Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’ |
| 2 | Kate has taught me a lot about motherhood — mostly because she approaches it in a completely different way to me . |
| 3 | So she approaches it in a better frame of mind . |
| 4 | she keeps it er , she stashes it in a hiding place in our room |
| 5 | But Rebecca does n't have that aptitude ; she gets herself in a state about any new technology . |
| 6 | She puts it in a cat basket . |
| 7 | She carries her in a sling on her back . |
| 8 | With grit and determination she makes it in a man 's world by hiring and firing at will . |
| 9 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 10 | He might not volunteer information , but is he is asked , he supplies it in a flawlessly polite manner . |
| 11 | This he will normally be planning to do , but it involves him in a more considerable recasting of his planned activities than the university teacher , and brings him into contact with many more parts of the school life . |
| 12 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 13 | And , as he describes it in a very striking page , suddenly had what he calls a , a very acute sense of unendurable individual loneliness of man , the acute , an acute sense of the pathos of the situation of the human individual , somehow inherently lonely , shut up within himself , undefended , against the blows of fate . |
| 14 | It establishes him in a special relationship with God . |
| 15 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 16 | He envisages it in a kind of ecstasy — a world made by man , to man 's scale , for man to live in . |
| 17 | Looking at Philip Swallow now , as he seats himself in a low , upholstered chair facing her , Robyn has difficulty in recognizing the jet-set philanderer of Rupert Sutcliffe 's description . |
| 18 | ‘ He reveals Himself in a receptor-orientated fashion ’ ( Kraft 1979:169 ) . |
| 19 | The document says it is impossible not to notice how society , for the most part , makes human sexuality banal , since it interprets it in a reduced and impoverished way , ‘ connecting it only with the body and egoistic pleasure ’ . |
| 20 | Unless he 's got a monthly account and he keeps it in a book ! |
| 21 | He keeps us in a prison camp |
| 22 | Every gesture , each movement has something planned , even the way he arranges himself in a chair , his hands behind his head , catching glimpses of himself in the polished surfaces , squinting at his reflection , all with an inquisitive vanity . |
| 23 | A rhetorical figure does not disrupt a conventional meaning randomly ; it shifts it in a particular direction . |
| 24 | It finds her in a maximum security prison on a far-off planet . |
| 25 | This is much less often commented upon , probably because he mentions it in a rather throwaway fashion , losing it in a section almost entirely devoted to the argument that noblemen should receive the same punishments as people of the lower orders . |
| 26 | As soon as a character moves through the arch from area 60 , he finds himself in a meadow of what looks like thick , lush , flesh-coloured grass . |
| 27 | ‘ True , it may not necessarily reform the offender but at least it punishes him in a way which society would regard as just . |
| 28 | It puts me in a fever . |
| 29 | If I can read it , it puts me in a far better mood . |
| 30 | A Pentagon official said : ‘ It puts us in a position between Iran and Iraq where we do n't want to be . |