Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without so much as a backward glance she left the room , indignation clear in the rigidity of her spine as his mocking laugh rang out behind her . |
| 2 | ‘ Pull yourself together ! ’ she shouted at herself , mentally , like a true public schoolgirl ( one 's education never leaves one : even the religion stays stubbornly in the core of one 's being ) . |
| 3 | Attempting to execute a difficult move , paralysed in the core of his muscles by nervousness , Lucien lost his footing and ruined the sequence . |
| 4 | But somewhere hiding in the core of you , is there not a little worm of insecurity ? |
| 5 | But audiences sitting and watching can only join in the fun in their imagination and if the dancers are sufficiently out-going . |
| 6 | Stewart gave the car its first win at Zandvoort , and victories at the Nurburgring , by a staggering four minutes , and at Watkins Glen ensured him of second place in the championship to his former team-mate Hill . |
| 7 | He played a full season of grade cricket in Western Australia during our winter , without any recurrence of the back problems which limited him to under 40 overs in the Championship for us last summer . |
| 8 | His first victory ( at Monza ) ahead of Graham Hill , Dan Gurney , Luigi Bandini and Bruce McLaren and a third place in the championship behind his fellow Scot Jim Clark and his mentor Graham Hill . |
| 9 | The chances of Eubank ending up a punch-drunk boxing casualty are remote , and , likewise , he 's sparing in the abuse of his victims . |
| 10 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 11 | The general data presented by Cox are undeniable , but interpretation of the data rests on certain assumptions , principally that people act on an individualistic basis rather than as groups , and according to attitudes expressed in the quiet of their homes rather than in response to major events . |
| 12 | At first she tended to listen and take in what was said in order to mull over it in the quiet of her own bed . |
| 13 | But , I I do n't really think I could make it any clearer , but you need to , perhaps take it home and go through it again , and think about it and see if you can understand it , you know , in the quiet of your own bedroom , plus is a very useful time to try and learn things . |
| 14 | It would have helped to have had something to read in the quiet of my own home , so I could know what to expect in the future . |
| 15 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |
| 16 | Four years after a deaf , blind mentally handicapped woman was found dead in the squalor of her own home , a new register has been launched that hopes to stop the same thing ever happening again . |
| 17 | There was nobility as well as determination in the gaze with which she cut him short . |
| 18 | When she saw Mike in the pit — Mike who had helped her dam the slurry lagoon four years before — attaching a cluster to one of a line of cows , when she slapped the flank of that cow , and shut her eyes to inhale the air loaded with the smell of blood-warm milk , udderwash and cow breath , she was utterly content in the conviction of her seamless permanence . |
| 19 | In the hall she would put on her hat and , lulling all suspicions of decay and its mortifications to rest in the conviction of her own economical and resourceful genius , with Gigi on her shoulder , she would stand at the head of the basement staircase screaming ( Gigi would scream too ) for Silly-Willie and Brigid to come and take her instructions and give their assistance while she created some nauseating delicacy for Dada 's dinner . |
| 20 | This would help domestic industry to maintain both its market share and its profitability , as European and Japanese firms would be obliged to increase their dollar prices to compensate for a fall in the dollar against their currencies . |
| 21 | It was , predictably , a grammar school but of course by then part of a system in the capital in which secondary modern schools ( With some novel comprehensives ) predominated . |
| 22 | They learned to feel affection , but not to express sensual love , towards women they esteemed highly , in the first instance , in the relationship with their mother . |
| 23 | Herbert Chapman saw the key to the boxer 's success in the relationship with his manager Descamps , a relationship not of boss and worker , but of partners , combining managerial guidance with sporting skills in a common cause . |
| 24 | He had not come back after he had been given general advice , and he had what he describes as an uneasy peace in the relationship with his girlfriend . |
| 25 | The child gives limited eye contact and this had led to a breakdown in the relationship between him and his mother . |
| 26 | Henry II would need to have been an unusually stupid man not to realize that there were bound to be difficult moments in the relationship between him and his heir . |
| 27 | But behind that fact lie a lot of real pigs and real people , and a world of differences in the relationship between them . |
| 28 | In his view Tom was being used as a pawn in the relationship between his parents and unless his parents did come to an arrangement whereby ‘ a more stable home situation ’ was provided , Tom would benefit from a residential school placement . |
| 29 | Since the uncle is the boy 's heir , this shows that the jurist must regard a transmissible interest in the estate as having vested in the boy before his death ; which means that he is taking dies cedens to have passed , although the boy has not lived until age sixteen ; and that in turn means that he is interpreting the trust as subject not to a condition but to a term ( dies ) . |
| 30 | Sections of the population assist the police in the performance of their duties not just by taking on gunmen or robbers but also by making telephone calls to the police . |