Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] in [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 2 | I do n't want to put it in me deposit you see , I want to put it in my next year 's commitment |
| 3 | Cerberus is nonetheless fallible , for HERCULES managed to overpower him in his Twelfth Labour with his bare hands while Orpheus lulled him to sleep with soft music . |
| 4 | I did choose it in my first book , The Selfish Gene , so I thought that here I would fly a kite for a somewhat less-fashionable theory ( although it recently has started gaining ground ) , which seems to me to have at least a sporting chance of being right . |
| 5 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 6 | Zara is relatively unknown outside Ulster so we have featured her in our Second Set series elsewhere in this issue . |
| 7 | Only Spurs have beaten them in their last nine visits to the capital . |