Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors propose two ways forward : they encourage a change in attitudes and they call for some specific legislative measures . |
| 2 | Hepzibah says when they lived in Norfolk she had an awful time looking after him because he was always in fights and he was young then , too young to hurt anyone much . |
| 3 | She just said a bed , so I told her there were special beds that we are very useful in fact very necessary in cases and we tend to be short of them |
| 4 | This case illustrates the principle of mutuality in contracts and it is also of particular interest with regard to the question of the right of the innocent party to rescind the contract . |
| 5 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 6 | The operator has the choice of turning down one microphone — if for instance the class is working in groups and you only want to hear one group at a time — or of recording the combined sound of , say , teacher and student microphones on one audio track . |
| 7 | She sets you some work to do in groups and you enjoy it . |
| 8 | Many clownfish species on the other hand also live in pairs but it is relatively easy to acquire a compatible pair . |
| 9 | I mean , most people are in an absolute state of terror in exams and it comes across . |
| 10 | Buildings were in flames and I could hear the screams and moans of the trapped and injured . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't explain how I feel in words and I do n't know what the future holds , ’ said Tamas , who has been granted political asylum and has applied for Hungarian citizenship . |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of them had babies in buggies and they and the kiddies looked absolutely terrified . |
| 13 | And er we did a couple of weeks erm teaching in schools and we helped run a erm a lunching club for old people . |
| 14 | I 've talked to some of my son 's teachers about bullying in schools and they say that these children whom no one has ever laid a finger on can not imagine the pain they inflict on others . |
| 15 | erm a great deal is talked about democracy in schools and you very often have all kinds of organisations allegedly which take democratic decisions . |
| 16 | Because she 's good in earthquakes and she makes a great cup of tea . |
| 17 | a wind tunnel is where they put this , put the car in stands and they blow air at it , and they little smoke trails that show how the air travels over the car . |
| 18 | Yes , of course it 's important to invest in pictures and it 's a very good way of getting to know people , business people and so on — and to show them what sort of person you are . |
| 19 | And everybody that sent cards , I mean it was really great I mean get well cards are sort of things that you see in shops and you never really think about it , but when when you 're lying flat on your back in hospital and you get cards for people , I mean it really does give you a lift . |
| 20 | We are in arrears but we 're gon na be |
| 21 | Your washing-up lady left a message that she was three weeks in arrears and she was going to see her brother in Brighton — whatever that means — anyway I took it out of the petty cash and paid her . |
| 22 | No I 'd like to put receipt in books and it 's , they 'll probably turn round and tell me it 's all so I ca n't , I ca n't offset it against the tax , or V A T or whatever . |
| 23 | Reading for our , I mean er , I supply my own car , my church has recognised that whether I 'm probably if I pay the tax and the insurance erm and I just thirty two , thirty five that 's but when I 'm in business or I 'm in provinces and I 'm allowed to pay what , ten fifteen |
| 24 | Although ( until its last days ) all votes in both houses of the Supreme Soviet were unanimously in favour of government proposals , both specific and general policy criticisms were made in speeches and it seems certain that these were sometimes seriously considered by party and government in formulating future policy . |
| 25 | Neighbours are useful in emergencies and they provide help in countless small ways , such as shopping , taking in deliveries , admitting tradesmen , providing transport and looking after each other 's children for short periods . |
| 26 | Guilt flooded her in waves and she put a hand to her temple . |
| 27 | It did n't just start off with human beings , they s started in sectors and it spread . |
| 28 | She would joke about the young ‘ uns with fat bums , riding around in cars and we would marvel at the so-called disabled people dismounting briskly from buses or climbing energetically from orange-badged cars . |
| 29 | She delighted in visitors and she was moved by all their woes and troubles . |
| 30 | All right the abbey is in ruins and I doubt whether that impotent old priest up at the Old Rectory has much on offer . |