Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 2 | You turned round and said , do it in that one , so I 'm doing it in that one , then you changed to doing it in that one . |
| 3 | Quality and efficiency in grain distilling will be secured by concentrating it in two locations , at Leven and Glasgow , and investment in malt whisky production will focus on 27 strategically important distilleries . |
| 4 | He says that the council is obliged by the government to take full responsibility for young offenders — and that includes paying for keeping them in secure units . |
| 5 | Succeeds in driving one in three directions ( 4 ) |
| 6 | ‘ Why do you insist on seeing me in this horrible way ? ’ she finished up . |
| 7 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 8 | dir : Sounds like an excuse to loaf around doing nothing in particular to me . |
| 9 | If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ . |
| 10 | To date this has been placed on involving them in acute services where the current bulk of expenditure is for district health authority purchasers . |
| 11 | She scrubbed the old lino floor until it revealed a pleasant geometric pattern of tan , brown and yellow diamonds ; poured bleach , then caustic soda , and then her own physical energy into the stained hideous bath , succeeding in restoring it in several places to snowy whiteness . |
| 12 | As New Zealanders sifted through the ashes of their World Cup defeat they were beginning to realise that after forming a recipe with which to win the Cup in 1987 they just as surely set up a system which would lead to losing it in 1991 . |
| 13 | Chris , it seems , was so worried about his partner Jayne Torvill finding out about his relationship with Isabelle that he insisted on seeing her in secret when Jayne had gone to bed . |
| 14 | All this will be done privately because there is nothing to be gained by castigating him in public . |
| 15 | Oh I never think of putting them in that . |
| 16 | Cane syrup is a light treacle , first made in the days of the plantations when sugar was refined by boiling it in huge , black , iron vats . |
| 17 | The sample was obtained by selecting one in five of the 42 per cent of people who left school in Scotland in 1977–8 with few or no qualifications ( i.e. without at least a grade O in the Scottish Certificate of Education ) . |
| 18 | I have to say that each morning when I walk off platform 16 , I invariably see five or six BR employees hanging around doing nothing in particular . |
| 19 | This means there may be traces of metal in it and caution is advised before using it in marine tanks . |
| 20 | ‘ It will be enlightening to see if his new-found honesty runs to incriminating himself in any way , ’ observed Amiss . |