Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is in some ways a tragic case : a man of immense talent and massive erudition , gifted with profound insights , who could not say the things he most wanted to say but who , nevertheless , has gone on to say them . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's in such agony , ’ stormed Perdita , ‘ why do n't we just put her out of her misery ? ’ |
| 3 | But I mean she 's in that room . |
| 4 | She 's in that sort of mold . |
| 5 | She 's done nothing but wee in my kitchen and now she 's in that corner ! |
| 6 | I 'll , I 'll ask this other girl who I do n't know so well but I 'm sure if she 's going that way , she , you know , she 's in that area anyway . |
| 7 | Yeah , well the one I got , I go , one I got five pound off she lives alone and she 's in that flat and everything . |
| 8 | If you really do n't think she 's in any danger , then I do n't know what else I can say to you . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As soon as you find out anything that suggests Heather is still alive , as soon as you learn where she might be or whether she 's in any danger , contact me at once . |
| 10 | I just hope she 's in this time . ’ |
| 11 | Each novel presents a main character in a situation in which he or she is in some way alienated . |
| 12 | or she is in some way masculinized : |
| 13 | If , at first , she is able to continue with her career , she is in some respects in the same position as the working wife and mother , who has the strain of two heavy areas of responsibility : her home and her job , but with several important differences . |
| 14 | I think it 's in all honesty the corporates have taken decisions |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , but I brought some in earlier ; it 's in that bucket there , and there 's peat there , too , and it 's dry . |
| 16 | It 's in the case of how we police students that the question about where we draw the line and how far we become engaged are most problematic , I think , and it 's in that case really that I 'm proposing this distinction . |
| 17 | It 's in that stuff they |
| 18 | asking if it 's in that booklet and it is n't , is it ? |
| 19 | Really careful with it but you still pick the outline up cos it 's in that area . |
| 20 | Well , it 's in that line of con , just below that line of concrete and the top of the door . |
| 21 | And there 's a section on the form which asks candidates to fill in their interests and it 's in that section that a candidate puts over their own personality , and so I would ask people who are applying to think very carefully before filling that section in , and to be both broad in what they say , that is to include all their interests , but also to be very specific as well . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's in many articles , ’ he shot back quickly , then paused , a little insecure . |
| 23 | I mean this is just the areas that I 've touched on , and again it 's in many cases it 's only fringe . |
| 24 | So , it , it 's in many ways a , a book that , that looks two ways , as it were , back and , and forward . |
| 25 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 26 | I expect it 's in this pile somewhere . |
| 27 | It 's in this year 's draft accounts too , but we have people called auditors who are going to recognize this bill , and ask all sorts of boring questions like why it has not been paid , whether it is likely to be paid , and if so when . |
| 28 | It 's in this way I think that Proust clears the ground in order to claim that the artist , be he writer , painter , musician , can capture reality by means not open to and indeed mostly at variance with the discursive intellect . |
| 29 | that particular on there actually only occurs the once , it 's in this position is er , a cluster of four houses together that erm is , if you like , as a , as a signature at the end of this particular |
| 30 | Er in my opinion at this particular time we must bear in mind the financial constraints that we work under and er would the board agree with me that erm survival comes first yes but it 's obvious that the programme that we 've er had put forward is a good compromise between preferred in the arts , maintaining the theatre as a viable proposition and er entertaining the people of this particular part of the world because as I understand it this theatre was not just the artist also an entertainment centre and it 's in this area that er it 's quite obvious when you look into the figures on this area the popular area that the majority income comes so you 'll have to make a compromise and I will congratulate the board on what I think is pretty reasonable compromise so it 's quite obvious in the programme . |