Example sentences of "in [adj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In vain they look for a contrast with the adult world in the family which is yielding and running after them . |
| 2 | In vain you tempt me while our Orchard bears |
| 3 | In vain I sought the ducks penned in safety from the foxes … . |
| 4 | In vain I adjusted the needle . |
| 5 | In vain she had pleaded and begged him to use the train . |
| 6 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 7 | In vain he hoped to carve out an alternative career as a journalist and cricket writer . |
| 8 | ‘ In vain he tries everything he can think of to try and quieten the child . |
| 9 | Only the grandmother seemed above it all , but in private she confided that the atmosphere of bickering recrimination made her feel sad and insecure . |
| 10 | In public Charles accepted the revised status quo with good grace ; in private he blamed Diana . |
| 11 | But in private he affected too much modesty , and before 1922 had been junior to too many of them . |
| 12 | But in private he had already told Lord Home that he should prepare to succeed him , and the ‘ customary processes ’ duly resulted in Home being chosen . |
| 13 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 14 | We 've been in chinky we 've brought our tea . |
| 15 | It is said that in marine water the eggs float but that in freshwater they tend to sink . |
| 16 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 17 | In public dey split |
| 18 | In public they have to boast about the training revolution they are supposedly leading . |
| 19 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 20 | We either ignore it , but if it 's done in public you feel threatened , or you feel that you are showing weakness if you just ignore it . |
| 21 | The paper also discussed erm the proposed topics for discussion at the enquiry in public it explained where the county council 's er relevant policies would be found in the extra electory memorandum it outlined the key objections and the proposed participants for each topic . |
| 22 | He was ruthless , impatient , and , though in public he seemed self-effacing , he was only too aware of his power and the impact he had on people . |
| 23 | In public he continued to argue that Nato 's conventional forces were needed essentially to handle a small incident — the most likely kind of military crisis in his view . |
| 24 | In public he expressed great contempt for the system , but he made use of it to an immoderate degree , particularly by bestowing honours — undue honours — on the least worthy of his personal friends and particularly if the suggestion was made by anyone close to him . |
| 25 | In public he put it all on unemployment . |
| 26 | In public he paid handsome tribute to Modigliani , but the truth of their private relations is more tangled . |
| 27 | And he says while it may be understandable that Channel 4 is reluctant to see so much of their dirty linen washed in public he argues that it is in the public interest that this should happen . |
| 28 | In public she insisted that gambling was the worst of all vices , much worse than alcoholism , and Bernard , a risk-taker perhaps , was no gambler . |
| 29 | ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year . |
| 30 | Jim would n't have let anyone in umless he knew them . |