Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun prp] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother-in-law would be looking at the clock too , perhaps walking up and down with Catherine in her arms . |
| 2 | Along with Googol in his affectedly fluted black silk on-board suit , these three seemed to be a trio of tall-standing predatory bats who eclipsed the false star-void of the walls , wherever they stood , like dense hungry shadows eating the fire-flies of the night . |
| 3 | For the chinless chap in his chalk-stripe blue suit , strolling to wherever he performs the daily ritual of being ‘ something in the City ’ , or the geezer negotiating the early morning traffic in from Romford in his late model Ford and Italian sweatshirt , their individual style says clearly : I am here and this is where I want to be , you can tell exactly what and where that is from looking at me . |
| 4 | Sometimes he would find himself indulging in fantasy , would picture them together in London in his new flat . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 6 | Learning to fly in the 1930s , Nancy flew all over Australia in her Gipsy Moth and Leopard Moth and this book chronicles some of her escapades . |
| 7 | ‘ You need a highchair , ’ declared a long-aproned and straw-boatered young man , grinning down at Thomas in his buggy . |
| 8 | This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages . |
| 9 | An aggressive visiting delegation would be dusted down by Ken in his best James Cagney style , leaving me looking untypically reasonable and friendly in bringing the meeting to a conclusion . |
| 10 | THE newly-found Aarseth-Brewington comet should brighten rapidly this month as it sweeps southwards through Ophiuchus in our morning sky , perhaps to become a naked eye object before it dips too far south to be seen from Britain . |
| 11 | THE newly-found Aarseth-Brewington comet should brighten rapidly this month as it sweeps southwards through Ophiuchus in our morning sky , perhaps to become a naked eye object before it dips too far south to be seen from Britain . |
| 12 | The idea of a fountain as a metaphor for creativity occurs elsewhere in Coleridge in his preface to Christabel . |
| 13 | Owen was for trying to get word through to Harry in his prison ; there were men in Leighton who had kin within the castle , and for the sake of Master Harry whom they remembered well might be willing to risk the carrying of a message . |
| 14 | The princess puts one over on Charles in our fun phone-in |
| 15 | Now that it is getting married , IBM is tearing up its object date book and says that existing object projects and software using technology from companies such as Versant Object Technology Inc and Objectivity Inc will be moved over to ObjectStore in their next releases . |
| 16 | There was only one topic , it would seem , in the staging-posts they passed on their way , in the halls of Kineth of Angus and Gillocher of Mar , of Malpedar of Buchan and of Morgund of Moray , before the fires of Hlodver at Dingwall and Odalric of Caithness , and finally at Birsay in their own hall on the shore , with Otkel leaning forward asking questions , and Thorkel Fóstri and Killer-Bardi and the rest sitting silent , listening , with the Earl 's sons and his wife . |
| 17 | He bumped into people without realising it , walked into walls and was almost run over by Tock in his protective case . |
| 18 | The point has been made more generally by Eldridge in his historical survey of workers ' resistance ( 1971 , pp.45–64 ) . |
| 19 | As you can see the PostScript language is a little like BASIC in its construction . |
| 20 | But Hawley says : ‘ Jason is more like Hanley in his general play — even though he is much smaller and basically a scrum-half . |
| 21 | He swung round , still with Emma in his arms , and not until he saw Peggy dash up the room and pick the long , steel poker from its rest on the brass open-work fender did he release her . |
| 22 | Fiona and I set off from Fulham in our car at about 9 a.m . |
| 23 | She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her . |
| 24 | This mistake is commonly made , especially in the case of Black Mollies ( remember they do prefer saline conditions ) and commonly also with Blackmoors in which case protozoal parasites or skin flukes are usually the culprits . |
| 25 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 26 | This dilemma was highlighted in the opening quotations , and later by Ross in his comparison of the shortfall between the aims and the assessment objectives for art and music GCSE . |
| 27 | The University and Motorola University of Schaumburg , Illinois , recently signed a collaborative agreement on the development of training materials and methods for use both by Motorola in its electronics companies around the world and the University of Edinburgh in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes . |
| 28 | Deficiencies in this area have been summed up by Maxwell in his review of junior-school reading in Scottish schools . |
| 29 | Scotland 's plight is such that Clyde 's goalkeeper , Scott Howie , will play against the Maltese in the afternoon ( the game has a 1.30pm kick-off ) and then turn out for Clyde in their Second Division match with Queen of the South at Douglas Park at 7.30pm . |
| 30 | JON Bon Jovi flew out of Ulster in his private jet last night after an explosive concert that set Belfast alight . |