Example sentences of "in [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let Turgenev know that he had enjoyed his Sportsman 's Sketches , but his interest in them probably derived from his love of hunting rather than from the fact that the stories cast aspersions on serfdom . |
| 2 | Exploring pictures and identifying detail in them soon becomes storytelling : ‘ What is the little girl doing ? ’ ; |
| 3 | This resulted in them not feeling involved in any way with the work enterprise . |
| 4 | Your mother looks wonderful in them though does n't she ? |
| 5 | Although horses do have many emotions , the belief in them only having two is also frequently demonstrated by conventional horse photography and in the show ring . |
| 6 | Finally , if my readers still have doubts about the general drift of my argument , let me ask them how else we are to explain why modern revolutionary movements which always aim to free those who believe in them always end by enslaving them ? |
| 7 | I thought that progressives , political progressives in this country were prepared to stand by public services and believe in them sufficiently to say this will cost you and we are prepared to put the bill to you because we believe you will pay the bill . |
| 8 | The comment may have been innocent enough , but it caused me to lose confidence in her and from that moment on something in me just froze . |
| 9 | I think he hoped I might eventually add distinction to the family name , of which he was intensely proud , and his initial interest in me also developed into affection . |
| 10 | I 've realized that this temperamental behaviour is the child in me not getting what I want . |
| 11 | Something in me still revolts at an outright demand : it draws me into explanations of the connection between money and work . |
| 12 | The burlesquing of the debate over this issue does not simply lie in the Nun 's Priest 's professions of inability to cope with such learned speculations : or in his finally declaring the problem irrelevant : Learned in-joking on one of the authorities on the subject of freewill and providence , Boethius , is also found in the fox 's ability to refer to Boethius ' book on music ( 3293 – 4 ) and the fact that the fox breaks into Chauntecleer 's yard " " By heigh ymaginacioun forncast " " , " Foreseen by High Imagination " ( 3217 ) . |
| 13 | Locke 's political philosophy is mainly contained in his anonymously published Treatises of Government ( 1690 ) . |
| 14 | Michael Young , in his paradoxically assumed role , quotes approvingly the strictures of Lord James on misguided attempts to generalize an élite education : |
| 15 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 16 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 17 | Macmillan recorded meeting Nkrumah 's wife ( he had married an Egyptian Coptic Christian ) and noted ‘ the pride and pleasure which he took in his newly born son . |
| 18 | James moved swiftly into the disorder being wreaked in his carefully arranged plates , set in order of service . |
| 19 | I had always believed everything he did and said to be sincere and genuinely personal , but gradually small cracks began appearing in his carefully constructed persona and well-tended integrity . |
| 20 | I remember how he flew unhesitatingly to Peru to protest openly against the bombing of human rights organisations there — and took the personal decision that it would be , in his carefully chosen words , ‘ inappropriate ’ for him to use the special security protection he was provided with . |
| 21 | Lorrimer came and stood inside the door , tall , unsmiling in his carefully buttoned white coat , and regarded Middlemass with his dark , wary eyes . |
| 22 | It consists mainly of criticism of the theories of absolute monarchy and the divine right of Kings , for which Robert Filmer had argued in his posthumously published Patriarcha ( 1680 ) . |
| 23 | And though Paine designed a London house for Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh , there is nothing else to connect him with Uppark , which he mentions nowhere in his thoroughly documented account of his own works . |
| 24 | On the morning of his operation a nurse helped Mr Reynolds to put on an operation gown after his bath and then encouraged him to rest in his freshly made up bed . |
| 25 | In his widely cited study Delinquent Boys , Cohen questions whether delinquent behaviour is caused directly by the desire for material goals . |
| 26 | Michael Grimmitt in his widely read book , What can I do in RE ? |
| 27 | In his well argued submissions Mr. Wall submitted that the discretion conferred on the court by article 13 ( a ) of the Convention is a discretion to be exercised ( a ) within the context of the purpose and principles laid down by the Convention and ( b ) by applying the criteria contained within the Convention itself , and that it is accordingly not a discretion to exercise the inherent jurisdiction of the court in wardship or under the Children Act 1989 so as to act in what the court perceives to be the best interests of the child . |
| 28 | In his well designed writing , too , Spenser reveals that the fruits of Renaissance humanism with its concern for eloquence ( a matching of rhetoric and substance ) as a demonstration of moral civilised life can be used to argue genocide . |
| 29 | Henry Hamilton claims , in his well managed English Brass and Copper Industries to 1800 , that " most of the German miners were killed , " but this is certainly not so ; nor is there any premiss conferring authenticity upon his statement that " the works at Keswick … were destroyed . " |
| 30 | In a daze of ever-increasing passion , she barely noticed as he gently removed her clothes , suddenly glad to be free of them and astonished to find herself revelling in his softly whispered murmurs of delight , the fierce gleam in his grey eyes , before first his fingers and then his lips began tracing patterns of fire on her quivering flesh . |