Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] in a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It obviously takes food to keep you in a good mood , Dr Vaughan . ’
2 Why did Granddad put it in a dump or of the pocket ?
3 While indulging his melancholy thoughts he had taken care to position himself in a nobly pensive attitude , with the candle at his side lending a glistening aureole to his dark profile .
4 That being so , there was no reason why the words of section 29(3) should not be given their natural meaning and so read , the power was clearly all-embracing , subject only to the qualification that the Home Secretary could not lawfully require broadcasters to broadcast matter involving them in a breach of their statutory duty .
5 Certainly , for household products , it makes sense to put them in a household setting .
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