Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Summerchild lived in Greenwich with his wife and seventeen-year-old daughter . |
| 2 | The medium-sized town stations sometimes reflected the styles in vogue for their grander counterparts . |
| 3 | Indeed , this used to be the main argument of opponents of black holes : how could one believe in objects for which the only evidence was calculations based on the dubious theory of general relativity ? |
| 4 | Katherine , as they made their way up the stairs , made no attempt to answer Portia 's unspoken question and engage in confidences about her mother . |
| 5 | A few days later I did question Shadwell about the possibility of not being covered in shit for my debut as a professional actor . |
| 6 | It brilliantly combines a legitimate trepidation about the Nazis with a certain ambivalence ( perhaps typical of those on the bourgeois Left in Britain at the time ) about the Russian bears who may or may not have been rescuing him , resolved in the end by the arrival of the charming governess — " better keep a hold on Nurse , just in case of something worse " ! |
| 7 | Charity closed her eyes at Nigel in distaste and asked coldly , ‘ In case of what ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ In case of what ? ’ |
| 9 | In case of what ? |
| 10 | In case of what ? |
| 11 | In case of what ? |
| 12 | ‘ Just in case of what ? ’ |
| 13 | I like to think there are n't many tricks I miss , but I have to credit Sorrel in that she did write it down on a scrap of newspaper without saying ‘ in case of what ? ’ |
| 14 | He did n't need to elaborate in case of what . |
| 15 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |
| 16 | Yes my Lord er as soon as we went to the main bedroom which was the back bedroom at the same time as as that bedroom door opened , so the second team consisting of er P C P C would have gone into the second smaller bedroom and at the same time as we went in er P C and P C job er was to cover our backs in case of anybody in er the kitchen or the living area , the living room area . |
| 17 | The shadow spokesman for employment chose Grail engineering in cinderford for his visit to the forest of dean . |
| 18 | Rebelling against the bland uniformity of the base , and to the amusement of many of his colleagues , Yukio had grown a bushy , spade-shaped beard in emulation of his cricketing hero , W. G. Grace . |
| 19 | The company was returned to private ownership in mid-1987 in what was seen as a retrenchment and change in direction of its development . |
| 20 | The old lady was in raptures over him , however . |
| 21 | Revealingly , not one of the 24 leading directors invited to fantasise in Projections about what they would do with complete creative freedom and limitless cash can make any sense of the question . |
| 22 | We campaigned ferociously to ban the stuff that could kill people in minutes with its toxic fumes . |
| 23 | She had long shapely legs and had been known in Moscow by her nickname , ‘ The Smooch ’ . |
| 24 | Maybe if she confided in Kelly about her background , the other woman would be more understanding , Shannon thought ruefully . |
| 25 | However , this does not prevent the target 's board from criticising the buyer publicly and in circulars to its shareholders . |
| 26 | The firm is also doubling its floor space as of June 15 when it adds adjacent offices in Marlborough to its plot . |
| 27 | It consists also in attitudes about what justice and fairness require in the relations between government and governed , and some of these must be fundamental . |
| 28 | It consists also in attitudes about what justice and fairness require in the relations between government and the governed , and some of these must be fundamental . |
| 29 | Moreover , France had good ships in quantity and merchandise in plenty with which to trade . |
| 30 | Right what we 're going to do is to introduce the idea of expectations right , cos what this equation 's really saying right is that farmers expect price prevailing in T minus one alright to prevails in S T right so that 's what we 're , right , in their ex their expectation of prices in T , right are based on er current prices in sort of T minus one okay and that , that is what we would call erm expectations alright . |