Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't want to sit gossiping in the kitchen with that old slob of a cousin . |
| 2 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 3 | Studies undertaken to observe browsing in the shelf consultation show that the user handles a limited number of items in the process and ultimately selects but a few . |
| 4 | Only band I want to see playing in the world . |
| 5 | If the heads are restricted to general terms they are a useful means of outlining the transaction and identifying the main areas the parties want to see included in the sale agreement . |
| 6 | Do n't just 'phone him and say : ‘ Er … we want to go detecting in the park . ’ |
| 7 | This is where family work could be useful helping the whole family to understand the part alcohol has come to play in the life of the vulnerable elderly person , the pattern of abuse , the defensiveness about it , and the likely outcome . |
| 8 | RCI supplies sales automation software for the AS/400 and Unix markets , but has undergone restructuring in the form of management changes and product rationalisation . |
| 9 | So now , like Virgin founder Richard Branson before him , Sugar has decided to throw in the towel and buy his firm back . |
| 10 | The EC has offered to mediate in the dispute , which has soured relations between the two countries . |
| 11 | Only about 70% of households approached agreed to participate in the Family Expenditure Survey . |
| 12 | It is a privilege enjoyed by everyone in this country but because the library profession has a responsibility for some considerable part of the provision of and access to literature and information , there is a heightened obligation for the library profession in the UK to resist censorship with a much greater collective and individual will than it has tended to show in the past . |
| 13 | Sonny said : ‘ She has to quit living in the past . ’ |
| 14 | In Spain it has become fossilized in the corrida de toros , the bull fights highly ritualized by centuries of performance . |
| 15 | Often the survey is to be conducted after months of work on a theme , and by this time the researcher has become immersed in the work and tends to forget that other people do not have the same interest or knowledge . |
| 16 | Investors were expressing relief about a partial solution to the contracts issue , which has become entangled in the row between China and Britain over Hong Kong 's political future . |
| 17 | Engels argued , and this is a fundamental aspect of his work that has become obscured in the discussion over whether there ever were such things as primitive promiscuity or group marriage , against those who asserted that monogamous marriage and the type of family that was associated with it was a universally valid ideal of man , irrespective of social or cultural context . |
| 18 | Local people say they 're already swamped by visitors to Snowshill Manor , a sixteenth Century house , but the National Trust say their plans are designed to ease overcrowding in the village . |
| 19 | As a result of working on these matters , the Legal Services Committee has prepared a series of papers and has been preparing advice on the steps the profession needs to consider taking in the future in relation to such issues as direct access , partnerships , split fees , cab rank rule and how to compete with solicitors in a brave new world . |
| 20 | The first person has to start skipping in the middle and everybody says H P W R and if it landed on P the next person would have to skip fast . |
| 21 | About 99% of those approached consented to participate in the study and follow up is still continuing . |
| 22 | Mr Fallon enjoys his job schools minister so much he has asked to remain in the Department of Education and Science if he wins the Darlington seat . |
| 23 | This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade . |
| 24 | The Essenes , an extremely ascetic sect who withdrew to the desert region of Judaea near the Red Sea , appear to have originated in the middle of the second century BC at the time of the Maccabean revolt against the misguided Hellenizing reforms of the Seleucid ruler of Palestine Antiochus IV . |
| 25 | T. E. Yates has tried to maintain in The Spirit and the Kingdom that this prophecy was fulfilled in the ministry of Jesus , for he . |
| 26 | This chapter has tried to show in the space available — how complex was the evacuation experience . |
| 27 | Thus , where a husband leaves the matrimonial home while still owning it , the usual capital gains tax exemption or relief for a taxpayer 's only or main residence would be given on the subsequent transfer to the wife , provided she has continued to live in the house and the husband has not elected that some other house should be treated for capital gains tax purposes as his main residence for this period . |
| 28 | Despite frequent reports to the contrary Mrs Maxwell has continued to live in the house since her husband 's death , making just a few short trips away from Oxford . |
| 29 | Japan 's pivotal role in the world economy has provoked a search for the reasons why Japan 's economy has continued to prosper in the face of a lack of natural resources and a high degree of dependence on international trade . |
| 30 | A small group was reported to have stayed in the embassy in the hope of avoiding separation from friends or family en route from East Germany . |