Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two innermost trees were cut down in 1771 as they were considered to be impoverishing the soil and shading the flowers in the Garden , but the others stood guard by the watergate for another hundred years and no doubt caused interested comment from river travellers . |
| 2 | The journey itself was pretty tiring , taking 21 hours in total and we arrived at the hotel at 5am . |
| 3 | Even without tolls , country roads are likely to be three times as busy in 2025 as they are today . |
| 4 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 5 | It was in vain that she told herself he was a stranger , a man who had probably by now forgotten her . |
| 6 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 7 | All our efforts to restore unity among Christians will be in vain if they are not carried out in total fidelity to the faith in Christ … handed on by the Apostles . ’ |
| 8 | The eternal quest for immortality will be in vain until we know the answer — unfortunately , we do n't . |
| 9 | I push , prod , drop keys and re-attempt entry in vain until I realize that the only resemblance between the car into which I was breaking and entering and my own car is that they were both white . |
| 10 | The Manager joined Andrew Cunningham underground and together they continued the search but it was in vain and they were forced to return to the surface . |
| 11 | The plan was essentially that first worked out in 1756 but it had now been elaborated and refined . |
| 12 | Copernicus 's astronomy was bold in 1543 because it clashed with the background assumption that the earth is stationery at the centre of the universe . |
| 13 | One in four smokers dies prematurely : of these , one in ten will die of lung cancer and more than one in eight if they smoke over 25 cigarettes a day . |
| 14 | One in four smokers dies prematurely : of these , one in ten will die of lung cancer , more than one in eight if they smoke over 25 cigarettes a day . |
| 15 | Chelsea manager Ian Porterfield was just as happy saying : ‘ It 's now seven wins in eight and I want the lads to believe in themselves . |
| 16 | Liberal Democrats recognise the importance of the things we own in private but we also know the value of what we hold in common . |
| 17 | The BBC 's coverage of the election caused great offence to Mr Major and senior Tories , who voiced concern in private that it wanted to see the return of a Labour government to safeguard its future . |
| 18 | Pharmacists are not only willing to talk to you about medicines but about many other aspects of health as well — and in private if you prefer other customers not to hear . |
| 19 | The logic of this is defensible enough where there are members of the public to be terrified , but it was subsequently held that the offence need not take place in public , on the grounds that bystanders might become just as terrified in private as they would in public . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , Cooper could be just as difficult in private as he was in public , and Richardson moved out in 1960 . |
| 21 | I have told my hon. Friend in private and I am happy to tell him in public that if the doctors concerned say that when they installed the computer they did not know that the list size criterion existed , I am happy to accept that as a statement of fact . |
| 22 | It is certainly the sort of thing that Garel-Jones says in private because he often describes himself and his family in similar terms . |
| 23 | Didier Pironi told me they were about to leave the circuit for a hotel to meet in private where they could not be coerced by their bosses and , as it happens , along with a half-dozen other early colleagues , my car was well placed to follow the bus as it drove off . |
| 24 | Muggers went around in threes when she was out . |
| 25 | After the series in Australia , Mike Brearley announced that he would not be able to tour in 1980–1 as he wanted to continue his studies in psychoanalysis , and the England selectors decided to appoint a new captain for the start of the 1980 rubber . |
| 26 | so they got that and the carpet it had been seven ninety nine in Allied and it had been reduced three ninety nine for a week |
| 27 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 28 | I failed my school cert in French way back in 1948 so it was a question of starting out all over again . |
| 29 | Well what I might do is just put one soap in each cos it |
| 30 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |