Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | These guys do anything , you know , U turns in the middle of anywhere , they , they can do it , you ca n't . |
| 2 | By the 1930s the dominant force within Catalanism was the Esquerra , a coalition of democratic and republican groups formed in 1930–1 under the leadership of Francesc Macià . |
| 3 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 4 | The Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , a loose alliance of opposition groups formed in July 1990 , immediately applied for registration as a political party . |
| 5 | In its simplest use , the computer sits in a corner and each child has an individual session with relevant material ; so inevitably only a short time would normally be available . |
| 6 | Peter was aware of his heart thudding in his chest . |
| 7 | He seemed to be coming to a decision to tell her something , and she waited with her heart thudding in her chest . |
| 8 | And she went , her heart thudding in her chest with slow , painful beats and her mind a confused whirl . |
| 9 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 10 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 11 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |
| 12 | These are not competing principles of equal weight : the values listed in Article 10(2) are simply " a number of exceptions which must be strictly interpreted " . |
| 13 | The East German won , the Frenchman came second and Allan qualified in third place . |
| 14 | She could hear her heart crashing in her ears . |
| 15 | Beside her Rune looked what he was , she thought — purposeful and determined , master of his own destiny , the skin of his golden jaw so smooth that he must have shaved again before coming to pick her up , his hair gleaming in molten strands as the sunlight played on it . |
| 16 | For an instant , in her imagination , the ballroom was peopled with guests , and Benedict was partnering her , his gold hair gleaming in the light , his eyes on hers … dancing with the bride . |
| 17 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 18 | Mounted on fine horses and riding at a gallop , two abreast , naked to the breech-clout , their faces covered with white , red and yellow paint in fanciful designs , and decked with plumes and feathers and trinkets fluttering in the sunshine . |
| 19 | She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen . |
| 20 | At the broadest level , the Course contributes in a major way to the achievement of the Polytechnic 's overall aims . |
| 21 | At Hawes there are shops , cafes , pubs , a rope works , the biggest sheep mart in the Dales and a cheese factory where the traditional Wensleydale cheeses with their distinctive mild flavour and crumbly flesh are made . |
| 22 | How do we account for the minimal pairs given in Chapter 9 ? |
| 23 | Five guitar cases sit in the corner of the room , betraying his affection for — and expertise in producing — guitar-orientated groups . |
| 24 | SHEILA lived in a cottage on the rocky shelf of a mountain . |
| 25 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 26 | I mean , me and Will met in Carter Lane … ’ |
| 27 | Since May 1977 Labour no longer had an overall majority in the House of Commons , depending on Liberal or Nationalist support to remain in office . |
| 28 | A sentence formed in my head . |
| 29 | This is reminiscent of the hypothetical primal horde where the tribal father kept the women to himself and allowed the sons to remain in the family on sufferance ’ |
| 30 | The only sound was the sea against the rocks and the hollow call of hungry birds circling in the sky . |