Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything that I learned during my childhood in my village has remained sharply in my mind . |
| 2 | During my stay in her country we were always together , and she saved me from many dangerous situations . |
| 3 | For its good government , I committed it to Wenilo , who was at that time serving me as my clerk in my chapel " . |
| 4 | It was my practice to arrive a day or two before the opening of a National Course in order to prepare the setting for my part in it ; and Basil usually found me in occupation of his normal workroom , setting up displays . |
| 5 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 6 | Other winners were : Elsie Looker , 79 , of Southsea , Hants , who won the Tunstall Telecom Caring Award for looking after her sister in her home after she developed Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 7 | She was looking after her father in his old age as she had always said she would , but instead of satisfaction she felt only guilt — guilt at her own impatience when he behaved not as her father but like a disobedient child . |
| 8 | Childminders — who look after your child in their home — must be registered with the local authority and they and their families are regularly checked by the police , according to the 1989 Children 's Act . |
| 9 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 10 | Salim reads about their doings in his magazines of popular science , and letting Ferdinand into the secret of his interest , he feels he is revealing his ‘ true self ’ . |
| 11 | The couple do get serious when they talk about their work in their environmental consultancy , speaking to companies and giving lectures about caring for the planet . |
| 12 | Lawyers are also more familiar with the Commissioner and are more frequently pointing clients with complaints about their unions in her direction . |
| 13 | Sula was by birth a Manghutt princess , and she had lived under sentence of banishment until her son 's accession to the Dragon Throne for her part in her family 's attempt to install him as Kha-Khan while his grandfather Arjun yet ruled . |
| 14 | Hilda Amiel , alleged to be the very godmother of fake art , has been arraigned for her part in what the US Attorney calls the ‘ single largest worldwide source and distribution network of bogus prints ’ . |
| 15 | A wash basin neatly boxed in , a big fitted wardrobe with even a rail for her shoes in it . |
| 16 | After the Anglo-French reconciliation of 1303 , Edward wrote to Marie of France thanking her for her letters in which she expressed her desire for a meeting and conversation between him and her stepson , Philip the Fair . |
| 17 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 18 | A spokesman at the Los Angeles hospital said the 63 year old actress — famous for her roles in My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's had a ‘ low-grade malignancy ’ and that doctors were confident they had removed the entire tumour . |
| 19 | A BRAVE sister died yesterday as she searched desperately for her brother in their blazing home . |
| 20 | MADONNA is being tipped as an Oscar nominee for her role in her new film Body Of Evidence , which will be released in Britain next March . |
| 21 | In earlier times , the family had often held the key to power and women had more opportunity to influence affairs : thus , in feudal times , the Lady of the Manor supervised a large household , exercised great practical authority over both men and women , and stood in for her husband in his frequent absences from home . |
| 22 | Her work has been very much as ‘ back-room ’ for her husband in his political career , and jointly with him in their shared interests — two books on the church architecture of London and one on Northern Lazio in Italy . |
| 23 | Forced a cool smile , as she climbed out of the car , searched for her key in her bag . |
| 24 | The commonest ( although still rare ) type of statement is that if it appears that a Bill has passed both Houses and received the Royal Assent , no court of justice can inquire into the mode in which it was introduced into Parliament , nor into what was done previous to its introduction , nor what passed in Parliament during its progress in its various stages through Parliament ( see , e.g. , Lee v Bude & Torrington Junction Railway Co ( 1871 ) LR 6 CP 577 ; Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway Co v Wauchope ( 1842 ) 8 C1 & F 710 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ as if I 've got such important things to do tomorrow morning , ’ Jo grumbled through her giggles in her own voice . |
| 26 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 27 | The ballet had some rough edges to its structure and the groupings , like the emotions , were sometimes a little too obviously contrived , but it marked a step forward for its choreographer in its attempt to achieve dramatic seriousness and depth . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , though deplorably , British and also many American readers continued to ignore Eliot 's French affinities , following instead the hints that Eliot had dropped for their benefit in his criticism , implying his kinship with such solidly English writers as Donne and Webster . |
| 29 | Frank is — not — in the first national team at the moment ; Norway 's coach Egil ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen has no place for people who are not in the first-11 for their teams in his 16-man squad . |
| 30 | At weekends she 's out with her husband or preparing something for their friends in her new kitchen with its microwave , food processor and dishwasher to take the strain . |