Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this same Spirit that drove Jesus off into the desert to be tempted after his baptism , that pioneered the mission of the early Church often in the most bizarre , unexpected and ‘ unorthodox ’ ways ; that gripped a man like Philip , removed him from a flourishing evangelistic campaign in Samaria and drove him into the desert because there was one man who needed his help . |
| 2 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 3 | I did ring Agnes away back in January and thanked her for having you ; I was ringing her partly to tell her that , strangely , one of her Hungarian friends from Southampton ( called ) is now the computer expert at Chambers , whose services I 've been using recently to accomplish the final formatting of my questionnaire and piece of sample text . |
| 4 | Despite high fences and danger warning signs , children managed to get into the remains of Lyppard Grange at Warndon in Worcester and use it as an adventure playground . |
| 5 | Of one preincarnation he is certain : he was , at some point during the Roman Empire , the director of a troupe of travelling comedians , the sort of plausible rogue who bought women in Sicily and turned them into actresses , a rowdy mixture of teacher , pimp and artist . |
| 6 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 7 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 8 | The band were initially looking for a lighting rig and a PA system to do a gig in Aberdeen and obtained them from the music shop she worked in . |
| 9 | With everything ready , I telephoned Brigadier Catto in England and told him about Daffodil Quentin and the touching little scene in the winners ' circle . |
| 10 | In the early nineteenth century , Lamartine stayed with the Damiani family in Jaffa and mentioned them in Voyage to the Orient , the same book in which he advertised the colonial possibilities of Palestine . |
| 11 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 12 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 13 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 14 | The great Florenz Ziegfeld saw the forty-eight Girls in the Folies-Bergère in Paris and took them under contract for a six month spell into his own Follies which he extended to three years . |
| 15 | I started riding on the buses in August and did it until November . |
| 16 | A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . |
| 17 | The aim of the research is to document new developments in the organisation of farming in Estonia and to compare them with modern arrangements in Finland . |
| 18 | Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate . |
| 19 | Britain in 1918 was deeply impressed with the strategic and military contribution made by those nations to victory in Europe and assumed it to be proof of the success of the Canadian model , to which the second Labour Government in 1931 gave statutory form , rather like catching moonbeams , by declaring in the Statute of Westminster preamble that the common identity of the sovereign was of the essence . |
| 20 | William Waldorf Astor made the collection in Italy and brought it to Hever where it forms a magnificent sight among the glorious display of shrubs and climbing and herbaceous plants . |
| 21 | An introductory epigram states that Clearchus copied them exactly in Delphi and brought them to this remote place of Bactriana . |
| 22 | Scott Bader are to close their Stratford Road premises in Birmingham and replace it with a new centre backing onto the Merryhill Estate in Brierley Hill . |
| 23 | A typical example of such a run originated with police information that a motor yacht named Glisseuse was picking up Asians from Nieuport in Belgium and running them into the Thames Estuary . |
| 24 | Kvallposten claimed that immediately after the search Mr Talb 's ex-wife telephoned a Palestinian family in Uppsala and ordered them to ‘ get rid of the clothing ’ . |
| 25 | You know , that in 1825 he bought an island on the Niagara River in America and offered it to all the Jews in the world to make a Jewish state called Ararat . |
| 26 | Of course , for serious devilry the War Bag has to go by itself , and a camera would just be a liability , but I have n't had a real threat for a couple of years , since the time some big boys in the town took to bullying me in Porteneil and ambushing me on the path . |
| 27 | In the second case the defendant was instructed by the owner to collect a quantity of krugerrands in London and deliver them to a safe deposit in Switzerland . |
| 28 | The idea that one can adopt an orphan baby elephant in Kenya and supply it with food and medicine for under £15 would be even more droll if I did not remember adopting a number of black babies in Africa as a schoolboy , and giving them foolish names like Chrysostom or Donaldina or Ambrose , at five shillings ( 25p ) a time . |
| 29 | ‘ The exhibition , ’ she went on will probably revive interest in the period so we grabbed some of the stuff from our theatrical costumes shop up in Clifton and added it to the mixture of period we have here . |