 | She was in my arms on January 15 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Then you would n't say no if I asked to take you in my arms under the pretext of inviting you to dance . ’ |
| 8 | In my dream I was carrying a small child in my arms down a long road . |
| 9 | My reply is that , to me , being cheated would have meant not being able to hold my beautiful son , Sam in my arms after nine months . |
| 10 | Shall I tell her that you did not come running to me , that instead you melted in my arms after looking at me since I came today with large , yearning eyes ? |
| 11 | yet he sleeps in my arms like the summer sea . |
| 12 | We had a phone call yesterday from a a civilian detention officer working at Trent who lives in my village of Tollerton who wants to be a special constable to work just in Tollerton . |
| 13 | I attended the medical centre for my test and stood in my underpants for an hour in a shiny-clean waiting room with yellow walls and a kitten sitting in the corner . |
| 14 | Maybe I mentioned about the fillings coming out on this side of my mouth and at the back , so I ca They took it out in my living room and hypnotized me to forget , hypnotized walking about in my sleep with it , to sleep , got me in the chair and done it , got out of the house , programmed me to go to that dentist in , which I did do instead of going to Mr at . |
| 15 | When I awoke , without having parted in my sleep with the perception of my wretchedness , the clocks of the Eastward churches were striking five , the candles were wasted out , the fire was dead , and the wind and rain intensified the thick black darkness . |
| 16 | One of my TV sets lives in my cottage beside Hampstead Heath , the other in my penthouse by the sea at Folkestone . |
| 17 | I yield to no one in my admiration for the great Iron Duke himself , but my favourite general of the Napoleonic wars was General Kutuzov . |
| 18 | ( This is a borderline case between normal and deviant justification , or rather it points to one of the many ambiguities in my formulation of the normal justification thesis . ) |
| 19 | In my tradition on a Christmas day and Hogmanay , we have the old fashioned Scottish Ceilidh |
| 20 | I have already given one example of how this can happen , in my description of the induction of a lens by the eye cup . |
| 21 | I should be more particular in my description of this singular man . |
| 22 | There is no point at all in my talking to those people , except on a preliminary basis ; they 're not that interested in my views . |
| 23 | However , the problem is that , if this is true , there is nothing whatever that I , in my capacity as a subject of experiences , can coherently and unequivocally say about myself as a corporeal subject ( not even that I do have a body ) ; and hence that , strictly speaking , the theory itself can not be clearly stated ! |
| 24 | I I will talk about the fund as I found it in my capacity as a very recent chairman . |
| 25 | ‘ I intend going to all 21 community centres across the city in my capacity as community services chairman . |
| 26 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 27 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 28 | I said , " Yes " , and I plugged it that I 'd done it while I 'd had Louisa and that 's what I think went in my favour in a way . |
| 29 | Pure terror-driven reflex brought the mini-blazers in my wristbands into action . |
| 30 | I try to keep my diary clear and concentrate on collating and editing all the material that has been arriving in my in-tray over the previous weeks . |