Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she approaches it in a better frame of mind . |
| 2 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 3 | Caroline Durkan , the GDA senior projects executive handling the scheme , said yesterday : ‘ It places us in an awkward position if we try to get cash from the public sector if the private sector do not see the benefits of Citywatch . ’ |
| 4 | It establishes him in a special relationship with God . |
| 5 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 6 | Looking at Philip Swallow now , as he seats himself in a low , upholstered chair facing her , Robyn has difficulty in recognizing the jet-set philanderer of Rupert Sutcliffe 's description . |
| 7 | ‘ He reveals Himself in a receptor-orientated fashion ’ ( Kraft 1979:169 ) . |
| 8 | The document says it is impossible not to notice how society , for the most part , makes human sexuality banal , since it interprets it in a reduced and impoverished way , ‘ connecting it only with the body and egoistic pleasure ’ . |
| 9 | A rhetorical figure does not disrupt a conventional meaning randomly ; it shifts it in a particular direction . |
| 10 | It finds her in a maximum security prison on a far-off planet . |
| 11 | But having left till the morning when she was due , I could n't even let Cathy know because it puts her in an awkward position , suddenly turn up on the day . |
| 12 | Lovelock sees this dual function as a vital bridge , but others argue that it puts him in an invidious and altogether too powerful position . |
| 13 | The micro-processor , enabling previously labour-intensive work to be carried out by robots , will give us greater leisure ; the leisure industry is labour-intensive ; therefore , paradoxically , instead of reducing the number of jobs , the micro-processor has actually given us the potential to create more careers than it destroys — but only if we plan the leisure it gives us in a comprehensive and professional way . |
| 14 | ‘ He proves it in a hundred other ways . |
| 15 | And he likes it in a certain place and nobody must touch it . |
| 16 | It leaves it in an indefensible position . |