Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered what they were saying about her , up at the top of the house , as she undressed and laid her clothes out before sliding under the duvet in her underwear . |
| 2 | I said we 've got a duvet in my wardrobe . |
| 3 | My duvet in your wardrobe . |
| 4 | They hereby resolve to use every mean in their power to Detect the Deserters now presented upon a list … " |
| 5 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 6 | Roots had split the ground in places , and the thickest of these jarred the Toyota so hard that Diane had an uneasy vision of the entire truck falling apart as every spot-weld gave at once , leaving her sitting in the driver 's seat with the steering wheel in her hands and nothing but open air all around . |
| 7 | She seemed to have nothing on underneath , which made the wheel in my stomach behave in an entirely crazy fashion . |
| 8 | He held the driving wheel in his hands and said , ’ Brrrr , I 'm driving my car , Brrr — ’ |
| 9 | With the stimulus of a wheel in his hands Patrick did not feel sleepy . |
| 10 | The part of the Leicester relief road known as the SDDR — the southern district distributor road — is already discharging traffic on to the A6 at Oadby , a borough in my constituency , to the south of the city . |
| 11 | The progression to cirrhosis in our patient occurred despite the lack of significant inflammation . |
| 12 | When , for example , I was interviewing Moonies , I would ask them to describe their childhood and see whether religion was mentioned , then ask about the place of religion in their lives and see what kind of response I received before posing more specific questions about church going , belief in God , confirmation , the religious beliefs and practices of their parents — and so on . |
| 13 | I just wanted a religion in which gender was not of significance . |
| 14 | The scales are not neatly balanced as between secularism and religion in our society . |
| 15 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 16 | Dear God , We got a lot of religion in our house . |
| 17 | The interrelation of morality and religion in his thought is such that he regards them as convertible terms in the same way as Truth and ahi sā are convertible terms . |
| 18 | His interest in Edmund Ironside and Edward the Martyr is thus the first of several indications that attitudes to religion in his reign may have had distinct political overtones . |
| 19 | During a brief visit on Oct. 12 , 1989 , as part of a tour of Latin America , President François Mitterrand of France stated that the break up of the International Coffee Agreement ( ICA — see above ) " seemed to confirm Colombia 's isolation in its fight against drug trafficking " . |
| 20 | A brief isolation in his room sweetens up one child in five minutes . |
| 21 | That 's you looking at me , thinking ‘ Zambia Crevecoeur , whore ’ , and making up all kinds of garbage in your head . |
| 22 | A choir in his ears , a furnace in his eyes . |
| 23 | She clutched the soft sponge in her palm , feathery with water and soap . |
| 24 | The duty on an applicant to have recourse to ‘ effective and adequate ’ remedies extends to testing whether a possible avenue of redress will in fact operate to provide a remedy in his case . |
| 25 | For one thing , she knew very little of the Empress 's plans and had sensed Ypres 's disappointment in her replies . |
| 26 | He saw the sudden disappointment in her face , the flash of a scowl across her eyes . |
| 27 | She did n't attempt to hide the look of disappointment in her eyes . |
| 28 | ‘ And disappointment in your parents , too , for keeping it from you . ’ |
| 29 | There was only one small patch of disappointment in his vista of happiness . |
| 30 | ‘ This is my wife , May , ’ Otley replied with a hint of disappointment in his voice . |