Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HRM does not invalidate the procedures and skills of personnel management but , rather , places them in a different conceptual framework . |
| 2 | Place them in a warm dry position away from draughts or you 'll lose the lot . |
| 3 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 4 | She found him in a small single room that was obviously intended to be his dressing-room or study , furnished with a single bed , rows of built-in cupboards , and under the window a desk and chair . |
| 5 | No , they send it in a bloody big one . |
| 6 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 7 | She feels that I should take my cod and coalfish , garfish and grayling , salmon and sole and even the shark steaks , and install them in the old deep freeze in the garage . |
| 8 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 9 | My best dress that she 'd sewed , my blouses with her embroidery : I put them in the hard square leather case . |
| 10 | It was bad enough finding the poor bugger ; to be suspected of carving him up put me in a right tizzy ! |
| 11 | Later on Marcus came in , took a bag from inside the noise-maker and dropped it in a large crackling black bag . |
| 12 | Put in as many as the bottle will hold conveniently , and put it in a warm sunny place for 12 hours , and keep warm for the next 12 , then remove the spikes . |
| 13 | Put it in a verey Close Box for the purpose . |
| 14 | This product grabs Windows by the lapels and uses it in a whole new way . |
| 15 | It is difficult to combine them in a valid mathematical relationship . |
| 16 | On page 110 we 've used them in a wonderful vegetarian Christmas pie , and on page 77 freshly cooked cranberries have been combined with a shop-bought cranberry sauce as a chunky topping for apples to serve with goose . |
| 17 | All we want to do is go along and put forward our policies to discuss them in a well-mannered reasoned way . |
| 18 | He would see her in the old holey woollies she wore to bed , rather than an old-fashioned nightshirt . |
| 19 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 20 | An early picture shows her in a wide-brimmed black hat and white dress owned by Sarah . |
| 21 | I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him . |
| 22 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 23 | Add to this a language problem , surround the ship with smaller fishing vessels and throw liberal quantities of slimy mackerel underfoot , anchor it in a remote Scottish loch with vicious squalls of wind and rain roaring down from the surrounding hills , try working for days on end with very little sleep in these conditions and you have some idea of our difficulties . |
| 24 | Please spare my copies in future by sending them in a pale pink envelope with flowers on . |
| 25 | But at least we can express them all when we make love , release them in a fierce cross-current , emotional , mental and physical unity . ’ |
| 26 | She makes her own glazes from vegetable ash and fires them in a small wood-burning kiln we built together . ’ |
| 27 | This was partly due to ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , remixed by Stock , Aitken and Waterman and her third single on the PWL label , succeeding in breaking her in the all-important American market when it climbed to number three in the US charts . |
| 28 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 29 | You can do it , you do n't have to do it in a great long line , you can do it in a sort of cube or something . |
| 30 | I intend to do it in a proper English accent ( You can do it ) . |