Example sentences of "in [adj] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |
2 | lifting off suddenly in mid-bend is n't such a good idea either — in short you just have to be aware all the time of how much power you have in so little car . |
3 | I therefore My Lords conclude that the Bill on this point should stand as it is and in general I strongly support my Honourable Friend the Home Secretary on the plans that he now puts before the organisation of police authorities in tackling the serious problems of law and order which we all face in this country today . |
4 | Truman was not prepared to do so as yet , despite the fact that in general he fully supported Acheson . |
5 | But in general it just means that we 've arrived , we 've discovered that nobody 's trapped , and we go away . |
6 | That 's quite an interesting one , if you consider as students how do you learn erm in general you probably do n't learn that much in lectures because for example we know from experiments that we all have a limited attention span . |
7 | In particular they never forgot Dennis and Joan Riddiford , Millie 's brother and sister-in-law whose life together in Australia was cruelly cut short when Dennis contracted malaria . |
8 | On the day of the interviews I noticed that Jenny Ball was smartly dressed and in particular I also saw that she was wearing a wedding ring ; an item of jewellery that she seldom wore when I saw her in school on other days . |
9 | Nowhere in particular I just want it to be the weekend so I can lie in bed . |
10 | And I remember one game in particular it always stuck in me mind . |
11 | ‘ We are not interested in selling computers , but in interconnecting them ergonomically . ’ |
12 | It 's Bury St. Edmunds interest in Asian we generally go if we 've got an Asian prisoner , we have n't , perhaps it 's of opinion . |