Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were n't hurting anyone or upsetting anyone , it was n't as if we stood in the corridor kissing and cuddling . |
| 2 | It 's almost as if he paces in the corner of the office waiting to get his hands on me — and he gets jealous when I 'm writing about someone else . ’ |
| 3 | Candace Rainford was clinging to his arm and he did not look as if he minded in the slightest . |
| 4 | Jake spoke ; his voice was different , deeper and more echoing , as if he spoke in the language of the half mortals . |
| 5 | It seemed to Carolyn that there must be a vividly speeded up life flitting through the infant 's dreams , as if it skimmed in the air like a bird over the facts of its life and they were reflected as changingly and as unknowingly on its face as the moving bird would be in seas , rivers , lakes , in stagnant puddles on flat roofs , and silted-up canals . |
| 6 | and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago . |
| 7 | Peter often tried to describe what Kate looked like as she stood in the doorway , half in , half out , glancing at her watch and swinging an embroidered bag barely large enough to take a packet of cigarettes . |
| 8 | Of course , such decisions are medical matters in that they arise in the context of the professional relationship of doctor and patient , and they are for doctors to make in that the doctor is the professional ‘ on the spot ’ caring for the patient . |
| 9 | At this point , inevitably , they were dissidents from their class , and in one sense rebels against it , but in a specializing way , in that they found in the arts of painting and poetry an alternative to the dominant social and cultural order . |
| 10 | ‘ Everything depends on whether he appears in the morning . ’ |
| 11 | She said for when I get in the car . |
| 12 | I 'm not sure what I 'm aiming for when I look in the mirror . |