Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I first held him in my arms I cried and cried . |
| 2 | So you were — but as soon as they put you in my arms I could see you were no use to me ! ’ |
| 3 | Here all up here , here in my arms I mean I had seven week physiotherapy on this arm , it 's |
| 4 | While Fiona was still on her way the medics stuffed Harry full of antibiotics and other palliatives and put stitches where they were needed , and by the time she 'd wept briefly in my arms he was warm and responding nicely in a recovery room somewhere . |
| 5 | When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act . |
| 6 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 7 | Well I 've made a start in my painting it 's |
| 8 | In my sleep I had dreamed of a … |
| 9 | In my simplicity I duly said the collect , which was listened to with silent interest until the end , when there would be a great burst of laughter , which mystified me . |
| 10 | It would have been difficult enough in English to ask questions without appearing to be prying ; in my Greek it was impossible . |
| 11 | In my experience they are generally rare fossils in the Palaeozoic , but as so often with echinoderms there are localities where large numbers of specimens can be recovered from a bedding plane or two . |
| 12 | THE police tend to get an unfavourable press , though in my experience they have never been anything less than kind , helpful and efficient when I 've needed them most . |
| 13 | In my experience they require an opiate as rapidly as possible as many of the arrhythmias can be suppressed simply by relieving the pain . |
| 14 | In my experience I was acutely aware that Irish lesbians had been active within the English women 's movement for many years . |
| 15 | In my experience I have found exactly the same ; driving is cheaper than rail , even on one 's own and on routes with special rail fares available , like Edinburgh to London . |
| 16 | In my experience I c if I do a plan I have n't got enough time to write the essay . |
| 17 | I also like the area because of its prehistoric relics , abundance of wildflowers and , on a more mundane level , because in my experience it seems to get more than its fair share of decent weather . |
| 18 | Erm in my experience it 's quite normal for erm a period after the close of the enquiry to be erm given to erm the planning authority or authorities to on other matters which are outstanding at the close of the enquiry , whether it 's two weeks , whether it 's whether it 's very very common , it 's it 's reasonable that the authority should have that opportunity to . |
| 19 | ‘ Unfortunately , in my experience it 's seldom of long duration . ’ |
| 20 | Everybody knows how forward they are in this regard in North America , but in my experience it 's just the same in Australia , Argentina , the Soviet Union and elsewhere : for a rain soaked water girdled nation we really do not come very high in the league of comforts and efficiency . |
| 21 | In my experience it 's always , it 's higher than low pay , and I do n't believe that companies go to an area because the payment of wages is low if everything else is not favourable to them as well , in fact low pay in itself does not attract , and conversely , I do n't think the thought 's an impossibility , because I 've talked to potential inward investors , and jokingly , sort of teased them and if you get enough companies coming into Shropshire , then inevitably wages will go up , and they 're intelligent people , and they realize it , and they not the magic ball , and of course when local shopkeepers are concerned about their businesses , then the amount of wages that are available to spend has an effect on your local small company . |
| 22 | In my experience it is . |
| 23 | In my experience it 's a |
| 24 | erm We 've got to be very careful about the word ‘ useful ’ , because in my experience it 's perfectly possible for people to know an enormous amount of history and to make terrible mistakes . |
| 25 | But I mean , now you see erm I , I 've got to er go to since they closed Central , and I have n't got a car erm so I 'm not going to carry thing , I ca n't I 'm with , with arthritis in my back I ca n't , I ca n't carry really only a very small bag , so this was |
| 26 | ‘ In my invitation I told him that in Chester we have everything to offer that is best in Britain . |
| 27 | The film was called Never Take No for An Answer , but in my ignorance I did n't even know what the question was . |
| 28 | Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate . |
| 29 | There are massive quartzites of similar type in the Ordovician of other parts of the world , from Bulgaria to the Canadian Rockies , but in my ignorance I will not risk saying that they are of exactly the same age . |
| 30 | Nicky Ryan can be a defensive man in the wrong company , but after a few minutes in my presence he seems to know I have ‘ felt ’ Enya 's music , and he relaxes considerably . |