Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun] [subord] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly the leg shape is tricky to achieve , and to have shaped a pair of legs in mahogany before I touched the ebony was good practice . |
| 2 | My hand groped for the light in terror as I wondered what this object could be . |
| 3 | Fortunately I had heavy duty minders in the form of my sister , Karen , mum and aunt , who were able to keep the kids in line while I translated the menu and discovered it came down to largely burgers , chicken , steaks and ‘ flipper friendly ’ fish . |
| 4 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 5 | I feel I could score more goals in Italy if I was given more freedom . |
| 6 | You tape it me and give me the tape and I 'll give you a tape in exchange because I wan na keep it . |
| 7 | God , how I used to envy the Catholic girls going to the schools in Belfast when I was waiting at the bus stop like a fresh dog 's dinner to be carried off to Dothegirls Academy in me big grey interlocks with double gusset for the hockey stains . |
| 8 | Craig was able to say his thanks in church while I was languishing in bed with tonsillitis . |
| 9 | Although I say that this story could really happen , I doubt that there would be the character of Simon in reality as I think that a boy his age would realise the dangerous situation he was in , and join the other boys . |
| 10 | For I knew there were English-speaking visitors in Geneva if I could only establish communication with them ; they might be induced to take up my cause . |
| 11 | You all so easily forget these names now , oh I do n't remember it , but the other , oh I remember old , eh mate of , he was second in command when I was in India , and he , he , he was a right character , he was a right chara |
| 12 | I was once speaking to some 2,000 people in the Tent Hall in Glasgow when I noticed my audience 's attention drifting — something I 'm not used to ! |
| 13 | I am not normally a follower of the daily horoscopes in magazines as I could not see how one small horoscope could possibly influence so many millions of people born under a particular starsign . |
| 14 | I have to have a home in London because I live and work here . |
| 15 | Have nasty moment in bathroom before I realise that recycled bog paper is full of eccentric imperfections . |
| 16 | Firstly , violence of any nature has no place in rugby as I am sure the majority of players and spectators will agree . |
| 17 | I 've lost my right back place in USA 'cos I 'm in England ‘ til January … |
| 18 | To each his fun in his own way , of course , but I much prefer to use my ferrets to the full , clearing each burrow in turn as I come to it . |
| 19 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 20 | I listened but if it 's of no evidential value there is no point in listening because I 've got so much on my mind at that time erm to sort out that threat in there that I certainly ca n't recall what was exactly said or even along the lines of what was said . |
| 21 | Ronnie 's news , I found , had given me a good deal more confidence in Fringe than I had had on Drifter , illogical though it might be . |
| 22 | I called her baby the Dust Baby and bought him clothes from a shop in Nassau before I left . |
| 23 | I looked at one , well in fact two classes in each year group in detail because I really wanted to focus very closely on how the pupils experienced the school in the different modes of grouping . |
| 24 | ‘ I was a policeman for twelve years in Jordan before I joined the Black June . |
| 25 | ‘ Even Husak has spent many more years in jail than I have , ’ he said . |
| 26 | We had a big management shakeup in BHS when I could see that certain people were just not going to change their spots . |
| 27 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 28 | This summer , I visited the Art Materials Exhibition and , to my surprise , I learnt more from watching paintings in action than I could ever have learnt from the so-called Teach Yourself books . |
| 29 | I bow my head in shame when I think of the countries we 've looted and the people we 've subjugated . |
| 30 | And he added : ‘ I 'm just going to take the ball off them at the back in Italy as I did in England . |