Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the religious communities themselves , they had long since sought the protection of local potentes to speak for them as advocates in legal disputes or to put in a word with the king . |
| 2 | It bounced and rolled between them and lay in the shadow of the chair . |
| 3 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 4 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 5 | Sadly he deteriorated very quickly until he could no longer care for himself or communicate in any understandable way . |
| 6 | He turned his head slightly towards me and spoke in the direction of my tie . |
| 7 | Now what 's funny about this place is they 're all Italians that are in there but there 's loads of them that live in this particular area , that lived in Bedford for a long time . |
| 8 | He noticed that he was almost out of them and fumbled in his jacket pocket for some change to feed into the cigarette machine . |
| 9 | The archaeologist ran in front of them and stood in the middle of the road . |
| 10 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 11 | NEW UK OLYMPIC COMPANY RISES FROM THE ASHES OF ONE THAT CRASHED IN JANUARY |
| 12 | Much useful research can originate from the idea that just turns up , the hunch or the observation of something that happens in the street which triggers off a line of thought . |
| 13 | He put his hand in his jacket pocket , searching for his wallet , and as he did , Doug , serious now , yanked Harry towards him and whispered in tones from which all traces of his cockney accent were now absent . |
| 14 | I can not bear to think of her as laid in the dark grave . ’ |
| 15 | And even after Dana had left , there was something of him that remained in Bath , as we were to find out . |
| 16 | The dog slunk past him and settled in front of the electric fire and growled back at him . |
| 17 | Erm I was n't , I did n't know what you were trying to get at when you were bringing up the miles per annum that he was doing , I can understand the flying side of it but driving in the car , yes you need to know that he 's doing a lot of miles and that there 's , you know , the there 's the potential danger and everything there but I did n't understand why you need his specific miles per annum . |
| 18 | If so , any school or group of schools in consultation with the College and the leader of the in-service team may decide to depart from a particular syllabus or portions of it and develop in its place new material which after being tried out and improved upon may be passed on to other schools and colleges for use on a wider scale with the approval of the Ministry . |
| 19 | To help decide on the relevance of a piece of information you can ask questions of it as suggested in Question Analysis . |
| 20 | Like their wives , they want to express more of themselves and get in touch with the caring and home-making aspects of their personalities . |
| 21 | I do n't know , it was just a novelty , we 'd never ever , I remember an , an aunt of ours that lived in Plymouth near us , she had a house with an upstairs , but she had a downstairs toilet , so we never got to go upstairs you know it 's just one of those stupid things I suppose , I , I thought it was great and another attraction was I think one of the main reasons you got us to really want to come to Harlow was the fact that we 'd have a television |
| 22 | As I took in the traffic thundering by beneath me and relived in my mind my alarming experience , my trepidation returned . |
| 23 | The geological availability of these is used by geographers and historians as a strong argument for why settlements are sited near them when engaged in mining them , or when a particular industry which uses them as a raw material has to be nearby . |
| 24 | However , women will have to be more alert in future in view of the growing violence against them and increase in sexual attacks . |
| 25 | I 've played against him and Wasim in county cricket and , believe me , if they had been cheating I would have known . |
| 26 | Carefully grasping a fat little bunch of violets , Nicandra left the heavy dusk of the fig trees behind her and walked in sunlight along the length of the flower borders . |
| 27 | Tavalouze sidled up behind him and said in a low voice , ‘ Remove your hood , the veil . |
| 28 | Three thousand miles away in North Hollywood , in November , the man closes the door behind him and stands in the foyer taking off his hat . |
| 29 | She was thinking how delicious the hand at her waist felt and how she longed to let her body sink against it and luxuriate in its gentle , virile strength . |
| 30 | The star of the Professionals went on : ‘ Why you want to write about something that happened in 1977 I do n't know . |