Example sentences of "and in [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one patient with three strictures , classification as benign was based on radiological studies and in two other patients it was based on the gross endoscopic appearances . |
| 2 | Moreover , what we can know , such as our duties and obligations to each other and to God , is just what we need to know ; and in many other cases we have beliefs sufficiently well-founded for the purposes of our everyday life . |
| 3 | At that time , the mullahs were the country 's principal teachers and in many rural areas they had become considerable men of property , taxing the people and buying land for themselves . |
| 4 | Over the next few days he was never out of the press and in one emotional moment he confided to a journalist that he felt betrayed by Scotland . |
| 5 | Simon McBurney brings a fidgety , sweaty intensity to the role of the troubled king , and in one superb scene he is discovered standing on top of a wardrobe , gazing miserably down on the happy innocents beneath him as his heart is gnawed by destructive jealousy . |
| 6 | His performance was pitiful , five goals flew past him from a bewildering array of angles , and in one pathetic ritual he ended up wrapped round the goal-post , in a knot of utter hopelessness . |
| 7 | Her face grimly determined , she lunged , and in one swift movement he tossed his shield aside , grabbed the pitchfork , and pulled . |
| 8 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 9 | ‘ Certainly , Cabannes did superbly at the back of the lineout today but he was a regular target and in all other areas I gave Back the edge . |
| 10 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 11 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 12 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 13 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 14 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 15 | I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever . |
| 16 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 17 | She felt as though she could n't get enough of him , and in that split instant she made her decision . |
| 18 | Timothy looked straight into Topaz 's eyes and in that split second she knew without doubt that he was aware of her love for Andrew . |
| 19 | There was clearly a close friendship between them , and the Office gives a moving account of his efficacy in curing her of some kind of fit : He came and found her mute , but when he had seated himself at her window and they had eaten together , it chanced that at the end of the dinner the recluse wished to sleep , and oppressed by slumber her head drooped towards the window where God 's saint , Richard , was reclining , and as she was leaning a litle on that same Richard , suddenly , with a vehement onslaught , such a grave vexation took her in her sleep that she seemed to wish to break the window of her house , and in that strong vexation she awoke , her speech was restored , and with great devotion she broke out into the words " Gloria tibi Domine " , and the blessed Richard completed the verse which she had begun . |
| 20 | Shakily Fernando eased away from her and in that terrible second she hesitated , fearing the rejection he had once threatened her with . |
| 21 | And in that one house we used to do thirty thousand or more — we 'll call it thirty thousand — in three hangings . |
| 22 | I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if you went to the other end of the scale and in that same season you looked at all horses that were offered at precisely two to one on , then you 'll find that there were twenty two horses which were offered at those odds and fifteen of them won . |
| 24 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 25 | And in that little book it said , If the firm provided space for bicycles or what have you they were responsible for them . |
| 26 | Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up . |
| 27 | Except the life has gone out of me and in some curious way I hardly care . ’ |
| 28 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 29 | The contributors will largely be from the educational faculty at the University , and in this first programme I have with me Professor Tony Becher , who is Chairman of the Education Area . |
| 30 | Once it disappeared altogether , and although a fair degree of brightness remained in the sky , the land became very dark and in this pathless place it was not easy for Stephen to find his way . |