Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chukar-type partridges Alectoris are longer , more upright and slightly more pheasant-like than smaller Perdix , and readily distinguished where they overlap it in W and S Europe by black and white eyestripes , white chin and throat , broad black band extending from eye down neck to form breast-band , conspicuous black and white barring on flanks , and red bill and legs . |
| 2 | Scie Scientific or You want it in scientific mode if it says scientific |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , I hope I shall always be Kingy to you , Miss Sally-Anne , ’ making it clear that he included her in the charmed circle of his friends . |
| 4 | We use them as rubber and you hold them in your arms , alright ? |
| 5 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 6 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 7 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 8 | So how would we find an outside correspondence for jealousy , a way of writing about it that would make it real for the reader , so real that it puts him/her in touch with his/her own jealousy ? |
| 9 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 10 | ‘ People should remember alcohol is dangerous whether you drink it in the pub or at the Christmas carol concert . ’ |
| 11 | By the way , I 'm sorry if I dropped you in the soup just now . ’ |
| 12 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 13 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
| 14 | Obvious because it stares you in the face as you walk in to the corrie , and also because you can see that the icicle has n't quite formed despite rumours that it does . |
| 15 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 16 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 17 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 18 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 19 | Funnily enough a sing a double wardrobe which is four foot wide and eighteen inches deep if you split it in half , as the old ones could be , you end up with two pieces two feet and they actually can go up the stairs cos you can just get them underneath . |
| 20 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 21 | She says the birs are very good — as long as we keep them in families and feed all the young that 's all the parents mind about . |
| 22 | If your letter is not delivered on the first working day after your posted it — as long as you posted it in time to get there — then we automatically refund your fee . |
| 23 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 24 | The other side of the coin is that it is very satisfying and rewarding because it stretches me in every possible way . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm only happy when I see you in the theatre , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Everybody was impressed , it was a glorious day like this you know so the Clyde looks so beautiful when you see it in the , in , in a , in weather like this you know . |
| 27 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 28 | When he was imprisoned in 1768 for sexual sadism he managed to secure an early release by the devious means of getting his wife pregnant while she visited him in jail . |
| 29 | It is therefore essential that we study it in close detail . |
| 30 | ‘ We are putting a lot of money into these core plants to improve their efficiency and reduce variable costs , ’ Ewart emphasizes , ‘ It is vital that we keep them in good shape . ’ |