Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old lady was in raptures over him , however . |
| 2 | Both the controllers and the deviant group construct tacit theories in order to explain each other , and such theories are put to the test in interactions between them but never by both groups together . |
| 3 | One of these problems was the need to introduce the study ( traditionally neglected in institutions like ours ) of modern foreign languages . |
| 4 | There are enough access difficulties already in existence for us to worry us . |
| 5 | These would be kept in reserve by you until they were required in answer to cross-examination . |
| 6 | They stand in judgement of us all . ’ |
| 7 | He was too arrogant , too proud , too ready to sit in judgement on her , but — |
| 8 | Yet these are the lice and the slugs who sit in judgement on me , the trendy , shallow-minded , illiterate time-servers , the Giffords of our time , who can destroy reputations , dishearten the innovators , bully the imaginative , slander the pure , cheat the innocent , mock the talented and sully the cleanest of spirits . |
| 9 | The parts of the Old Testament which cause greatest offence are those which depict God as a God of anger , who orders his servants to act in judgement for him . |
| 10 | Best of all , he was tongue-tied in admiration of her . |
| 11 | She 'd done nothing but run from Dane from the very start ; even now , when she was here in Sheffield with him , she was still running , still afraid of the heartache she must surely face if she allowed the relationship to deepen . |
| 12 | And er that 's right there was only four of us then and erm this little coffin was there and my sister was trying to feed him a piece of apple while he was in his coffin , saying do you want a piece of apple in Welsh to him . |
| 13 | ‘ The real question posed for our decision is not whether an action lies in respect of pre-natal injuries but whether a plaintiff born with injuries caused by the pre-natal neglect of the defendant has a cause of action in negligence against him in respect of such injuries . |
| 14 | ‘ The real question posed for our decision is not whether an action lies in respect of pre-natal injuries but whether a plaintiff born with injuries caused by the pre-natal neglect of the defendant has a cause of action in negligence against him in respect of such injuries . |
| 15 | This was the first time she had admitted openly that all was not well ; and I was forced to reassure her , for otherwise she might find herself in sympathy with me , she might come to my side , and this was unthinkable , for to be understood by her was a prospect beyond endurance . |
| 16 | THE German national coach , Berti Vogts , an old friend of Andy Roxburgh , came out in sympathy with him yesterday by blaming Scotland 's selection plight for this evening 's game at Ibrox on UEFA , European football 's governing body , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 17 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 18 | " In such a way that she felt I was in sympathy with her , of course . " |
| 19 | He held his audience all through his speech you felt he was in touch and in sympathy with them and they with him . |
| 20 | She enjoyed Charles 's little displays of anger , especially when she was in sympathy with them — as , on matters such as the Venables , she usually was . |
| 21 | And they would have a king again in sympathy with them . |
| 22 | I 'm not in sympathy with you , you see . |
| 23 | You , you 're talking to the wrong man on this , I 'm not in sympathy with you , you see . |
| 24 | I said , ‘ If there is naught else in Paradise for me but this delight which I have in my own nature , no other blessing will I want and not even the houris and sugarcane of Paradise will divert me from it . ' ’ |
| 25 | Of the two thieves crucified with Jesus , it is only to the one who expresses his penitence that Jesus responds , ‘ I promise you that today you will be in Paradise with me ’ ( Luke 23:39–43 ) . |
| 26 | As new foods are introduced into a child 's diet , there may be temporary bouts of diarrhoea in response to them , although these do not necessarily develop as soon as the new food is eaten . |
| 27 | Something of the administrative framework of the social services will have been gleaned from the preceding chapters on particular social problems and the services created in response to them . |
| 28 | Whether a full Porter-style analysis or some less rigorous approach is used , those key determinants ( or key factors ) and action in response to them should be the linchpins in the corporate control system once the strategy is established . |
| 29 | And how one interprets ‘ facts ’ has a significant effect on the actions one might then take in response to them . |
| 30 | But why did the theories of feminism develop in response to them in the 1960s and not , say , in the 1930s when novelists cast an equally critical eye over women 's lives ? |