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

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1 Now I do n't know much about running gags from books previous that I ai n't been in , but it seemed to me that one of them was toting a 7.62 M134 General Electric Minigun , which in my books generally spells schadenfreude .
2 They 'll sit in their armchairs safely watching television and smiling at the children , and be eaten away by growths and shot in the heart by the disintegration of their own arteries . ’
3 Having it in their hands never made money their own .
4 Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned .
5 The way in which authorities apparently withheld information about the explosion and fire at the Zaporizha plant in central Ukraine will also generate fresh opposition to the industry seven years after the Chernobyl disaster .
6 The Motet Lord , Thou has been our Refuge , in which VW ingeniously combines Psalm 90 ( his own setting ) with the Hymn ‘ O God our help in ages past ’ ( to the tune of ‘ St Anne ’ ) to ravishing effect , should certainly satisfy those with a musical sweet tooth .
7 One of the dramatic differences between the world as pictured by M. de St. Croix from Trafalgar Square in 1839 and the one in which PHOTOGRAPHY NOW takes place 150 years later is , precisely , the proliferation of photographically originated signs .
8 Here , we mean by ‘ pragmatic ’ those aspects of language processing which stem from general knowledge about the world and about the way in which people normally convey information in language .
9 But he was writing from a world in which Riva only meant coastline and Best was something worn on Sundays .
10 In which George also uses Creation 6 for the Duomatic and Vario machines .
11 Shirley , sitting there mildly , the downstairs Shirley , thinking these thoughts , remembering the peremptory demands of the old , the attic Shirley , felt trembling in her , deep deep buried in her sitting-room centrally heated flesh , a wild improper memory , an admissible echo , the faintest thrill of a shudder of remembered desire : Shirley Ablewhite , the bad-good girl , called to her through the knot of her body , painfully , angrily , buried , buried alive , and Shirley Harper half heard her , bent her head , and acknowledged with mixed fear and relief the stirring , the tremor , the sulking , menacing , sweet and half despairing plea .
12 A tall man with an exoskeleton frightened her by demanding a retina-scan but the contacts in her eyes apparently passed muster because he let her through .
13 There therefore does n't seem to have been much of a change , and furthermore Smith ( 1983 ) in his text specifically entitled Recreation Geography has also followed this model , albeit in the modified form of the relationship between ‘ travel/resources ’ which he calls the two main branches of the tree of recreation geography .
14 Luke broke off without completing the shocked question , the appalled look in his eyes gradually giving way to contrition as he stared at her .
15 Unfortunately , a built-in survival aid in our memories often makes life more difficult — it 's called ‘ association ’ .
16 One reason why people in our area consistently vote Labour is that they are told by the Opposition that the whole country owes them a living and that everything that has happened to them — the economic misfortunes of past years — has been inflicted purposely by a Conservative Government .
17 ‘ Is it nothing in your eyes never to bring accusation against anyone ?
18 If there are any suitable events in your area please tell NDO .
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