Example sentences of "in a [noun] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flared up in a fury and we parted for life again … |
| 2 | Tom then hit his tee-shot in a fury and he struck it further than I go on holidays . |
| 3 | I myself am guilty , he wrote , in that I want the glass to be seen , I want it placed in a morgue and I want people to come in and see it , pay money and come in and see it , if needs be . |
| 4 | unless we were just kind of indulge in a conversation and we did n't see it |
| 5 | And I had a se , you know , I mean you you were aware that you were in a coach and you 'd you 'd wake up occasionally and realise you we , but by enlarge I had eight hours sleep ! |
| 6 | Later that evening , they were in a pub and my friend placed a pound coin in another condom machine . |
| 7 | if you go in a freezer and it shrivels so then if you go in the fridge |
| 8 | ‘ I was in a competition and my daughter — who was three at the time — was watching . |
| 9 | This being a movie , Sandra is recognised , by a young American woman who won her place in the workshop in a competition and who now , shyly , politely , asks if she can trouble her for an autograph . |
| 10 | The expert clause is a clause in a contract and it will therefore be subject to the same rules of interpretation as a contract . |
| 11 | ‘ I moved out to stay in a hotel and I think Tracie preferred it that way . |
| 12 | Recently she broke a leg in a fall and it was still in plaster . |
| 13 | And they take them five in a nest and they were all er males , of course . |
| 14 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 15 | His long hair was tied back in a scarf and he was playing guitar to a whistling song . |
| 16 | There were days when the world was shrouded in a mist and I would feign headaches and period pains to get me out of awkward situations such as reading in class . |
| 17 | He just comes round once in a while and they go out . |
| 18 | I would see them in Sweetmary every once in a while and they would most always be drunk . |
| 19 | Graham Pidgeon who 's horse has won a race says you only have w inner once in a while and its worth waiting for |
| 20 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 21 | Mandy was telling us , you know , about one of her friends she erm her husband was very high up in a company and he went to work one day and they called him in the office and says right , you ai n't got a job ! |
| 22 | In A Heritage and its History ( 1959 , Julia , the mistress of the house , acknowledges its traditional sanctities : ‘ It is the one house I know where the present has not ousted the past . |
| 23 | Buy it in a bottle and you could be paying more than fifty times that . |
| 24 | The flight passed in a flash and we were soon in Stornoway where Ewen Munro 's organising skills took over . |
| 25 | His reaction was to allow a harsh laugh to escape him , until she struck him hard on the jaw ; then his laughter changed in a flash and he grabbed hold of first one fist , then two , holding them easily in one hand while be brought up his free hand and cupped her chin in it . |
| 26 | The cachous vanished in a flash and there were sullen looks and mutterings as the last children went back to their places , though one or two , even if they had n't won a sweet , felt strangely pleased that they had done something good , though not all were quite sure what it was . |
| 27 | I make an observation about a recurring item in a newspaper and you interpret it as jealousy . ’ |
| 28 | The police , in early schemes of proactive community work , also took an interest in a locality and its population at all ages . |
| 29 | Long years later , he ended up in a workhouse and it was from that vantage point that he ‘ launched his attack upon the world of letters . ’ |
| 30 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |