Example sentences of "[indef pn] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 2 | I was terrified when Herman , like someone in her books , turned to me and said : ‘ How delightful it would be if one could hear what she 's saying when she does this . |
| 3 | Those who have seen advance screenings tend to scoff , and suggest this Lolita looks more like someone in her mid-twenties in some scenes . |
| 4 | She was so furious that she drove with exaggerated care back to Kalkara , in case she crashed into someone in her distracted state . |
| 5 | Any normal man would comfort someone in her situation . |
| 6 | One of her examples is taken from a conversation about someone in her office : ‘ And he knows Spanish . |
| 7 | If this kind of thing was allowed to continue , she might well start swaggering into Sunday service and shouting things like ‘ Bugger ! ’ or ‘ Piss off ! ’ if she found someone in her seat . |
| 8 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 9 | ‘ I imagine she caught the bug from someone in her class at school . |
| 10 | There was no doubt that the rewards for someone in her profession were considerable . |
| 11 | One cup of tea and half a custard tart later it dawned on her that she felt a remarkable glow of well-being , for someone in her particular dilemma . |
| 12 | Her employers told her the work was too stressful for someone in her condition . |
| 13 | There were several technical innovations but the spirit of the time made it likely that the man of the moment would be someone in whom technical boldness and artistic pretension would be sustained by the need to preach . |
| 14 | If she were a Lady , she would still be referred to as Mrs. X. If the person were a member of the nobility or someone in whom the press had an interest , rumour would start to circulate , and damage could not be avoided . |
| 15 | From the hundreds of letters I have received from adult survivors the message is quite clear : they wish that someone in their childhood had stopped it . ’ |
| 16 | This is particularly true if we can face doing it before they experience death for themselves , before someone in their family , maybe a grandparent , dies . |
| 17 | She sees the person who successfully survives the hazards of the middle years becoming someone in their own right who is not afraid to take responsibility and to admit to ‘ what I really feel ’ . |
| 18 | The jetty moved lazily , like someone in their sleep . |
| 19 | This booklet is written for secondary school children and young people who want to understand something about AIDS or who know someone with AIDS — possibly a friend at school or someone in their close family . |
| 20 | Children will also be able to get a Save the Earth money box , in which they will be asked to put money each time someone in their family wastes energy , for example by leaving on a light or boiling a full kettle of water for one cup of tea . |
| 21 | For example , if a carer has a sudden illness and has to go into hospital , the Emergency Intervention Service can support someone in their own home or provide alternative accommodation in the community . |
| 22 | For someone in their early thirties , the sexual theme is still dominant ; for someone in their sixties , death is usually a more salient concern ! |
| 23 | For someone in their early thirties , the sexual theme is still dominant ; for someone in their sixties , death is usually a more salient concern ! |
| 24 | Evandrou ( 1990 ) showed that , nationally , the equivalent income of carers ( taking account of family size ) was somewhat lower than for non-carers , but the real drop in income was experienced by those caring for someone in their own household . |
| 25 | Around 4.5 million people have a problem with their own drinking or someone in their family . |
| 26 | If we acted every time a referee upset someone in their own country , we would n't have any left . |
| 27 | And if , if he says to us in meeting that he 's got no small talk and no erm ability for visiting in a hospital situation where you can ask people how they are , and then can move to the next person you 've got to see I 'm not sure how he would be visiting someone in their home . |
| 28 | Godfrey Carey , for the prosecution , told the jury that the young woman had ‘ only taken a lift from someone in whose hands you could not really expect to be more safe — an officer in uniform ’ . |
| 29 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 30 | But there 's also a radio in the police cars that you can talk all the way over in Chelmsford which is twenty two , twenty three miles away , so you can t talk to someone in what the Essex Police call their information room , that 's another piece of equipment . |