Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journey itself was pretty tiring , taking 21 hours in total and we arrived at the hotel at 5am . |
| 2 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 3 | It was in vain that she told herself he was a stranger , a man who had probably by now forgotten her . |
| 4 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 5 | All our efforts to restore unity among Christians will be in vain if they are not carried out in total fidelity to the faith in Christ … handed on by the Apostles . ’ |
| 6 | The eternal quest for immortality will be in vain until we know the answer — unfortunately , we do n't . |
| 7 | I push , prod , drop keys and re-attempt entry in vain until I realize that the only resemblance between the car into which I was breaking and entering and my own car is that they were both white . |
| 8 | The Manager joined Andrew Cunningham underground and together they continued the search but it was in vain and they were forced to return to the surface . |
| 9 | Liberal Democrats recognise the importance of the things we own in private but we also know the value of what we hold in common . |
| 10 | The BBC 's coverage of the election caused great offence to Mr Major and senior Tories , who voiced concern in private that it wanted to see the return of a Labour government to safeguard its future . |
| 11 | Pharmacists are not only willing to talk to you about medicines but about many other aspects of health as well — and in private if you prefer other customers not to hear . |
| 12 | The logic of this is defensible enough where there are members of the public to be terrified , but it was subsequently held that the offence need not take place in public , on the grounds that bystanders might become just as terrified in private as they would in public . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , Cooper could be just as difficult in private as he was in public , and Richardson moved out in 1960 . |
| 14 | I have told my hon. Friend in private and I am happy to tell him in public that if the doctors concerned say that when they installed the computer they did not know that the list size criterion existed , I am happy to accept that as a statement of fact . |
| 15 | It is certainly the sort of thing that Garel-Jones says in private because he often describes himself and his family in similar terms . |
| 16 | Didier Pironi told me they were about to leave the circuit for a hotel to meet in private where they could not be coerced by their bosses and , as it happens , along with a half-dozen other early colleagues , my car was well placed to follow the bus as it drove off . |
| 17 | so they got that and the carpet it had been seven ninety nine in Allied and it had been reduced three ninety nine for a week |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm doing all this because I believe in Labour and I love talking to people on doorsteps , finding out what matters to them . |
| 19 | They were talking in Spanish and I was only half awake . |
| 20 | if it 's all the fellas are in right and I 'm in here , and Shirl 's out there cooking does n't worry me and I do n't bother to it , because it 's good fun is n't it ? |
| 21 | The bombing was , she argued , intended to dislodge the Qaddafi regime in Libya-even though it was civilian property as much as air-bases that were bombed , with much loss of life amongst children and others . |
| 22 | Well I know that but there is English names on a lot of stuff except certain stuff and then it 's in foreign and it 's |
| 23 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 24 | It is a bit like taking a poll of general election candidates asking them to state in public whether they think that they will win . |
| 25 | Under the legislation , which has Government backing , it will become an offence to carry a knife in public unless it specifically relates to work , religion or national costume . |
| 26 | While exploiting the conquered territories France constantly proclaimed in public that it had come to Indochina on a " mission civilisatrice " to help the backward nation into the light of the twentieth century . |
| 27 | A week earlier , Michael Heseltine , whose challenge in the leadership election contest brought about her fall , had still been adamant in public that he would not stand against her . |
| 28 | Justice is done in public so it may be discussed and criticised in public . " |
| 29 | For maximum effect he was required to repeat his humiliating confession in public before he was burned . |
| 30 | " The whole thing 's a farce , of course , they 've known and loathed each other for years , but the official version of this world-shaking meeting of titans has to take place in public where it can be duly recorded — and one of us must be there , and why should it be me on a Sunday morning when I 've got an angelic assistant ? |