Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The mid-western farmer will go into VR as he reclines in Rio and operate his automated plough . |
| 32 | Holland also accepts in retrospect that the left damaged its prospects in this regard by hitching its industrial policy to opposition to the EEC , so that the pro-EEC verdict of the 1975 referendum reduced the credibility of the left generally . |
| 33 | Her phone rings in Southwold but no one answers . ’ |
| 34 | His flat is modernist and bleak , his clothes are grey , she dresses in red and puts enough flowers in his kitchen to make up for the decimation of the rainforests . |
| 35 | He dresses in silk and his cufflinks , tiepins and chunky rings sparkle with diamonds set in gold . |
| 36 | Weaver and tapestry worked Ingrid Parker lives in Devon but sells her work mainly in America and has recently completed a tapestry for a church in Austria . |
| 37 | ‘ My son lives in England and he saved up the vouchers to buy the ticket and posted it to me . |
| 38 | Twenty-six-year old Gary Ashton , who lives in Southend-on-Sea and imports cane furniture , looks unsure when asked how he will raise all the money , then replies that he will probably re-mortgage his flat . |
| 39 | and then pick her mother up cos she lives in Creep as well , she ca n't stay at her mother 's house cos she 's just |
| 40 | Tt I think she lives in Clapham or something . |
| 41 | NWW is basically graphic designer Stephen Stapleton , who lives in Ireland and is responsible for several productions ( The Legendary Pink Dots , for example ) and lots of art work . |
| 42 | CHARLES GLASS , who writes about the LA war zone ( page 100 ) , lives in Ireland and is a part-time roving foreign correspondent for ABC News . |
| 43 | She now lives in Suffolk and continues her association with the Britten legacy as a guest teacher at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies at Snape Maltings . |
| 44 | ‘ It was very much a case of starting from scratch introducing new systems and procedures , ’ said George , 58 , who lives in Billingham and at times had responsibility for 132 different premises and up to 2,500 employees . |
| 45 | Then there is the fishing cat Felis viverrina , meaning the ferret-like cat , which frequents swampy ground , has slightly webbed feet and can , as its name suggests , hook fish out of shallow water with its claws ; the flat-headed cat , Felis plamiceps , of Malaya , Borneo and Sumatra which preys on frogs , fish and small birds and the marbled cat , Felis marmorata , which lives in Sumatra and Borneo and is only slightly larger than a domestic cat . |
| 46 | He is married , lives in Essex and is a keen golfer . |
| 47 | Scott lives in Uddingston and is a keen football enthusiast . |
| 48 | He also lives in Amsterdam and has been working , off and on , for Hendrique since I982 . ’ |
| 49 | There are spokespeople ( or speakers ) and individuals whose characters and strong views shape the movement : Sara Parkin , who lives in Lyons and is co-secretary of the co-ordinating body which links the European parties ; the Swiss Daniel Brélaz who , in 1979 , became the first Green to be elected to a national parliament ; Petra Kelly , the uncompromising driving force in the Fundi ( fundamentalist ) faction of Die Grünen , whose pragmatic factions , the Realos ( realistic reformers ) and Superrealos , seek to establish working relationships with the mainstream Left ; and a number , not very large number , of others . |
| 50 | He speaks a bit like Marie , so I suppose he lives in Scotland as well . |
| 51 | It needs a heart of stone not to sympathise with a figure in this predicament — a figure on whom it may rest finally to decide whether South Africa lives in peace or at war . |
| 52 | The brag lives in rivers or lakes and the object of all his eccentric ploys is to lure an unwary passer-by into the water for amusement . |
| 53 | Ron lives in Gourock and is a keen sea angler and river fisherman . |
| 54 | Instead of the stock stories about Bogarde 's early films , we went for a bit of drama as he lives in France and Arthur Marshall hated the French . |
| 55 | ‘ A letter dropped through the post from the President of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro , inviting me to the funeral , ’ said John Kennedy , a Conservative Party member who lives in Barking and is a distant relative of Nicholas . |
| 56 | Now 42 , Halom lives in Tynemouth and is general manager of North Shields FC , though the club £400,000 in debt is presently run by a receiver . |
| 57 | Neneh grew up with her brother Eagle Eye — currently a struggling actor in New York — and shared father Ahmadu Jah with a half-brother and half-sister , Cherno and Tityo ( Tityo lives in Stockholm and is signed to Arista records as a singer ) . |
| 58 | He lives in Londonderry and began his career in Richmond . |
| 59 | He is married , lives in Falkirk and is a keen golfer . |
| 60 | There is an interesting contrast between still lives in pastel and those in oil paints . |