Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radicals of the Agency committee were as concerned as Buxton in his plea to the slaves on the eve of their emancipation that they ‘ by every motive of duty , gratitude and self interest … do their part towards the peaceful termination of their bondage ’ . |
| 2 | He named Mark Flatts in his squad at Sheffield United only a week after giving 18-year-old Ian Selley his debut . |
| 3 | Below : The Dreadnoughts did not operate to Fleetwood in their heyday , and it is only the restored car 59 which has appeared there in recent years . |
| 4 | Strictly visual language to make scientific points had been used as early as 1555 by Pierre Belon in his Oiseaux , where he put the skeleton of a man and a bird side by side to demonstrate their unity of plan , or homology . |
| 5 | But they wo n't have injured duo John Hendrie and Willie Falconer in their bid to down the Reds . |
| 6 | ‘ We considered that but Sir John Dacourt , an honest old soldier , was with Falconer in his room when he broached the bottle . |
| 7 | Rachel asked the switchboard to page Dr Markham in his meeting , then she sent for Greg and the factory ambulance . |
| 8 | A black-clad Famlio contingent had a marched through the door , with Pulvidon in its midst , blank-faced and hot-eyed . |
| 9 | The Arab League envoy Lakhdar Ibrahimi took the plan to all the various Lebanese parties during July , visiting Gen. Aoun in his Baabda headquarters on at least three occasions . |
| 10 | There is , however , some conflict between detail provided by Gregory in his Histories and that to be found in his other works ; moreover earlier evidence is at odds both with specific points in the Histories , and also with their general interpretation , which sees Clovis 's reign as the manifestation of divine support granted to the king after his conversion . |
| 11 | Not that Evan in his youth was one of these . |
| 12 | As the princess arrived back in London , amid new rumours of a marriage rift , it was disclosed that 11-month-old Louis Lonsdale , the only son of Laura and James Lonsdale , died on Tuesday in his cot . |
| 13 | As the princess arrived back in London , it was disclosed that 11-month-old Louis Lonsdale , the only son of Laura and James Lonsdale , died on Tuesday in his cot . |
| 14 | Could we , could we have it from next Tuesday in my room ? |
| 15 | This suddenly appeared to confirm an impression gathered by Vanderbank in their contact , a strange sense that his visitor was so agitated as to be trembling in every limb . |
| 16 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 17 | His lips were moving quietly as he mouthed to himself what he would do if ever he had Corbett in his power . |
| 18 | ‘ The rest to some faint meaning make pretence / But Shadwell never deviates into sense , ’ wrote Dryden in his verse satire . |
| 19 | As well as Irises , Mrs Charles S. Payson had a superb Picasso in her collection : Au Lapin Agile of 1905 . |
| 20 | It is not surprising that Dubček in his ascendancy gained the support of as many ‘ Stalinists ’ as backed the ‘ conservative ’ , Novotný ; nor that Novotný 's record was subsequently depicted as more ‘ Stalinist ’ than it was . |
| 21 | But world-travelled Francie , who is heavily involved with the St. Canice GFC in his home town , is now only too delighted to adopt a ‘ parochial stance ’ as football fever rages all around him . |
| 22 | ‘ She is a grown woman now , she has changed a great deal since she last came to stay with us eight years ago , ’ said Mrs Riddiford after meeting Kylie in her hotel after the concert . |
| 23 | The dancer , on her way back to the United States , took Dana in her VW to Lisbon , Porto and Bilbao , where I met them , then we drove all the way to Paris . |
| 24 | Fleur had encouraged Dana in her ambition to become a model , and she had lived to see her daughter carve a place for herself in the fashion world . |
| 25 | ROOM AT THE TOP Max Egremont in his garret at Petworth |
| 26 | We must be cautious and surprise Lady Lina in her chamber . |
| 27 | So says ex-Daily Mirror editor Roy Greenslade in his book , Maxwell 's Fall , due on April 27 from Simon & Schuster . |
| 28 | It spans 36 centuries , from 1600BC to AD1974 — the date of the Turkish invasion which left the ancient city of Famagusta in their hands . |
| 29 | Two other bailiffs are named by Thotte in his Registrum Roffense , they are Petro de Widmore and Adam Lylye , who are described in Latin as Tunc Ballivio de Halling ( meaning bailiff at this time ) , later Adam Lylye is described as Serviant de Halling . |
| 30 | This is demonstrated by Oliver Rackham in his study of Hayley Wood . |