Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 2 | Salim reads about their doings in his magazines of popular science , and letting Ferdinand into the secret of his interest , he feels he is revealing his ‘ true self ’ . |
| 3 | Lawyers are also more familiar with the Commissioner and are more frequently pointing clients with complaints about their unions in her direction . |
| 4 | A wash basin neatly boxed in , a big fitted wardrobe with even a rail for her shoes in it . |
| 5 | After the Anglo-French reconciliation of 1303 , Edward wrote to Marie of France thanking her for her letters in which she expressed her desire for a meeting and conversation between him and her stepson , Philip the Fair . |
| 6 | A spokesman at the Los Angeles hospital said the 63 year old actress — famous for her roles in My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's had a ‘ low-grade malignancy ’ and that doctors were confident they had removed the entire tumour . |
| 7 | ‘ as if I 've got such important things to do tomorrow morning , ’ Jo grumbled through her giggles in her own voice . |
| 8 | Frank is — not — in the first national team at the moment ; Norway 's coach Egil ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen has no place for people who are not in the first-11 for their teams in his 16-man squad . |
| 9 | At weekends she 's out with her husband or preparing something for their friends in her new kitchen with its microwave , food processor and dishwasher to take the strain . |
| 10 | ‘ The plain truth is that farmers did not recognise the inevitable and lobby hard enough for their interests in what was an entirely predictable future . |
| 11 | They wanted military bases for their soldiers in her country and she did not want them . |
| 12 | Some years ago The Sunday Times invited parents ( representing a wide range of social backgrounds ) to list the things which they felt to be significant for their children in their years of primary schooling . |
| 13 | Resentment among the locals grows at their inability to find housing for their children in their village . |
| 14 | Can you put some of them scraps in it ? |
| 15 | He was sitting underneath a high bit of cliff with my purple stripy barrel-bag beside him and a sheaf of my dreams in his hands . |
| 16 | It was something of a shock to see one Polynesian , his face a wide grin , trot down the gangplank carrying a sack of flour on his head and one of my suitcases in his right hand . |
| 17 | Erm eventually er , one of my teachers in my school had migrated to this country and he was living in Southall at that time and he was working in a bakery . |
| 18 | ‘ If I loved him , replied the river , ‘ it was because , when he leaned over my water , I saw the reflection of my waters in his eyes . ’ |
| 19 | E there 's hardly a shop ion Holyhead you can go into wh which has n't got one of my posters in it , for something or other like you know . |
| 20 | The last of these was ironic , not to say cynical , for much of the manpower used in the building of the Valle de los Caídos had been provided by political prisoners , who were allowed to redeem part of their sentences in what was , effectively , a labour camp . |
| 21 | With smaller firms , you may be near enough to visit the factory , or they may offer to put you in touch with some of their customers in your area . |
| 22 | Few under 75 had spent any time in such homes but more than half those dying when they were aged 85 or more had spent at least some of the last year of their lives in one . |
| 23 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |
| 24 | But competition from Italy will be intense — even though the Italians may have drained some of their resources in their own tour , the Giro d'Italia in June . |
| 25 | The vast majority of private companies and many unlisted public companies impose restrictions on the transferability of their shares in their articles of association , thereby limiting the scope for takeover offers . |
| 26 | People who live in the country and are close to nature , like Tess , keep many of the pagan ideas of their ancestors in their souls . |
| 27 | Because firms have no discretion over prices but must passively accept the price prevailing in the market they have no ‘ market power ’ : they can make profits only at the level that justifies the continued employment of their assets in their existing use and are unable to effect a transfer of wealth from customers to themselves . |
| 28 | Some 200,000 members were expected to lose most of their savings in what was described as the worst collapse of a deposit-taking institution in Australia since 1990 . |
| 29 | Competition for the award was hotly contested , but Newark won by a neck for improving All of their exhibits in one fell swoop ! |
| 30 | For reasons to be explained , the original legislation was found to be defective , and was amended in 1976 ( and placed into the legislative context of the Public Order Act 1936 ) , but even after amendment it still gave rise to complaints that it fell short of the aspirations of its promoters in its effects . |