Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [noun prp] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being another only child , and as my father 's job had kept my parents in Singapore for the last two years , I now spent most of my holidays with my aunt and cousin , timing them to come in Dickie 's school holidays . |
| 2 | Hoomey thought Nails would make for home , the mission accomplished , but he seemed disposed to come in Hoomey 's direction . |
| 3 | Martha set confidently to work in Grace 's galley , which consisted of two gas rings in the bows connected to a Calor cylinder , and a brass sink . |
| 4 | But functional differentiation of genres seems to disappear in Adorno 's picture ; all art apparently must aspire to the condition of the most ‘ autonomous ’ . |
| 5 | They made plans to meet in Harry 's room sometimes dating the Christmas Vacation which Edward devoted to intense preparations for an entrance scholarship to Merton and continuous work at Latin and Mathematics for Responsions . |
| 6 | The two old adversaries are seeded to meet in Tuesday 's final . |
| 7 | She would simply have to trust in Lorimer 's dread of his mother . |
| 8 | First Joshua and Caleb , two of those sent as spies into Canaan , try to persuade the people to trust in God 's protection and to have no fear . |
| 9 | The Poles were well aware that they were a kitten between two cats , but they preferred to persist in Piłsudski 's strategy of keeping both Germans and Russians at arm 's length while trusting to Western capital and military alliances . |
| 10 | All the elements which were to appear in Watkins ' ley thesis , and others , were present in these earlier and contemporary researches : remains of old , straight tracks , churches on older pagan sites , beacons , meridional lines and astronomical orientation . |
| 11 | I often told him — and so did Tate — that he did himself less than justice by being content to stand in Tate 's shadow . |
| 12 | Pope has commented that it is hard not to detect in Ælfric 's statement in Wyrdwriteras that we sceolon secan æt Gode sylfum urne ræd mid anrædum mode ( we should seek our counsel from God himself with unanimous spirit ) " an allusion to the unræd so unhappily associated with Ethelred " . |
| 13 | Now the first one is about to open in Vienna 's Mariahilferstrasse , an important shopping area , making the smaller dealers the more cherishable . |
| 14 | The all-women crew on the British 58-footer , Maiden , skippered by Tracy Edwards , has now slipped to 70 miles behind Rucanor , but is expected to lead in Friday 's trio followed by the second cruiser , With Integrity , the old GBII , and the West German yacht , Schlussel von Bremen . |
| 15 | He would rise early , make himself tea on his landlady 's stove , work for three hours with a pause for breakfast , then go out to walk in Regent 's Park , unless it was raining . |
| 16 | The terrain seemed much harder to cross in Golding 's island . |
| 17 | Gilbert turned to stare in Cardiff 's direction as if contemplating another mad dash for the reception doors and then remembered the thing that lay beyond them . |
| 18 | The kitschy Sixties strip routines are , er , amusing — but was n't this kind of thing supposed to belong in Fenn 's pre-Lynch past ? |
| 19 | We 'll have to look in John 's thing , yeah ? |
| 20 | And so there is reason to look in Hardy 's poetry not just for allusions to Virgil 's Latin but for echoes of Dryden 's English . |
| 21 | I presume you will take on this responsibility , Trumper ? ’ he added , still not bothering to look in Charlie 's direction . |
| 22 | The play itself was panned by critics , but they found much to praise in Crawford 's performance . |
| 23 | Not that that seemed to apply in Carolan 's case — his background was rich landowning , fox-hunting squires , dull , perhaps , and rigidly class-conscious , but , at any rate in recent generations , apparently quite decent sorts — Colonel Blimps rather than slick financiers or face-grinding industrialists . |
| 24 | I shall also briefly refer to the reformed roles that ideology/ knowledge have to play in Habermas 's account of advanced capitalism . |
| 25 | Oxford United 's new er 150,000 pound signing from Doncaster Rovers , Les Robinson , will be eligible to play in Wednesday 's home fixture against Leicester City , providing the proposed fee is received by the Football League by Wednesday morning . |
| 26 | Although his letter does not deny that Chlothild had a part to play in Clovis 's conversion , nor that the king decided to accept baptism during a battle against the Alamans , in some respects the information it contains is at odds with Gregory 's account and , therefore , with the traditional interpretation of events . |
| 27 | The strange child has chosen to sleep in Edward 's room tonight ; but I am sure she will want to see you and perhaps you can give Miss Fitch a hand . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Most of Zagreb 's Serbs probably came out to vote in Croatia 's referendum because they were scared , ’ said a Serb historian . |
| 29 | Of course , the line between art and life is a particularly hard one to draw in Kahlo 's case . |
| 30 | No one could quite understand what Karpov was trying to do in Saturday 's game against Artur Yusupov . |