Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] in [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought .
2 To his surprise he discovered that it produced in him the symptoms and signs of the illness which it was used to treat , namely malaria , which in those days was known as intermittent fever .
3 Sir : I am sorry that John Torode ( 3 October ) found the Salman Rushdie seminar ‘ dispiriting ’ , and even more sorry that he perceives in it the birth of a ‘ dangerously illiberal orthodoxy ’ .
4 " You 've learned a great deal from Sister Anne and I see in you the quality which is needed at Yelton .
5 We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible , absolutely impossible , to explain in any classical way , and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics .
6 Sarah was a beautiful , sensual woman and she aroused in him the kind of emotions he had always condemned as sinful in others .
7 The old legends have not only this factor of being immortal , but they have in them the property of conferring the peak experience .
8 Another might be attracted to it because he sees in it the possibility of calendar reform .
9 I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame .
10 From such a quarter this is significant testimony ( though it prompts in me the reflection that it takes one to know one ) .
11 RACING legend Lester Piggott last night vowed to carry on riding as he lay in his The 11-times champion jockey has a partially collapsed lung , broken collar bone , damaged spleen , broken ribs and facial cuts after falling from his horse at 40mph in Miami .
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