Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 2 | ‘ I know what was happening as soon as I felt the familiar ache in my lower back and a rush of blood , ’ she says . |
| 3 | It 's in my lower back . |
| 4 | With the onset in the later stages of unmistakable labour pains in my lower abdomen all doubts were resolved and I knew I had to do something about it . |
| 5 | Either side of the church the ground slopes away sharply , and at one time , in my earlier visualization , a stream defied the laws of gravity to flow towards the church and then away again . |
| 6 | I want you and Sheila to know how very much I appreciate the kindness shown to me in my earlier mood of despondency . |
| 7 | Now if I can just refer as I did in my earlier submission to the possible results of that , I suggested that the requirement for the new settlement to be located beyond the outer boundary of the green er York greenbelt , should be rolled into criterion one , the need to avoid the greenbelt . |
| 8 | Thus in my earlier example The sky is blue , only knowledge of the situation of the utterance will enable the decoder to interpret it as either deictic or generic . |
| 9 | In my earlier reply I told the House what action the United Kingdom Government have taken , in concert with our partners in the European Community and other civilised countries , to condemn utterly the conduct of the Burmese Government and to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 10 | While certainly in my earlier comments , I did say that it is highly desirable that there should be employment in any new settlement , it can not in my view be the case that th York has certain erm Greater York , but York in particular as a city has certain employment requirements as a result of decline in certain industries . |
| 11 | Erm I must say that on the clothing scene , because I did criticize it in my earlier statements , er that when I was so young I thought it was so frumpy and I was so pleased when I was married and got my own income that , you know , I could go elsewhere and choose something . |
| 12 | This was in my earlier days when carrying out general duties ashore . |
| 13 | in my earlier advance . |
| 14 | To that extent it strengthened the hand of the Prime Minister in my earlier period . ’ |
| 15 | The Social Policy Subcommittee on 16 November 1992 made a change in the priority for your application within the overall package from the indication made in my earlier letter . |
| 16 | Meantime , I should value , as requested in my earlier letter , copies of 1991 -93 PCC publications and annual reports . |
| 17 | I shall deal with that matter more fully in my later remarks . |
| 18 | In my older day , okay , I 'll write a book . |
| 19 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I played football in my younger days till I had a bad injury in my knee which I 'm now suffering from — chronic arthritis . |
| 21 | In my younger days the Church was the very heart of the community , and was always the place to bump into friends and family . |
| 22 | People have been attacked by the eagles and in my younger days there was an occasion when I myself attacked a visitor . ’ |
| 23 | In my younger days , ’ he bellowed , pulling his shoulders back martial fashion , ‘ I was keen as a greyhound , fast as a falcon swooping to the kill . ’ |
| 24 | There was a lengthy pause before he admitted , ‘ An unhappy experience in my younger days made me too dogmatic about certain ideas that became stuck in my head . |
| 25 | Can I , for the benefit of members opposite who , who always seem to believe that people on this side of the chamber are townies and do n't know anything about anything other than street lighting for the benefit of members opposite and for the public gallery outside , can I say that in my younger days , a million years ago , I rode with hunt . |
| 26 | While Collier and Rosaldo have relatively successfully characterized one type of ‘ brideservice economy ’ , they are too sweeping in their wider generalization ; for brideservice economies are not always associated with the cultural values these authors stipulate . |
| 27 | Basically there is everything to say , for most roads are not understood at all , at least in their wider context . |
| 28 | Some stratified hypersaline lakes are permanently warmer in their lower layers than at their surface , sometimes because of volcanic heating , more often due to solar warming through the ice and upper layers of water . |
| 29 | There are shallow inlets and islands in the Portsmouth area , but the main river valleys , although aggraded in their lower reaches , are not rias , presumably because the rivers have brought down so much alluvium that they have filled any rias which may have been present , whereas the rivers of Pembroke and south-west Ireland have been unable to achieve this . |
| 30 | I. In their lower courses the larger 5th Order rivers flow in very wide valleys across the lowland plains . |