Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had lost members and with them revenue both in this country and overseas . |
| 2 | For the first time since I cried my heart out in Puerto Rico — I was crying . |
| 3 | I wanted to wear my hair up in a knot but Elise said you 'd prefer it loose like this . ’ |
| 4 | combing my hair out in a darkened room |
| 5 | I need to be able to see the path ahead in order to plan my route well in advance , or else I may get myself into an awkward position . |
| 6 | Should I see my sister alone in a foreign country — blind ? |
| 7 | ‘ I will go to bring my Gohar back in five days , ’ Astrik went on dreamily . |
| 8 | My father 's leg , locked solid , has given me my sanctuary up in the warm space of the big loft , right at the top of the house where the junk and the rubbish are , where the dust moves and the sunlight slants and the Factory sits — silent , living and still . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 10 | Herbert Matthews , who was close to the Cuban revolutionaries from the late Sierra Maestra days , wrote that ‘ I made up my mind early in the revolution on the basis of many talks with all the top Cuban leaders that their greatest preoccupation was the conviction that the United States was determined to overthrow the Castro regime ’ ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 11 | So there I sat , my mind still in Fisherton-de-la-Mare , hurtling north-west up the motorway , feeling most unco-operative . |
| 12 | Back at the Olympik , I looked up a passage in Pascal which had been in my mind earlier in the evening : |
| 13 | we used to have my light on in this archway , yeah . |
| 14 | I won my semi comfortably in 10.19 seconds , just a fraction slower than Bringmann and Marie-Rose . |
| 15 | On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door . |
| 16 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 17 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 18 | Somehow , though , she managed to keep her head , ‘ Of course , ’ she replied , but quickly followed up , ‘ Though I always prefer to write my work down in longhand first . ’ |
| 19 | I intend to make my home here in this town , and if I can do anything to ensure that the people here are treated fairly I shall do it . |
| 20 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 21 | Thing is , I 've got my heater right in front of my wardrobe , and I 've to move it so someone 'll open my bloody wardrobe . |
| 22 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 23 | No because I got my gallbladder out in January . |
| 24 | They put a safety rope around my waist just in case . |
| 25 | Even so , when I stumbled across Miss Diana Dors — a permissive sex-symbol of some notoriety twenty years ago — advancing its claims in a popular magazine and asking us to cast our minds towards ‘ my era back in the fifties ’ , I was not immediately sure whose side she was supposed to be on . |
| 26 | But you who knew me , pass on these words : that I squandered my youth for my country , that while the ship was fighting I kept to my post up in the cross trees and , when she sank-I went down with her . ’ ’ |
| 27 | Can I feel one side of my body more in contact with the floor than the other side ? |
| 28 | Somerville had my record straight in the 1959 Register , but mysteriously erroneous in 1970 ! |
| 29 | I was expected home for my husband only in the evenings . |
| 30 | This made me feel in later life that I was very unattractive , because I had had so many negative thoughts about my appearance earlier in my life . |