Example sentences of "in [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the seminary library he came across the works of the medieval Franciscan theologian Duns Scotus [ q.v. ] , and almost instantly recognized in them the philosophical backing for his own instinctive perception of the uniqueness of each being and created thing . |
| 2 | When you sort out your notes , Sergeant , you might include in them the additional information that my car was parked at the other end of Boundary Drive , the end furthest away from Glenfair Road , see ? |
| 3 | They have seen Pop Will Eat Itself close up and seen in them the terrible cost of debauchery . |
| 4 | In them the one certain thing about man is his mortality , and this temporal restriction was the decisive factor that distinguished men from gods . |
| 5 | However , the dissemination of this knowledge to newcomers has the additional purpose of inculcating in them the common sense that is necessary to police Easton . |
| 6 | The documents he mentions are those which now have in them the forged primatial passages , and the only question which arises is : were these passages already in them when Lanfranc wrote these words , or were they added later ? |
| 7 | His age and status induced in me the normal mixture of deference , fear and cheek . |
| 8 | If ‘ There has just taken place in me the mental process of remembering … ’ means nothing more than ‘ I have just remembered … ’ then to deny the mental process would mean to deny the remembering . |
| 9 | These ideas are no better illustrated than by Massine in his The Three-Cornered Hat . |
| 10 | It was well received in the horticultural press , but drew fire from the advocates of formal gardening , especially ( Sir ) Reginald Blomfield [ q.v. ] in his The Formal Garden in England ( 1892 ) . |
| 11 | In his The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa ( 1922 ) he referred obscurely to considerations of ‘ policy ’ as well as of economy which had guided his thinking . |
| 12 | Early in 1831 he began transplanting mature trees , becoming expert in their removal ; he described his techniques in his The British Winter Garden ( 1852 ) . |
| 13 | He developed a sociological approach to the study of church history in his The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches ( 1911 ; E.T . |
| 14 | When the pope wrote to Anselm that ‘ we behold in you the venerable persona of St Augustine the Apostle of the English ’ this was more than a complimentary politeness . |
| 15 | A lifelong member of the Oxford Cottage Improvement Society , Violet Butler joined the Charity Organization Society 's local branch , and her links with the Christian Social Union encouraged in her the unsectarian broad-church outlook that was taken for granted within a family so deeply influenced by Thomas Arnold , T. H. Green , and Henry Scott Holland [ qq.v . ] . |
| 16 | Nothing her eye fell upon aroused in her the slightest flicker of interest , except a bulletin board with removable plastic letters which declared , under the day 's date : J. Pringle & Sons welcomes Dr Robin Penrose , Rummidge University . ’ |
| 17 | In the epistle to the Hebrews ( by an unknown Christian of learning and sophistication ) there is equal emphasis both upon the spontaneity and fullness of Jesus ' humanity and upon the faith that in him the eternal Son of the Father has come to unite believers to himself ; he is the pioneer of our salvation , our representative bringing to the Father and to the heavenly company those who put their trust in him . |
| 18 | I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame . |
| 19 | Events which begin by offering the boy exciting adventure end by teaching him — about people , about statecraft — and confirming in him the steadfast loyalty to the Empire which is evident in his later exploits . |
| 20 | He also had in him the wrathful patriarch of the Protestant religion , for he was the product of the two warring faiths , of an Irish Catholic mother and an Irish Presbyterian father , and of the Sunday ritual my mother would repeatedly describe as if narrating the auspicious early life of a saint . |
| 21 | What had she seen in him the other day that had been so disturbing ? |
| 22 | A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle . |
| 23 | These attitudes transposed easily to the Commonwealth point of view , class warfare and nationalist agitation both arousing in him the same confidently emollient response . |
| 24 | Young wheat especially , so pure and tender , woke in him the same emotion that he had when observing the face of a sleeping baby . |
| 25 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 26 | I remember waking with my face in it the first whole night we spent together . |
| 27 | As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism . |
| 28 | In it the two front-raised items ( castle , dabble ) appear to be randomly front-raised rather than governed by any systematic rule . |
| 29 | The second stage is a kind of broadside display ; it is called the ‘ parallel walk ’ , and in it the two males walk back and forth along side each other . |
| 30 | This state obtains its name from the fact that in it the general conditions of production and consumption , of distribution and exchange remain motionless ; but yet it is full of movement ; for it is a mode of life . |