Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes When I put on red one day , I mean I do n't think I have anything in red do I , but when I put on my clothes in the morning |
| 2 | ‘ You expect me to accommodate you in that ? ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , why d' ya snap it in half ? |
| 4 | Luisella had also been the child of a successful businessman , owner of one of the most important chemist 's shops in Treviso , and she too had had brothers who had dominated her childhood , driving her to defend herself in unorthodox ways . |
| 5 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 6 | I do as I 'm told , and he told me to include you in this job . ’ |
| 7 | Oh that 's erm your objection er was nobody had seen me and you did n't really answer the question clients by coming in to their homes you know , Martin made the comment er that in actual fact nobody had seen them seen them in six or seven years so I thought that was a possibility for a just er oh n maybe not as deep a but nevertheless erm there was a good , good pause er er how did you er come to be with Friends Provident er you , it was good that you asked er er if the wife would be attending the second meeting , that was an important thing . |
| 8 | Tallis had seen nothing like them in all her life , their hides so thick , their fur patterned in blacks and browns and whites , infested with parasites . |
| 9 | Erlich had seen nothing like it in CI-3 , in Washington Field Office , where each room had photos of wives stuck onto cork boards , of kids , postcards from vacations all over the world , cartoons , clippings of headlines and a huge blow-up of a quote from an English thriller writer : ‘ The most suspicious , unbelieving , unreasonable , petty , inhuman , sadistic , double-crossing set of bastards in any language [ are ] the people who run counter-espionage departments . ’ |
| 10 | Er let me tell you in any self employed business you 're gon na have to have a car . |
| 11 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
| 12 | Its small size and durable design allows you to use it in many convenient locations . |
| 13 | No , I have n't done anything recently , but today I actually rang publishing one of the papers about Sabri 's release and spoke to a guy at the Herald and Post and someone at The Observer , said I hope you put something in this week . |
| 14 | put it put it in that one . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the tone in which they are expressed , and the language they are couched in , prevent our taking them in that way , and recall for us rather the heads of Auden 's indictment : ‘ lazy … too easily bored … persuaded beyond argument … ’ |
| 16 | She 'd never seen anything like it in other people 's houses , or in shops — not even antique shops . |
| 17 | I 've never seen anything like it in all my life . |
| 18 | I 've never seen anything like it in 30 years of voting ! |
| 19 | Round she went , mouth slightly parted , eyes seeing who knew what in that circle of lights running into a liquid line as the machine quickened ; in the faces , all one blur below her as she was swung out to them and back away from them again ; in the dark caverns of leaves away above in the trees which seemed so distant , so other , lit in strange patches by the wandering spotlights , strange shadows feeling their way over branches as the lighted islands in the gathering dark turned and twirled , swayed , shuddered , slowed and came to rest . |
| 20 | My God , not if I have to kill you to keep you in this bedroom ! ’ |
| 21 | The thrifts-rescue act of August 1989 at first contained a clause banning thrifts from holding junk bonds , later weakened to require them to place them in special subsidiaries insulated from deposit insurance . |
| 22 | If they 'd known it , if they 'd wanted to , they could have got me to do anything in those minutes . |
| 23 | Conversely , most other students , as well as former ‘ women 's libbers ’ , with whom Laura might have thought she had nothing in common , warmly welcomed her clothes . |
| 24 | Flaubert 's Dictionary offers a course in irony : from entry to entry , you can see him applying it in various thicknesses , like a cross-Channel painter darkening the sky with another wash . |
| 25 | Would you like us to take it in roman numeral order . |
| 26 | I suppose you get it in most things . |
| 27 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 28 | They meet , they chat , they find they have something in common which is their grief and eventually love blossoms . |
| 29 | Hence the two highly ‘ cultured ’ individuals who meet at a party and find they have nothing in common to talk about . |
| 30 | During the course of er this meeting you will hear from the Chairman and the Honorary Treasurer and we may well cover an enormous amount of the grounds that is relevant to you as commodores , members and officers of the Association and it might be worth , I am going to avoid what he 's trying to avoid most of that area because I believe they cover it in greater detail and give you more of an opportunity to find out precisely what 's been going on . |