Example sentences of "in [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh fairest of creation , last and best of all God 's works , creature in whom excelled whatever can to sight or thought be formed , wholly divine , good , amiable or sweet , how art thou lost ? |
| 2 | ‘ As a profession we are apt to be accurate , cautious , consistent , and reticent , and in thee lies our strength ; but if they do not leave enough room for impulse and imagination , they can be a weakness . |
| 3 | Something in them says something to something in me . |
| 4 | And therefore , helping third world countries and the people in them to generate their own well-being . |
| 5 | Of course er they have about erm well I 'm not sure , about twenty eight or thirty thousand gallons of diesel stocked up there , and of course in them buying it in bulk like that they get it at a cheaper rate . |
| 6 | something in them spiked your grief |
| 7 | We put little messages wishing the Tommies ‘ good luck ’ in them to cheer them up . |
| 8 | The schools of the 1960s and 1970s continue to function with the teachers in them adapting their style to meet contemporary needs and expectations . |
| 9 | These are mean , niggardly and unnecessary regulations , and I call on all hon. Members who have any decency in them to throw them out . |
| 10 | The other people in the other shops , would they live in them do you think ? |
| 11 | They knew nothing of Judaism , did not feel Jewish , and yet had enough Jewish blood in them to make them somehow different from their former friends , if not quite enough for them to be welcomed unreservedly into the Jewish community . |
| 12 | But though an enormous amount of material about such families has been accumulated over the past century , neither the social anthropologists nor the compilers of genealogical handbooks ( an aristocratic occupation ) have taken sufficient interest in them to make it easy to generalise with any confidence about such family groups . |
| 13 | Stockton North MP Frank Cook said : ‘ You can picture the scene : a consultant walks into a care unit with five or six patients struggling , fighting for their lives and says : ‘ Hands up those who have 15 breaths left in them to make it round the corner . ’ |
| 14 | There 's quite a few restaurants with people in them having their tea . |
| 15 | Some of his anecdotes from his student days were hilariously funny , featuring enough females in them to convince his listener that he 'd been the object of female adulation all his life until very recently . |
| 16 | You look better in them mind you |
| 17 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |
| 18 | For the conflict of emotions in me caused me to burst into tears . |
| 19 | Your stupid behaviour would normally result in me sending you to prison but I feel I can take a different course . ’ |
| 20 | What flaw in me allows him to do this ? |
| 21 | The child in me dominates my personality — which has good and bad aspects — but I realize I need to explore and exert the adult and parent aspects of my character too . |
| 22 | Well there 's no point in me watching it if I 'm going to record it for you . |
| 23 | ‘ If you do n't know yourself , there 's no use in me telling you . ’ |
| 24 | Having said that , I used to do an act which culminated in me tucking my genitalia between my legs , bending over and shouting ‘ Bulldog ’ . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It would be inappropriate in me to say it felt un-British , ’ Carrington said , at last . |
| 26 | There 's no point in me reading it out is there ? |
| 27 | Something in me says something to something in them . |
| 28 | I will be lacerated with drink tonight and , although the replay will be very difficult , the eternal optimist in me says we 've got a chance . |
| 29 | The cynic in me says it is because the larger firms do not do small audits and because abolition would cause problems for the ACCA , which would have more difficulty maintaining an audit regulatory presence as fewer of their members would be auditing . |
| 30 | Our respective manners proved so widely different , that it would have been quite presumptuous in me to do anything but separate from an undertaking upon which I could only have been a clog . ’ |