Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bounced and rolled between them and lay in the shadow of the chair . |
| 2 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 3 | He turned his head slightly towards me and spoke in the direction of my tie . |
| 4 | The archaeologist ran in front of them and stood in the middle of the road . |
| 5 | Much useful research can originate from the idea that just turns up , the hunch or the observation of something that happens in the street which triggers off a line of thought . |
| 6 | I can not bear to think of her as laid in the dark grave . ’ |
| 7 | Erm I was n't , I did n't know what you were trying to get at when you were bringing up the miles per annum that he was doing , I can understand the flying side of it but driving in the car , yes you need to know that he 's doing a lot of miles and that there 's , you know , the there 's the potential danger and everything there but I did n't understand why you need his specific miles per annum . |
| 8 | Three thousand miles away in North Hollywood , in November , the man closes the door behind him and stands in the foyer taking off his hat . |
| 9 | But my dogs have always , much rather come shopping with me and sit in the , . |
| 10 | All the children who were living far away , they brought a sandwich and a flask with them and eating in the desk in the classroom . |
| 11 | You have the choice of either trying to minimise the effect or going with it and rejoicing in the exotic feel of a semi-desert in your back yard . |
| 12 | At one time we would have to hire a man in for a month , eating with us but sleeping in the barn . |
| 13 | His journals , which he has published at regular intervals ( the fourteenth volume appeared recently in France ) bear witness to the enormous interest he takes in everything that happens in the world outside him , and to a human being scornful of bourgeois conformity , almost an anarchist , and a convinced pacifist . |
| 14 | Hurrying under cover of darkness up to Roscarrock Hall where a real priest was visiting from Ireland or Spain , they whispered their confessions to him , received absolution from him and knelt in the Roscarrock family chapel to hear a proper Latin Mass and to receive in their mouths the living sacrifice , the Body of Christ . |
| 15 | Golden motes drifted from it and hung in the air . |
| 16 | It is so different from anything that happens in the islands today . |
| 17 | The giant nanny had unlocked the door for him but kept in the background and gave me no sign of recognition . |
| 18 | Bodie got out of the car and strolled past the two men , standing quite close to them and browsing in the window of the shop before which they stood . |
| 19 | Woolley turned his back on them and sat in the middle of the cloth . |
| 20 | Boglins — Various , from small , £1 , to one that glows in the dark , £30 . |
| 21 | John was unlike anyone Anne knew with his views on everything that happened in the world . |
| 22 | Proof of debt forms must be sent out by the official receiver or trustee to every creditor who is known to him or identified in the statement of affairs ( r 6.97 ) . |
| 23 | Similarly , in the spring of 1940 , he assured the French Head of State , Marshal Pétain , that Spain would remain neutral , while he also assured Ciano that although Spain was materially unable to participate in the war , he was not indifferent to it and believed in the victory of the Axis . |
| 24 | Her forehead had small beads of sweat on it that glistened in the lamp light . |
| 25 | If anyone has mislaid their gift envelope , please use an ordinary one and just put your name and Birthday Scheme on it and place in the offering bag . |
| 26 | It is a sensitive area , well placed for keeping an eye on anything that happens in the Thames , and , seaward , in the North Sea . |
| 27 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 28 | People smiled at me and sang in the streets . |
| 29 | Employed in a maisonette in a London suburb , she ate by herself and slept in the junk room , enduring agonies of loneliness and misery . |
| 30 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |