Example sentences of "[noun] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered what they were saying about her , up at the top of the house , as she undressed and laid her clothes out before sliding under the duvet in her underwear . |
| 2 | I said we 've got a duvet in my wardrobe . |
| 3 | My duvet in your wardrobe . |
| 4 | Dr Macdonald clearly identifies the link between oedema , weeping and the flow of urine from the bladder in which the body frees itself from the water retained in the tissues causing the swelling which brings the patient to the doctor . |
| 5 | It also provides some examples of breaches and discusses the possible manners in which such breaches should be addressed and in some cases reported . |
| 6 | She certainly believed in equality between the sexes , especially in the work place , but felt there was always room for courtesy and manners in what was becoming an increasingly uncaring society . |
| 7 | The behaviour of Violet Needham 's young characters and the patterns and manners in her books make them period pieces nowadays ; her prim , earnest , winning girls and ardent , courteous boys are as alien to our times as Marco Lorestan is . |
| 8 | I have never seen such manners in my life before ! ’ |
| 9 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 10 | They hereby resolve to use every mean in their power to Detect the Deserters now presented upon a list … " |
| 11 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 12 | Roots had split the ground in places , and the thickest of these jarred the Toyota so hard that Diane had an uneasy vision of the entire truck falling apart as every spot-weld gave at once , leaving her sitting in the driver 's seat with the steering wheel in her hands and nothing but open air all around . |
| 13 | She seemed to have nothing on underneath , which made the wheel in my stomach behave in an entirely crazy fashion . |
| 14 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 15 | Now he held the wheel in his long-fingered brown hands , tossed a tambourine in my lap and marked a beat : ‘ Wahida , wahida , wahida ’ — ‘ One , one , one . ’ |
| 16 | I knew he was a wheel in his own town , though I did n't know then the town was Waldron City . |
| 17 | He held the driving wheel in his hands and said , ’ Brrrr , I 'm driving my car , Brrr — ’ |
| 18 | With the stimulus of a wheel in his hands Patrick did not feel sleepy . |
| 19 | No , he 's pretty much of a jerk in his personal dealings ’ . |
| 20 | In England , for example , a brewer is disqualified from acting as a licensing justice only in the county or borough in which he is a brewer . |
| 21 | Perhaps we should consider publishing details of the many failures in Conservative councils throughout the country , and not least in the borough in which this House is situated which , while exporting its homeless to other authorities , appears to be guilty of the illegal sale of houses that were not its to sell in the first place . |
| 22 | The part of the Leicester relief road known as the SDDR — the southern district distributor road — is already discharging traffic on to the A6 at Oadby , a borough in my constituency , to the south of the city . |
| 23 | Why did the designer of the west pediment choose for subject the Thessalian Centauromachy in its new Athenian guise ? |
| 24 | The progression to cirrhosis in our patient occurred despite the lack of significant inflammation . |
| 25 | Now it 's come down to it , they 're all assholes in our family , to put it politely . |
| 26 | POLICE are stepping up patrols on Wrexham industrial estate after a spate of factory break-ins in which office equipment and other property was stolen . |
| 27 | Little wonder that the savage Saxons regarded Christianity as a Frankish method of suppression and control rather than a true religion in its own right . |
| 28 | Here the argument is rather different ; Durkheim argues that , if it is desired to penetrate and isolate the quintessential features of religion , then the best way of proceeding is to examine religion in its most primitive ( earliest ) , purest , and most elemental form . |
| 29 | When , for example , I was interviewing Moonies , I would ask them to describe their childhood and see whether religion was mentioned , then ask about the place of religion in their lives and see what kind of response I received before posing more specific questions about church going , belief in God , confirmation , the religious beliefs and practices of their parents — and so on . |
| 30 | Setting up so many colonies to give people a chance to practise religion in their own way had helped produce a great diversity among the English colonies . |