Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] in an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 2 | The completion of the exercises involves them in an active learning experience . |
| 3 | Yet , the intimate knowledge of the sick individual often places them in an ideal position to link illness with iatrogenesis , and the better doctors will see such insight as a welcome assistance rather than interference , and make full use of it . |
| 4 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
| 5 | He further decided that she had not established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place them in an intolerable situation , and he ordered their return to Australia pursuant to the provisions of article 12 of the Hague Convention . |
| 6 | He submits that matters regarding their welfare can only be taken into account on the exercise of discretion under article 13 if they establish the criterion to be found in article 13 ( b ) , i.e. , that there is a grave risk that their return would expose them to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place them in an intolerable situation . |
| 7 | though this a bit rich and observed that it was the study 's authors who proposed , in effect , to remove directors ' responsibilities for judgmental matters and vest them in an omniscient panel of assessors . |
| 8 | I found them in an old file . |
| 9 | The mother says that it was not a wrongful removal and that , even if it was , she has a defence under article 13 in that there is a grave risk that the return of the child would expose him to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place him in an intolerable situation . |
| 10 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 11 | Bill cuts through the line after grabbing at thin air and landing it in an arbitrary process . |
| 12 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |
| 13 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 14 | Caroline Durkan , the GDA senior projects executive handling the scheme , said yesterday : ‘ It places us in an awkward position if we try to get cash from the public sector if the private sector do not see the benefits of Citywatch . ’ |
| 15 | Jokes that have to be explained lose nearly all their force , and no one ever laughs spontaneously at the explication of a joke ; even the terms we have at our disposal in English to discuss literature of this kind — comedy , humour , amusement , ridicule — are full of ambiguities demanding pedantic caution on the part of anyone who uses them in an analytical way . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 17 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
| 18 | Some furnishings , pot-holders and ornaments have a very strong-smelling varnish coating , particularly cheap bamboo products with a glossy surface If you have any items of this sort , banish them or put them in an airtight container . |
| 19 | Put them in an ovenproof dish and pour over the cooking liquid . |
| 20 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ The police took me to prison without a change of clothes , put me in an awful cell , I was amazed that I was accused . ’ |
| 22 | You put me in an embarrassing position . ’ |
| 23 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 24 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 25 | A mule will carry you in an easy day 's ride from the rim to the very bottom of the Canyon . |
| 26 | Put her in an early grave ? |
| 27 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 28 | ‘ You may perhaps gain the kingdom of heaven by your prayers , ’ he told him in an unkind moment , ‘ but never the kingdom of Great Britain . ’ |
| 29 | Local education and information campaigns , though well-meaning , have proved of dubious value in prevention terms , although it is sensible to educate local youth workers , school teachers , probation officers and the primary care team to recognize the problem and be able to tackle it in an informed way . |
| 30 | This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state . |