Example sentences of "in [pron] pocket [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sabrina zipped up her anorak as she stepped out into the cold night air and rummaged in her pockets for the keys to the Audi Coupe . |
| 2 | She fumbled in her pocket for the key then let us in the side door . |
| 3 | She felt in her pocket for the key . |
| 4 | He 's got his hands down in his pockets in the . |
| 5 | After another series of beeps , he put it in his pocket beside the explosives , and made some adjustments to the blaster 's power setting . |
| 6 | He put the chicken in a roasting bag and felt in his pocket for the vial of thallium . |
| 7 | He looked from the overcoat to the grimy , torn green flannels and the scuffed brown shoes laced with uneven lengths of string , then felt in his pocket for the cigarettes he had bummed off a group of Swedish students in Bonn a few days earlier . |
| 8 | As he edged past the dustbins he reached in his pocket for the keys to the Mercedes . |
| 9 | He felt in his pocket for the key it was not there ! |
| 10 | Mr. Crowther reached in his pocket for the key but Matthew was there before him . |
| 11 | From a devotional text which he carried in his pocket throughout the war , Potter seems to have been a devout Puritan . |
| 12 | Quit Maxwell Communications Corporation after four months as chairman-designate with £100,000 in his pocket before the Cap'n 's death . |
| 13 | In fact , I thought I saw him with his hand half in his pocket after the game . ’ |
| 14 | You may think , quite rightly , that you need a spare transmitter but do realise that you can not store this in your pocket during the ferreting or that will be the transmitter picked up by the receiver ! |
| 15 | But even if you 've got plenty of money in your pocket at the moment , you must n't let others take advantage of your generous nature . |