Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words seemed to catch in her throat . |
| 2 | He had never caused her breath to catch in her throat or her mouth to dry with a mixture of hope and dread that he might reach for her . |
| 3 | But there was no need to worry in his case . |
| 4 | Conscience gave her an uncomfortable nip , for it could n't exactly be said to be the height of honour for her to accept his invitation to dine in his home in the guise of a journalist when she was n't one , but Fabia went and studied her wardrobe . |
| 5 | Mass Ob gave specially produced round-bag samples to 300 people to try in their homes . |
| 6 | Equally , however , the constable and marshal of the army had authority delegated to them to try in their courts ( in which the military law was applied ) men such as deserters and those who broke the rules of discipline . |
| 7 | Brookes introduced the concept of ‘ periodical utility ’ , which he defined as the number of references a paper could be expected to attract in its particular library context during the period it remained in the library . |
| 8 | He himself was able to bequeath only plate and household goods , and to request in his will to be buried under a ‘ plain black stone ’ with a simple inscription recording his Christian belief . |
| 9 | I turn back to Rachel to nestle in her warmth . |
| 10 | This time his fingers seemed to tighten in her hair , drawing her mouth like a prisoner against his . |
| 11 | His eyes narrowed and a muscle seemed to tighten in his cheek . |
| 12 | But even under optimal conditions in captivity , we see very different potential lifespans in organisms that do not seem to differ in their risk of damage , showing that the degree of ageing has evolved . |
| 13 | People can be expected to differ in their abilities and this inevitably gives some people a comparative advantage in processing information , making decisions , and communicating them to others . |
| 14 | Whatever lingering nostalgia he might have felt , Delves chose to look ahead , to concentrate on the new business opportunities that Mr Akayev is keen to encourage in his ‘ little Switzerland ’ , most of which has only in recent months been opened up to foreigners . |
| 15 | Definitely an insect to encourage in your garden . |
| 16 | This is something that many parents also find difficult to accept in their daughters . |
| 17 | Here it is sufficient to say that , disagree with their particularities as one may , they present a good working model of sexual development and one which it is hard not to accept in its essentials . |
| 18 | To be a highly visible minority of two in communities which were often as expressive as they were antagonistic was an abrupt reversal of the roles we had so unthinkingly come to accept in our British prep schools . |
| 19 | You 've go to know in your mind what you 're going to talk about . |
| 20 | If you say , ‘ Well , of course , yes , I can easily explain that , but basically we 'll transfer the the , the handling of the enquiry to A Department , which of course has responsibility to B , but B ca n't do that without C , ’ you have to know in your own organization that that 's the way the procedure works , but it will mean nothing to the listener . |
| 21 | He has , therefore , to know in his own mind how much power he can harness into a technique and what he is capable of . |
| 22 | When we asked who had won , we were told it was a pet dog called , but her owner , , would love to come in her place . |
| 23 | Jane knew from bitter experience that love is a rare thing , so she felt very strongly that nothing should be allowed to come in its way , that nobody should be condemned to endure the rest of life with those two small , sad words : ‘ if only … . ’ |
| 24 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 25 | Never went hungry , no my mother always have a good , always used to have a good table , very good , we were a very lucky family , anybody used to come in our house on a weekend they always thought there was a party every weekend . |
| 26 | They all came down and used to come in our rooms and all sorts of other and I met some very ni and of course , all nationalities , you see and no matter what they were , well of course Cambridge has always been noted for different nationalities , has n't it ? |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd like to come in your mouth , and watch you swallow it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The cheque 's in the post , I love you and I promise not to come in your mouth , ’ Porter added . |
| 29 | Celia began to write in her notebook . |
| 30 | As a student at Columbia University , New York — where he took a degree and a doctorate — and subsequently as a teacher of biochemistry at Boston University , he continued to write in his spare time . |