Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman and to my hon. Friend in a moment . |
| 2 | Er , if they do n't , the commencement will not take place and we will continue on the existing boundaries , that would , and I 'll give way to my honourable friend in a moment , that of course would create massive inconvenience , I see no er real reason why the other states er which have yet to ratify should not do so er but my honourable friend I think wanted to intervene with a further thought on this point so I give way to her . |
| 3 | I felt him rip the tape off my hands , but he kept my left arm in a hammer lock . |
| 4 | Everything in the house froze solid — the water in the kettle , even my false teeth in a cup beside my bed . |
| 5 | Before being offered my current job in a family centre , I applied for dozens , and I know at least two rejections were based on the fact that I am a man . |
| 6 | Well my only deficiency in a temper . |
| 7 | In my first year in a London art school my two major preoccupations were whether you really could see William Turner 's late canvases as a precursor to French Impressionism , and how the hell I could afford to clothe myself in the right gear to make a stunning impact on my new friends at the Gateways . |
| 8 | The nearest I could get was my first night in a barracks in Shropshire , at the start of National Service . |
| 9 | In October last year I had my first lesson in a Cessna 152 with , the school 's senior instructor , and immediately caught the bug . |
| 10 | ‘ Double bed , actually — and I keep my spare aid in a drawer of the tallboy ’ — he looked directly into Morse 's eyes again — ‘ next to the handkerchiefs and the cufflinks and the arm-bands . |
| 11 | She said , ‘ Do you think I 'd arrange to meet my own father in a place like this ? ’ |
| 12 | I thanked him and hung up , and with considerable contentment took my two bags in a taxi to Union Station . |
| 13 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ I first met David in the summer of 1968 when I was living with my two children in a ground floor flat in an old house in Beckenham . |
| 14 | Janice said suddenly , throwing herself at me and enveloping my upper torso in a hug that would have done credit to a grizzly . |
| 15 | Only the entry for 15 August reveals some alleviation of my anorexic anxieties in a reaction which is , at the same time , typically anorexic : ‘ O-level results came today . |
| 16 | Shakespeare referred to her three-fold nature in A Midsummer Night 's Dream : |
| 17 | In the early years of the 1970s each of these groups was involved through their professional organisations in a campaign against what they saw as the damaging consequences of the 1960s liberalism . |
| 18 | Twice-widowed Rodi , 52 , still gets up at 7.30am every day to drive to her full-time job in a laboratory . |
| 19 | Surely it does n't require a degree in sociology to realise that people who invest their hard-earned cash in a quality house in a quality development are not going to be over the moon at having that kind of to-ing and fro-ing take place outside their front gates ? ’ |
| 20 | However , all of our established clients will also be visiting us at our showrooms where they know we retain our most important pieces which are shown to their greatest advantage in a purpose built gallery rather than on temporary stands . |
| 21 | Although its electron spin resonance ( ESR ) activity indicated the presence of some monomeric radical , its low solubility in a variety of solvents ( except when accompanied by decomposition ) coupled with the absence of a chlorine NQR signal indicated an oligomeric and ionic structure . |
| 22 | Its characters live their absurd lives in a décor that might have been invented by Osbert Lancaster or Sir John Betjeman at their best . |
| 23 | One of these is in essence the orthodox Christian one , expounded by St Augustine and then by Catholic and Protestant teaching alike , but finding its clearest expression in a book which does not mention Christ at all : Boethius 's De Consolatione Philosophiae , a short tract written c . |
| 24 | This whole-word visual representation is then used to address and so locate its associated pronunciation in a lexicon of spoken word forms known as the speech output lexicon . |
| 25 | A deep groan broke from the depths of his throat as he lifted her trembling figure towards him , crushing her body ruthlessly to his hard bare chest , his mouth closing over her trembling lips in a kiss of fierce , urgent possession . |
| 26 | She dropped her lower lip in a pout . |
| 27 | Only very detailed research will establish whether the legal definition of a particular market or fair reflected its economic importance in a region . |
| 28 | Clare Wood has found herself restricted to doubles this week after injuring her right ankle in a basketball accident 10 days ago . |
| 29 | She extended the forefingers of her right hand in a V , and jabbed at Rodriguez 's faceplate . |
| 30 | At last , with her right arm in a sling and a large piece of plaster on her forehead , which she had knocked against the post , she was taken up to Mr Fennell 's suite . |