Example sentences of "[adv] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at her questioningly and Hari leaned forward eagerly in her chair . |
| 2 | On the walls , the cresset torches , untended , spluttered fiercely in their sconces and Corbett realised that the retainers were taking full advantage of a dead king and his lonely , isolated widow . |
| 3 | The long hall was caparisoned with cloths of Paris , costly arras , and ablaze with torches burning fiercely in their countless sconces along the walls . |
| 4 | A pair of keen black eyes burned fiercely in their sunken sockets , and as she met their sardonic gaze she drew back and would have fled , had not the servant been close behind her . |
| 5 | She dropped her lifted velvet skirts ( she had been warming her bottom in front of the fire burning fiercely in its basket grate ) as the girls appeared . |
| 6 | Anthea gripped the mangled sheet fiercely in her long , strong fingers . |
| 7 | The letters F A R C E began to take shape inexorably in my mind . |
| 8 | Native speakers of English all think they know , but almost any two will differ somewhat in their usage and idiom . |
| 9 | Yes , there is somewhat in me still virgin , but not my body , and not at any man 's beck and call like my body . |
| 10 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 11 | In fact , Bolinger seems to weaken this latter claim somewhat in his discussion of what he calls a " nominalised " predicative position , as in it was a plump one . |
| 12 | But the judge , wrongly in our judgment , seized the reins , and made unnecessary reference to the possibility of the protection of professional privilege . |
| 13 | Now when you find a lot of political infighting between the Officials and the DUP , a lot of people , wrongly in my opinion , suspect that the Free Church is just the religious arm of the DUP . |
| 14 | Berwick was attacked by the Scots in 1312 , and regained in 1318 ; besieged by Edward II in 1319 ; taken by the English in 1333 ; burned by James Douglas in 1405 ; ceded to Scotland in 1461 and returned to England in 1482 — where it remains , wrongly in my opinion , to this day . |
| 15 | They stopped rollicking for a couple of seconds and looked impertinently in their direction . |
| 16 | I love you I love you while the lead guitar giggles and the drummer 's tongue lies wetly in his opened mouth . |
| 17 | Said one gentleman , ‘ I have felt a lot better in myself . |
| 18 | " Apart from being stably slimmer in that I have managed to maintain the weight loss this time , I feel a great deal better in myself . |
| 19 | The Nationalists fared better in their foreign dealings . |
| 20 | Conservatives believe that people should be left with as much as possible of their own money to spend in their own interests , in the clear belief that they will spend it better in their interests than any Government will do for them . |
| 21 | If I can have a game of polo I feel five hundred times better in my mental outlook . |
| 22 | ’ If I have a game of polo I feel five hundred times better in my mental outlook . ’ |
| 23 | She 's made me more responsible and I 've done better in my exams and I 've worked at my English . |
| 24 | Why , Mrs. Jewkes , you tell me she remains very sullen still and eats nothing , yet I think I never saw her look better in my life . |
| 25 | gave me a C yeah and said improved greatly from the last showed much better in his work and really trying hard and gave me a C. |
| 26 | As she placed her hands trustingly in his , he moved out of the strong light and she saw his face . |
| 27 | A mindless litany repeated itself endlessly in her mind : ‘ Find Jeopardy , find Jeopardy . ’ |
| 28 | He sat forward tensely in his seat , as if he found it difficult to see the road , and frequently wiped at the windscreen with his handkerchief . |
| 29 | And when the old lady finally died suddenly in her eighties , she felt utterly bereft . |
| 30 | He seemed to be talking to himself , and as he drew level he glanced suddenly in her direction . |