Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [det] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frontispiece from a copy of the music from the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg was a beautiful piece of artwork even before it was decorated , so I only arranged some flowers in two of the corners , rather than all the way round , which would have overpowered the original design . |
| 2 | and just fell over and I just saw this thing in the corner of my eye |
| 3 | I ALREADY reviewed this back in July but now that it 's finally been given a British release ‘ Perfect Day ’ will , in time , be seen as a perfect moment from MFS 's classic period , alongside excursions from Cosmic Baby , Microglobe and Mind Gear . |
| 4 | I always had this thing in the back of my mind that I 'd like to be Head Gardener at Killerton one day , because of the type of garden it is , because of its size and because of the plant content . |
| 5 | Journalistically , I now had more status in the little Gazette office . |
| 6 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 7 | I then bought some dittany in the fine , covered , nineteenth-century market . |
| 8 | It was when he attempted to argue , ‘ I would n't be bothered if I never had another ride in the National , ’ that he began to give himself away . |
| 9 | I never saw any signs in her eyes , but then again , maybe I was n't looking . |
| 10 | With me being a football fan , Leeds Utd to be more specific , I never took much interest in tennis . |
| 11 | One man was outside , two were sitting inside , the men were completely black , so black trousers , black hats and they had a black cape over it , over their faces so you could n't see who they were , and one of them just had this gun in his hand , and fired at this Citroen here located . |
| 12 | which effectively determined this case in the courts below and it is the law as so stated which the appellant prosecutor now challenges as an unwarranted judicial gloss upon the statutory language , as opposed to a legitimate construction of it . |
| 13 | Not only that , but post-revolutionary France would have represented atheism at worst , Catholicism at best ; little wonder that a good Baptist lad , fired by an upsurge of patriotism which temporarily united all Englishmen in opposition to a common foe , should have joined the struggle . |
| 14 | Denis Healey soon saw himself in the role of bridge-builder between the West German government ( which particularly feared any decline in the credibility of nuclear deterrence ) and McNamara who hoped to avoid the first — or at least the early — use of nuclear weapons . |
| 15 | Oppressive parents , over-close siblings and a stifling family atmosphere were regarded , for example , as causative factors in schizophrenia , and relatives — rightly — deeply resented a theory which never had any foundation in hard research evidence . |
| 16 | Almost inevitably , questions about Dermot sent her into a rage — and she usually soothed that rage in a bottle . |
| 17 | A new girl asks , ‘ You still got that man in there ? ’ |
| 18 | So the chances were there for United rather than Portsmouth erm but you always had that feeling in the last quarter of an hour , is n't that funny , you 've talked to Ken Vasey and we 've talked to Andy Melville , and I think they both agreed that erm Portsmouth might just come through and snatch three points . |
| 19 | By anybody 's reckoning , she still had another week in which to go through agonies about it . |
| 20 | Then she carefully nicked another hole in her red fishnet stockings and , once on the pavement , readjusted the seams so they were nicely crooked . |
| 21 | She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States . |
| 22 | The policy had widespread appeal , not only to county councils who now had another weapon in their armoury to fight expansionist urban authorities , but also more widely . |
| 23 | Sally-Anne was very conscious that she was wearing only a nightgown and a light shawl , and the fear which she sometimes felt these days in the company of men , and had felt ever since — no , forget that — was threatening to overwhelm her . |
| 24 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 25 | He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ . |
| 26 | Instead she dutifully lifted each weight in turn from the shoulder high into the air , staring steadfastly into her own cow-brown eyes . |
| 27 | She too had few friends in London . |
| 28 | We transiently expressed several cDNAs in mammalian cells , then assayed both cell lysates and conditioned medium in a Schwann cell proliferation assay . |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe we even passed each other in the supermarket . |
| 30 | Erm er it 's basically that there is no stated requirement at present from any of the four nations , for this aircraft to operate on ships er back in the early days of the programme when the the French were involved er we looked at the possibility of designing an aircraft er to provide the whole spectrum of capabilities from air defence er ground attack and also maritime operations off ships and er we we certainly experienced some difficulties in reconciling all those things in one design , which was adequately capable in each of the areas . |