Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 32 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 33 | Consequently , as Aristotle puts it in his account , ‘ the slower will always have a lead ’ , in contradiction with experience , that is , the world of appearance . |
| 34 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 35 | When Woolley instructed them in shooting the enemy in the back he was not being melodramatic , he really meant it , because Woolley was a professional . |
| 36 | Given the analysis as Freud presents it in Group Psychology , however , there is no reason why this should occur between members of different sects of the same world religion . |
| 37 | This theory holds that , although human society originated as Freud described it in Totem and Taboo , subsequent social evolution led to repetitions and expansion of that primal trauma which , although on a smaller scale than the original one , nevertheless share something of its traumatic nature and crucial consequences — particularly for the subsequent evolution of the superego . |
| 38 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 39 | The time may not , therefore , be too far away when , as McKinsey put it in their 1989 report , the scenario of ‘ potential unlocked ’ becomes a reality for AEA . |
| 40 | He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub . |
| 41 | As Alan sat him in his cot and left the room , Christopher began to howl in earnest again , interrupted by spasms of coughing which left him breathless . |
| 42 | He was so involved in these thoughts that when the school finally loomed into view he failed to notice it and only when Tock poked him in the side did he look up and see the gigantic sight . |
| 43 | Cambridge was empty when Coleridge reached it in October . |
| 44 | Bristol , like much of England , was in political turmoil when Coleridge reached it in November . |
| 45 | When Pennant visited it in 1772 there were three farmers living in it with their stock and crops and at times in the summer months as many as twelve families were known to stay in it at once and it was the headquarters of those employed in the manufacture ( if kelp . |
| 46 | As Wilson puts it in her discussion of Asian women living in Britain , these relationships serve to ‘ cushion a woman against the harshness of her life ’ ( Wilson , 1978 , p. 7 ) . |
| 47 | The rest of her sentence died on her lips as Penry took her in his arms with a sound somewhere between a sigh and a groan as their lips met and their bodies flowed together in a deep , primeval need which united them almost at once in a storm of love and need as fierce as the one which raged , unheard , outside . |
| 48 | They were finally rewarded when Wadforth fired them in front from a short corner but they momentarily relaxed and Pelicans replied almost immediately with a well-worked move from a long corner which caught out the defence . |
| 49 | The music is lost , but Cavalieri 's contemporaries agree that it was he who , as Peri put it in the preface to his Euridice ( 1600 ) , ‘ before anyone else made our music ’ ( i.e. the ‘ nuova maniera di canto ’ ) ‘ heard on the stage ’ . |
| 50 | And of course we 're pleased as Punch to put him in print again . |
| 51 | When catastrophe hit her in the shape of the Town & County Bank stopping payment , she was ruined . |
| 52 | Collinson 's first garden at Peckham was a modest one , but from there he took nosegays and potted flowers to grace his City window , and when Kalm visited him in 1748 he remarked on the many rare American plants already established there . |
| 53 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 54 | It was clear that the actress was intent on enjoying this part of the play to the full , Shae thought wryly , resolutely quashing the niggling little stab of jealousy as Dane took her in his arms . |
| 55 | If the convention as anti-parliament is understood as assuming that the people 's wishes must prevail , that the convention better expressed those wishes than parliament and therefore in any contest between the two popular loyalty should be to the convention , as abolitionists employed it in the 1830s , it was closer to a focus for intensifying ‘ pressure from without ’ than an alternative to parliament . |
| 56 | As Leonard expressed it in the poem which — in title and texture counterbalances the title of the book : |
| 57 | Ever Ready , a battery maker , was losing market share to Duracell and made pre-tax profits of only £4.2m when Hanson bought it in 1981 . |
| 58 | ‘ No , I am not going to be sick again , ’ she added fiercely as Elise eyed her in alarm . |
| 59 | When Melinda answered him in fluent Arabic , they all looked at her as if they had seen a ghost , bade us goodnight , and melted away into the darkness again . |
| 60 | But you ca n't argue with the propulsion of ‘ No Hard Shoulder To Cry On ’ , the inventiveness of ‘ Slow Rider ’ and the odyssey inscribed in ‘ Safe Surfer ’ ( though you do worry when Cope loses it in the mid-section ) . |