Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tied up her ribbons and laid William gently in the cradle before saying , ‘ I think he will sleep now . |
| 2 | As I recall , then , it was only an hour or so after being first entrusted with the mission that I noticed the young Mr Cardinal alone in the library , sitting at one of the writing tables , absorbed in some documents . |
| 3 | I did , and to my disappointment , I found Edward alone in the library . |
| 4 | On Thursday afternoon , Melissa arrived at the college to find Barney alone in the staffroom . |
| 5 | And the boxes would even be warm when they landed at Wyre down in the hold of the steamer . |
| 6 | An item in your Diary ( 16 February ) is objectionable to myself and Bob Kernohan only in the lack of style that is employed in tittle-tattle and irony nowadays . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , folks , why not relax and enjoy the atmosphere : Jimbo alone in the tower . |
| 8 | The enthusiasm of both Margery Kempe and Richard Rolle for adopting a life-style which would itself openly express a response to God 's love as revealed in the Incarnation and their desire to teach others of this , betrays a deeply felt response to Franciscan teaching ; while Walter Hilton 's beautifully structured account of the progress to essential human fulfilment as inward discovery of the reality of Christ incarnate dying to sin but rising in love , one in heart and mind with God , places Walter Hilton squarely in the tradition of the theology of the Augustinian friars . |
| 9 | A wave of explosions in the Transvaal early in the month caused damage to post offices , multiracial schools , magistrates ' courts and a police training school . |
| 10 | Kate Curran and 32-year-old Angela were in Mrs Curran 's Edenvale Avenue home in the village of Eden near Kilroot , when the killer struck . |
| 11 | Salinas visited the United Kingdom , France , Spain and Hungary later in the month [ for January 1990 European visit , see p. 37274 ] . |
| 12 | ‘ Obviously we wo n't be deliberately kicking Gazza up in the air . |
| 13 | This was regarded by some observers as a major setback in Franco-Iranian relations [ see pp. 37424 ; 37929 ; 38212 ] with implications for a planned visit by French President Mitterrand later in the year . |
| 14 | He had a marvellous game , did n't waste a pass , won all his tackles , laid on both Martin Foyle 's goals , obviously Martin Foyle back in the side , took his goals so well ; really put himself about and Steve Foster at the back really held things together when erm things could have gone really calamitously . |
| 15 | Barnes 's England teammate Mark Wright is once more at the centre of transfer speculation , with new Premier League leaders Arsenal now in the frame . |
| 16 | Australian railways took up and developed the Italianate style which had been so influential in Britain and the United States earlier in the century , and by the time the principal Australian stations were built , classical was in style once more . |
| 17 | A Russian tanker had struck one off Kuwait earlier in the year . |
| 18 | A taped message from Escobar had been printed in the newspaper El Nuevo Siglo earlier in the month , saying that he would consider surrendering if the government ensured his safety and placed him in a prison in his home province of Antioquía . |
| 19 | He did not take Eleanor there in the end , though , as there was one that was even nearer and cheaper . |
| 20 | ‘ He had been off-colour after running in the Mildmay at Sandown earlier in the season and we found that he had broken blood vessels , ’ said Gaselee . |
| 21 | Rangers ' John Brown , consistently impressive for his club and a member of the Scotland squad against Portugal earlier in the season , will not be selected to meet the Germans . |
| 22 | In brief he said that the performance we produced against Chelsea was as good as that against Arsenal earlier in the year but the result was completely different , i.e a 4–1 win vs a 2–1 defeat . |
| 23 | City Diary : Nevile ahead in the name game |
| 24 | I find myself able to place the words , in all their moving directness , right into the laibon 's mouth as he spoke , with Ol Doinyo Lengai away in the distance looking like a steamed pudding , its runnelled slopes lightly coated with cream , poured from above but vitrified before reaching the base . |
| 25 | But there was no fairytale ending for Rathfriland 's Noel Weir who was always under the whip against Willowfield 's Colin Best in the final of the open singles . |
| 26 | There was bronze for the Oxford powerboat team of Dave Arthur and Pete Little in the world championships … they also took bronze in the European 's two weeks ago … |
| 27 | There was bronze for the Oxford powerboat team of Dave Arthur and Pete Little in the world championships … they also took bronze in the European 's two weeks ago … |
| 28 | He lay Tallis down in the shelter of tents . |
| 29 | Corinth , then , not Sparta , was most nearly affected by the rapprochement between Athens and Megara in 460 and , consistently with this , it was Corinth rather than Sparta who fought Athens hardest in the war which now broke out , the First Peloponnesian War , of 460–446 . |
| 30 | Poor Ivy alone in the house with her and sudden strange conversations about spiritualism and the stars . |