Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a championship victory earlier in the year , at which circuit did his British fans risk their safety to mob him on the track ? |
| 2 | That argument showed that knowledge of the external world can not be reduced to behavioural dispositions , for the very idea of a disposition functions only in the context of an unreduced grasp on the physical world . |
| 3 | The most important role of the Pinot Noir is to provide much of the body , flesh and grip of a Champagne cuvée especially in the middle term of maturity . |
| 4 | Ask any UK pilot for his interpretation of a performance single still in production and the answer is likely to be Mooney or Beech Bonanza . |
| 5 | Three spurs have also come from late levels : they are uncommon finds on Romano-British sites and suggest the presence of a cavalry unit here in the late fourth century . |
| 6 | That might mean Lewis being fobbed off with a further promise of a title fight sometime in the next year or two , though he insists : ‘ I 'll fight this in the courts . |
| 7 | After another quick change he spent the lunch-hour bicycling around Aldershot at high speed , training for a triathlon event later in the summer . |
| 8 | On the second Tuesday there will be a drama workshop when preparations will be under way for a drama production later in the year . |
| 9 | Bradford could include former Darlington defender Jim Willis , who joined Leicester City for a £200,000 fee earlier in the season . |
| 10 | East Berliners have been offered free tickets for a football match today in West Berlin as well as to a number of concerts and the opera . |
| 11 | Enya as a composer drifts alone in uncharted ether . |
| 12 | In England , for example , a brewer is disqualified from acting as a licensing justice only in the county or borough in which he is a brewer . |
| 13 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 14 | ‘ After lengthy consultation with a heating engineer now in Matteawan , my wife and I installed a pipeless furnace inlaid with emeralds and jade which feeds the warmth directly into an upstairs closet , leaving the rest of the establishment at freezing point . |
| 15 | St Helens have signed Tea Ropati , the New Zealand centre , who was invalided home with a knee injury early in the Kiwis ' English tour . |
| 16 | St Helens have signed Tea Ropati , the New Zealand centre , who was invalided home with a knee injury early in the Kiwis ' English tour , writes Edward Kennedy . |
| 17 | The focus on the addresser , for instance a speaker or an author , constitutes the emotive function , that of expressing the addresser 's attitudes or feelings ; the focus on the addressee or receiver , the conative function , that of influencing the feelings or attitudes of the addressee ; the focus on the context , the real , external situation in which the message occurs , the referential function ; the focus on the code , as when a message elucidates a point of grammar , the metalingual function ; the focus on the means of contact , as in the case , say , of expressions inserted by one party into a telephone conversation simply in order to reassure the other party that they are both still on the line , the phatic function ; the focus on the message itself , the poetic function . |
| 18 | ‘ I had thought about it , ’ she returned , ‘ but I had a fairly frantic call from a theatre director down in Sheffield . ’ |
| 19 | The fuel system is also unusual in that the two wing tanks are linked , but the carburettor is gravity-fed from a header tank immediately in front of the facia . |
| 20 | It was at Jarama that we first saw Derek Gardner 's revolutionary six-wheeled car and it was there , too , that a few silly millimetres deprived Hunt of his first victory of the season , achieved against stern opposition from his team-mate Jochen Mass and a Niki Lauda who had been quite seriously injured in a tractor accident back in Austria and was therefore not entirely fit . |
| 21 | The agony of the debate was over — although both John Nott and Peter Carrington next had to appear in a committee room upstairs in front of an unhappy party meeting . |
| 22 | He 's the first to admit , however , that there are ‘ a few things to be ironed out ’ in a Sampdoria defence still in a slight state of culture shock . |
| 23 | One of the advantages of using an instantaneous gas water heater is that it is much more efficient than using a gas central heating boiler to heat the water in a storage cistern particularly in the summer . |
| 24 | Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ . |
| 25 | AND speaking of thespians , the magnificent Bill Owen will be downing some of the first of the summer wine in a York pub tonight in support of Labour candidate Hugh Bayley . |
| 26 | She died in a nursing home somewhere in Earl 's Court , or Putney , I 'm not quite sure . |
| 27 | He may be sitting in a hospital bed somewhere in Italy at this very moment , wondering who he is and why he knows all these long words like hermeneutics . ’ |
| 28 | This family would probably end up in a concentration camp somewhere in Germany . |
| 29 | A post office in Armstrong Road , Newcastle , fire bombed in last year 's riots , is to reopen inside a chemist shop also in Armstrong Road , on Monday . |
| 30 | It was his first visit to a film festival anywhere in the world . |