Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb pp] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know friends think I 'm a bit outdated in my thinking but I do n't understand women who just live with men . |
| 2 | I know we all get a bit stuck in our ways once we 're over thirty , but for Heaven 's sake , is n't it worth a try ? |
| 3 | Of course — if you will forgive me for saying so — it is a bit stilted in its present form . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's just a bit set in his ways . ’ |
| 5 | There is a drip stuck in his arm . |
| 6 | I had cavalierly presupposed that theme parks make people happy , that whereas for most of us there 's generally a vague resistance to be overcome when we are confronted by the more cerebral seductions of art and literature — a resistance rooted in their potential obscurities and our cultural insecurities — a ‘ ride ’ in the Disneyworld sense caters to an immediate , instinctive and near-universal appetite for simple , sensual gratification and can therefore dispense with too much analysis . |
| 7 | A sentence formed in my head . |
| 8 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 9 | The EC is blocking pork and beef imports because it claims that American slaughterhouses are unsanitary ; the Americans are blocking some wine imports because they have not tested a drug used in its production . |
| 10 | What I 'm saying to you is , erm I do n't expect for one minute to have a computer installed in my office , ccessdon'tw alter it to that a particular way , and |
| 11 | There is a story told in his otherwise unrevealing autobiography which nicely illuminates the practical side of this pursuit of goodness . |
| 12 | At a banquet held in his honour in the Chinese capital Beijing , his host , Lu Ping , Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of China 's State Council , referred to Wilson as " our old friend " who , over the years , had made unremitting efforts to promote mutual trust and co-operation between the UK and China on the Hong Kong issue , on the basis of the Sino-British Joint Declaration , and had made useful contributions to the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong . |
| 13 | As an example of corruption , I cited the case of a châtelaine in my part of the world who had applied for , and received , a number of supplementary petrol coupons ( which were by no means easy to obtain ) for attending a committee-meeting held in her own drawing-room . |
| 14 | The ‘ enlightened classes ’ failed to appear and respond to a creed forged in their supposed interests : the propaganda of luces could no more create in Spain a bourgeoisie in the French image than the propaganda of free trade , half a century later , could create an English middle class . |
| 15 | But as she gazed from the French windows on the tangle of weeds outside , and the now dense greenery of Switham Thicket , a plea formed in her mind as she thought of Lady Merchiston upstairs , in conference with her man of business . |
| 16 | The spots of colour in his cheeks were much brighter than before , and he had a napkin crumpled in his hand ; all that coughing had clearly started his nose bleeding . |
| 17 | The funeral 's taken place of a pensioner killed in his own home . |
| 18 | ( Just watch two pigeons on a roof engaged in their act of courtship . ) |
| 19 | A murmur lifted in her throat like the sound of the wind blowing . |
| 20 | So how does the girl who began hitting on a Swingball set in her back garden , see this move ? |
| 21 | Thus it was possible for a Frenchman to hide from a crime committed in his own country by adopting another nationality . |
| 22 | More tersely , a lawyer noted in his diary in 1795 : " Superstition is gone , and refinements there on have made the people very irreligious . " |
| 23 | A key hidden in your mouth or under your scrotum , a button to press , a collapsible blade … |
| 24 | They embrace , then separate , and one goes over to a woman in the crowd with a child cradled in her arms . |
| 25 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 26 | ( During a lunch given in his honour by the British in the island , the wife of one of the wine-shippers bit her tongue rather painfully and asked Lloyd George if he ever did that . |
| 27 | Her appointment was announced yesterday at a lunch held in her honour at the university . |
| 28 | He had a spear stuck in his face ) . |
| 29 | FOSTER father Norman Roberts took a horse whip and bamboo stick to a boy placed in his care by a council 's social services department , it was alleged today . |
| 30 | In an adjoining field a sower , a basket cradled in his hands , scattered the life-bearing seeds , whilst behind him two young boys danced and cavorted , swinging their slings to drive off the marauding crows and ravens . |