Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordyn-Nashchokin , one of the more forward-looking Russian statesmen of the seventeenth century , objected in the 1660s to any permanent foreign diplomatic representation in the country because it would " bring harm to the Muscovite state and embroil it with other nations " and because foreign diplomats would " find out everything that went on in Moscow and tell it abroad " . |
| 2 | He had qualified at university in geology and geography , had tried teaching in Hull but found it too confining and when one of the old guard told him he should be spending more time with children who had some potential rather than those to whom he felt committed , he resigned on the same day . |
| 3 | It was this same Spirit that drove Jesus off into the desert to be tempted after his baptism , that pioneered the mission of the early Church often in the most bizarre , unexpected and ‘ unorthodox ’ ways ; that gripped a man like Philip , removed him from a flourishing evangelistic campaign in Samaria and drove him into the desert because there was one man who needed his help . |
| 4 | ‘ Frank ’ , 26 , lives with his parents in Chelmsford and wrote his 100,000- selling hit in their attic . |
| 5 | ‘ I met Drew in Panama and liked him a lot . |
| 6 | A child was writing a poem in Bengali and passing it on to another boy to translate for him . |
| 7 | I met Pat and her minders at a hotel in Cardiff and told her what we had in mind . |
| 8 | Police talked to the man for 90 minutes before breaking into the flat in Brighton and grabbing him after he threatened to light a match . |
| 9 | A guy I ai n't worked for before said he wanted to use someone from up here to call on a man in Brighton and advise him to lay off some property . |
| 10 | ‘ My husband and I have recently returned from our holiday in Czechoslovakia and felt I must write to say how much we enjoyed it . |
| 11 | I 've read things in papers people are supposed to have said and think , ‘ You obnoxious twat , I hate you for saying that , ’ but I know there 's gay people out there who read that thing in NME and know it 's a load of bollocks . |
| 12 | er is not a possibility of having more open days so that general public can come in to see what 's happening and not only advertise in Harlow but advertise I live in Bishop 's Stortford now in the surrounding districts erm time gets although you said you get fifty per cent of people coming from outside of Harlow it does n't matter where the people come from as long as they come so more open days free erm to get people to come in and er particularly er outside people also I would suggest that the er chairman 's of the local district council 's who are not contributing be invited to the open day to see what er the playhouse is doing for the people who live in there er council area 's to see whether we can get some more supports er as a Stortford resident I 'd be quite happy to add a bit on my community charge to go to the playhouse . . |
| 13 | A squad of armed and masked men had broken into MacCurtain 's home one night in March and shot him dead in front of his wife and children . |
| 14 | She had been dismayed to find that he must have made enquiries in Helmsley and tracked her down , but she 'd become a much more confident and secure woman since the early days of her marriage . |
| 15 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 16 | Years later , in exile , his former tutor , Augustin Filon , found him leaning against a window of the house in Chislehurst and asked him what he was looking at . |
| 17 | Austrian television quoted a witness in Timisoara as saying he had seen lorries carrying away ‘ cubic metres of bodies ’ . |
| 18 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 19 | Did you was it you who chose to go and work in Llaneilian or did they send you to work there from ? |
| 20 | If we 'd upset his applecart in busting out the hostages , then the radical fundamentalists might easily have taken over in Syria and given us a much worse problem . |
| 21 | In February and March it was hard going out almost nightly but he liked it and Joan got to know the wives and children of the clergy . |
| 22 | Federation legal sources said they hoped to launch the appeal in December and added they were ‘ very hopeful ’ the Ohio decision would be overturned . |
| 23 | He was buried the following day under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard , an Austrian Nazi who befriended him in Brazil and gave him his identity papers before returning to Vienna . |
| 24 | Immediately , Vesna Jurkic Girardi , Director of the Archaeological Museum in Pula ( today Croatian Minister of Culture ) got the case moving by bringing charges against an unknown person who had excavated archaeological treasure in the region of Barbariga in Istria and smuggled it out of the country . |
| 25 | I did ring Agnes away back in January and thanked her for having you ; I was ringing her partly to tell her that , strangely , one of her Hungarian friends from Southampton ( called ) is now the computer expert at Chambers , whose services I 've been using recently to accomplish the final formatting of my questionnaire and piece of sample text . |
| 26 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 27 | An immediate offensive might have given victory in Scotland and enabled him to march into England , where Thomas Forster and the Earl of Derwentwater were trying to raise the northern shires on behalf of the Jacobites . |
| 28 | The Chicheley-Smythes have bought an absolutely super villa in Sardinia and say we could rent it if we 'd like to . |
| 29 | A couple of hours earlier , on a hunch , Hermann Goering rang down to his main office in Carinhall and gave them a Stockholm number to obtain . |
| 30 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |