Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The average recreational sailor owns around three sails , allowing them to sail in a wind band of between force one and five .
2 Mmmmm , you 'll make me dribble in a minute .
3 Cut a slice off the bottom of each pear to enable them to sit in a dish without falling over , and place in an ovenproof dish well spaced out .
4 That made me move in a hurry .
5 so I , I mean I suppose in a sense it would be good if you did actually change something but that 's not entirely necessary for me .
6 You want me to go in a garage and ask for , have you got a flick on band !
7 On the other hand , if the incentives are too high , they may themselves distort the market , by giving the beneficiaries an unfair advantage or enabling them to operate in a way which does not reflect genuine supply and demand .
8 But his father wants them buried in a family plot in Santa Inez .
9 I 'd hardly gone into the room when there was a cry as a woman found you slumped in a seat . ’
10 Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton
11 One day , when Sam found her weeping in a corner nursing a black eye , he told her she had got to stop .
12 Police found her lying in a pool of blood with the murder weapon nearby .
13 A friend of the dead woman found her lying in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor .
14 When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak .
15 The next morning they found him perched in a tree .
16 She found him lying in a pool of blood in his cot .
17 The earth is trying to move on a straight line through space-time , but the curvature of space-time produced by the mass of the sun causes it to go in a circle around the sun .
18 Wherever you are out with your dog try to encourage it to defecate in a place where you can clean up easily afterwards .
19 I found it folded in a corner , still heavy with the perfume of the Sheikha who had given it to me .
20 How long how many how many men would you need if you want it done in a quarter of the time ?
21 Now we 're obviously even split two in each three so aggressive group So remember want it to work in a group that a normal style so volunteers for groups ?
22 I myself am guilty , he wrote , in that I want the glass to be seen , I want it placed in a morgue and I want people to come in and see it , pay money and come in and see it , if needs be .
23 All kinds of conditioning causes us to act in a way that we know is contrary to what we really want .
24 As it was , I already knew of their resignation as both had phoned me to see if I would give them backing in a boardroom coup .
25 Because of the original engineers ' appreciation of its intrinsic brittleness , cast-iron members tend to be stressed to lower levels than steelwork and the way they were incorporated into buildings usually allows them to expand in a fire without generating increased stresses .
26 PROMOTER Frank Warren yesterday warned rivals Colin McMillan and Paul Hodkinson that greed could prevent them meeting in a world title clash .
27 They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair .
28 The jacket comes with a two-way front zip protected by a storm flap and fastened with press studs , while an internal front zip allows you to zip in a fleece jacket .
29 ‘ This historic loco is just the attraction and boost we need in a recession , and I 'm confident it 'll be just as popular with the public in Devon as it proved to be on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway in Cornwall . ’
30 if on the other hand he has have n't done your chores , on a Sunday , er , how do you expect him to live in a place like this .
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