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

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1 After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’
2 Some ten years and several tasteful additions later , the present hotel was launched and it is with pleasure that we include it in our programme .
3 But rugby maverick , 34-year-old Tim Wilby , now guesting with his eighth club and who describes himself in rugby 's who 's who as a ‘ socialite ’ , lends his distinctive skills and experience to the pack .
4 I have to say though that with the terms on which we 've gone into the European Monetary System , a six per cent fluctuation either way , which as I said means from two seventy seven deutschmarks up to three thirteen ; there 's quite a lot of risk there for an exporter if he prices himself in deutschmarks and he gets it wrong .
5 There are tigers there , and there 's leopards and things called sloth bears , a sort of bear , but they 're actually quite rare so er we did n't see any of those , apart from the rhinos , we went very very quietly crawled under the undergrowth and we saw them in a water hole and they were just bathing there .
6 He hated the car and he hated himself in it ; he hated what it could do to him and what it had done to him .
7 ‘ Soon after that a different Man came by car and he put me in a carrier cage and took me into the darkness of a long journey , over bumpy roads , on to a ship , and into the most terrible place of all , an iron cage with obscured windows , which raced through the night clattering and clattering , a regular rhythm of metallic sound .
8 I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford
9 You use my deodorant if I leave it in there .
10 Franz Klammer made a skiing simulator and he had it in his garage , and what it was was a series of rolling logs .
11 How many of the popular novels of the past evoke derision rather than appreciation if we read them in too literal a spirit !
12 Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go !
13 at the beginning of next term because I know somebody in North Wales at the moment .
14 to work together and deliver an effective result because nobody gains anything in the eyes of the people of this county by allowing this thing to go on and on and on and what they feel is if we ca n't get to grips with it what on earth are we doing with our existence .
15 So I can muck about on that piece before I tackle it in here , so mm .
16 Ironically , it was the motor car which saved Huntercombe — not just as a means of travel but because the wealth of car maker William Morris , later Viscount Nuffield , secured its future when he bought it in 1925 .
17 Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims .
18 The words are almost worth committing to memory to serve as a warning light when you find yourself in danger of making use of a similar situation .
19 Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine .
20 Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen .
21 And who knows what may come of Labour 's long-overdue admission that we need someone in the cabinet specifically to fight our corner ?
22 Fortunately , one of her friends had done a first aid course so he put her in the recovery position and cleared her airways , then gave her the kiss of life .
23 As his wife had pointed out tartly , on many occasions , she herself would never get through a quarter of her work if she indulged herself in such idleness .
24 If an editing change or the execution of a command was a mistake , you can frequently ‘ undo ’ the error if you notice it in time ; ie ( generally ) before you do any more editing , or give any more commands .
25 I tell them that I have the heart of a small boy and I keep it in a jar on my desk ’
26 This whole scale concept across the entire fretboard is a powerful way of improving your familiarity with the fretboard , although you might not see the full implications of this exercise until you memorise it in all keys .
27 Last night at our gig in Cardiff there was a bouncer at the front and he caught a youngster and he hit him in the throat , and he could have killed him .
28 Even then you may have to use that extra bit of guile before you have one in the net .
29 In 1968 the Government introduced the Newspaper Ordnance ( Amendment ) Bill , which empowered the president to order a newspaper to cease publication when he considered it in the public interest to do so .
30 Mind you , some do a double-take when they see me in the flesh .
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