Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pray take my arm m'lady and I shall convey thee hence in the twinkling of an eye . ’ |
| 2 | He would help fructify their holdings , bring them up in the world where they should be . |
| 3 | Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ( Eph. 6:1–4 ) . |
| 4 | Paul 's direction to parents is contained in the words , ‘ Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ’ ( Eph. 6:4 ) . |
| 5 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 6 | Now unle now unless there are any participants that want , really burning to make a comment , er I feel that we have settled , well we 've had enough discussion on little A , I 've got enough , well I 've got enough from you in terms of your views about size of settlement , and Mr Brighton has pointed me again in the direction of his submission about er the definition of an integrated and balanced community , I would like to know , er from Mr Davis whether he concurs with that sort of interpretation , and I have a feeling that we have also had an expression , generally , that at the moment one settlement is probably appropriate , if you have to have a new settlement . |
| 7 | The mathematics were simple : £10,000 would enable them to fatten up their piglets , sell them off in the autumn , clear their overdraft and continue preserving all the surviving Old Spot bloodlines . |
| 8 | You do n't want them up in the top the next group |
| 9 | Oh yeah , well , he has probably eat nothing even in the day and . |
| 10 | And then he asked me out in the end . |
| 11 | we take some of them part bake breads and some cheese and biscuits and a great big packet of cheese and , and you just you know , you can either just sit there , but the food , once you get down the food is so cheap you do n't want nothing else in the heat . |
| 12 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 13 | If you have prepared bottles of formula in advance , cool them quickly in the fridge and keep them there until you 're ready to use them , with sterilised teat caps on . |
| 14 | ‘ Lay me quietly in the earth ’ , he requested , ‘ … no monument to mark where I am laid . |
| 15 | The administrator 's greeting made everyone else in the room turn round to look . |
| 16 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 17 | Their performances have , over the years , given ordinary people a much-needed reason to feel pride in their native city , while binding them together in the sharing of two terrible tragedies . |
| 18 | By choosing to investigate the ideas behind Magritte 's art , Sylvester 's discussion of important pictures such as ‘ The Annunciation ’ or ‘ The Rape ’ is fragmented and spread over different chapters , an irritation aggravated by the publishers who have failed to give plate references to the illustrations and cite them appropriately in the text . |
| 19 | And for at least one parent , there was an awareness that sometimes children 's sense of justice can be hurt by parents not taking some of the blame : ‘ If a kid arrives late for school , or is not properly dressed , then that 's not the kid 's fault , it 's the mother 's fault , or whoever got them out in the morning . |
| 20 | Yes that 's a good idea sit them together in the hall . |
| 21 | I mean I normally in the past I 've always gone for experienced keepers because you know I mean they they do n't come to their prime until , I do n't think goalkeepers over twenty six twenty seven onwards . |
| 22 | If the description fits someone else in the office , take action . |
| 23 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 24 | ‘ It was very competitive with everyone stabbing everyone else in the back as they tried to become stars . |
| 25 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 26 | Kellard looks me briefly in the eye . |
| 27 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 28 | As the young owls had fledged , he said that we might expect to find them anywhere in the area , and that the best idea was for us to fan out and scan the branches . |
| 29 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |
| 30 | Four days later found me out in the garden learning the ‘ Western roll ’ over a beautifully ( if hastily ) made high jump frame . |