Example sentences of "[n mass] in [art] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
| 2 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
| 3 | ‘ Some folk in the city see him in a different light . |
| 4 | Bates is desperate for more success and Porterfield spent more than £6million in an attempt to produce it . |
| 5 | You do n't get 5,000 people in a gallery giving you a cheer . ’ |
| 6 | It will target specifically chosen people in an effort to help them make links with the changing climate . |
| 7 | When he came to Toronto , in Canada , there were 500,000 people in the streets to meet him . |
| 8 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 9 | People in the village knew him by his dourness , by the distance he put between himself and them . |
| 10 | ‘ People in the village said she was a witch . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm rather lame people in the village say you 've caught arthritis , and I caught it a year or two ago but my brain has n't entirely given out . |
| 12 | One possible way of getting round the problem of the ‘ doorstep ’ explanation is to write a letter to people in the sample to let them know in advance of the survey and the coming call by an interviewer . |
| 13 | The butty ( or the chargeman ) had at his command , as people in the industry put it : the stick — complete discipline ; the carrot — piece-rate pay administered for individual production through the chargemen ; and the extra threat-dismissal or relegation back to ‘ the market ’ [ i.e. the casual labour system ] . |
| 14 | Mrs Scott said : ‘ The people in the hospital said she is a healthy , very fit , strong girl . |
| 15 | Most people in the district made it their business to find out all about newcomers , who were kept under fairly strict scrutiny before they became accepted . |
| 16 | Some people in the crowd tackled them back and poles from the placards were flying through the air . |
| 17 | The idea of touching people in the crowd or letting people in the crowd touch him was something that had not occurred to him , but to be beautiful and that remote — you 've got to get a crowd to touch him because that was what really got them wild . |
| 18 | This store in Thame is one of those which will continue trading , but people in the town say they are not surprised other shops have run into trouble … |
| 19 | People in the administration see it differently . |
| 20 | Some of the people in the street used it when in funds but my father and mother were not among them . |
| 21 | We tested this out by taking it around the office and the people in the office thought it was a bit boring we er thought it was great for the youngsters who probably like it so er erm and the merchandise we 've actually , we 've made up certain things , T-shirts and , and , and wacky items that again er relate to , to young people so that they get into the , the , the theme of the thing and the , the whole year carries forward on a , on a certain colour theme and , and , and so on , so er we 've done our best as sailing coaches not only learning to be marketeers again the money , where 's the money come from ? |
| 22 | But people in the office regard him differently now . |
| 23 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 24 | Most of the older people in the parish remember me as Florrie Scoble . ’ |
| 25 | People in the business say we 've changed our habits . |