Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The behaviour of Violet Needham 's young characters and the patterns and manners in her books make them period pieces nowadays ; her prim , earnest , winning girls and ardent , courteous boys are as alien to our times as Marco Lorestan is . |
| 2 | I have never seen such manners in my life before ! ’ |
| 3 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 4 | Now it 's come down to it , they 're all assholes in our family , to put it politely . |
| 5 | POLICE are stepping up patrols on Wrexham industrial estate after a spate of factory break-ins in which office equipment and other property was stolen . |
| 6 | GCC central bank governors meeting in Manama ( Bahrain ) on July 16 agreed to co-operate to reduce banking risks in their countries . |
| 7 | ‘ My colleagues have always ‘ used ’ me to put forward new ideas because I am perceived as one who will take risks in my career , ’ says Linda Hart , the one US-born female manager who took part , now working back in New Orleans . |
| 8 | As a medium it is supreme among the arts in its ability to portray the real world , hut it is in itself quite artificial , and it speaks to us by way of a pictorial language which first took shape during the early days of the silent cinema . |
| 9 | Oyama was Korean by birth and was exposed to both Chinese and Korean martial arts in his youth . |
| 10 | Parents at this point of desperation often can not identify any good characteristics in their children . |
| 11 | Matthew writes for Jewish Christians and in so doing displays Jewish characteristics in his book . |
| 12 | Triple X-rated comedian Kevin ‘ Bloody ’ Wilson , who started performing in football club smokos in his home town of Kalgoorlie five years ago , returns on Thursday . |
| 13 | Keep pets in their place |
| 14 | I do not approve of animal pets in my properties . ’ |
| 15 | I was very happy ; and if sometimes the familiarities in our relationship were of an irritating nature ( like the way he teased me , as he had always teased me , about my sticking-out ears , for instance ) I pushed them aside and refused to acknowledge them — even when they were quite important , the sort of things on which the nagging small voice was once wont to pounce as reasons against any positive commitment . |
| 16 | The Beatles originally included soul songs in their set , and were not specifically rock'n'roll … |
| 17 | ‘ Quite often I write songs in my head , ’ he claims , before getting up to answer a phone call from Brett , looking to arrange rehearsal times . |
| 18 | Presumably there 's so many songs in your repertoire that you you 've no need really to get a new one er you as artists might want to get a new one but you 've got so many er evergreens I mean you could go on for ever with just the evergreens could n't you ? |
| 19 | Ideally , you should record the three strongest songs in your set . |
| 20 | Instantly 20 soldiers buried their massively muscled pincers in my stick , possibly never to let go , while dozens more swarmed up the stick causing me to let go with alacrity . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , to ensure that the Germans did not rush reinforcements by rail to the threatened area , General Alexei Alexeievich Brusilov , commanding the South West Front , was ordered to make menacing probes in his area . |
| 22 | He collaborated closely with the Russian ambassador , Count Ostern , and worked to secure a defensive alliance with Sweden ( 1766 ) , safeguard British trade , and prevent France 's resurgence in the Baltic by supporting the party of the Caps in their resistance to the pro-France Hats . |
| 23 | They moved their feet uncomfortably and avoided his eye , turning their caps in their hands . |
| 24 | They queued , docile and long-faced , by the window , their caps in their hands , waiting to be allowed to peep inside . |
| 25 | Well everybody wore caps in them days did n't they ? |
| 26 | The results of his experiments were published in a series of papers in the Annalen over the years 1860–6 , entitled ‘ On a New Class of Organic Compounds in which Hydrogen is Replaced by Nitrogen ’ . |
| 27 | • many banks forgot their traditional cautions in their head on scramble for increased market share ; and |
| 28 | There were two centuries in their total , scored by Marshall Kilgore and Ireland 's batsman Stephen Smyth . |
| 29 | But there may well have been situations in which the boot was on the other foot ; and in the centuries before the tenth , the centuries in which slavery was steadily declining , there is no reason to suppose that land was scarce , or that the landlords normally had the whip-hand . |
| 30 | What these scholars did was to place their own ( negative ) evaluations of [ h ] -loss on to the speech communities of earlier centuries in which evaluations of this phenomenon were not necessarily the same . |