Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As daylight , ’ she snapped , before giving a heavy sigh as she realised that , yet again , the horrid man had succeeded in putting her in the wrong . |
| 2 | Wimpol remains totally committed to supporting you in the development of your career and , through suitable training , to ensuring that you play a full part in the company 's continued growth . |
| 3 | So we hid it somewhere really good , where nobody 'd think of looking ! — Anyway , it do n't matter about putting it in the bank now , does it ? |
| 4 | The imposition of a curriculum from above will not mean , if assurance given by politicians is to be believed , that teachers will be prevented from delivering it in the way they think most appropriate . |
| 5 | The Messiah has done for us what we could never do in putting us in the right with God ; and the gift of his Spirit releases us from the need to try to justify ourselves . |
| 6 | At this point , the trustees decided that the future of the church would be best secured by vesting it in the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 7 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 9 | The dynamic nature of phase equilibria can be understood by considering them in the light of the kinetic theory . |
| 10 | Two boys arrive after spotting us in the distance . |
| 11 | If you wish to make Abbeylink deposits you must use the official envelopes provided by us and ensure that the envelope is properly sealed before depositing it in the Abbeylink machine . |
| 12 | ASSURED TENANCIES — residential tenancies in properties that are newly built or have had at least £5000 spent on improving them in the two years before they were first let . |
| 13 | If the post is a pivotal one , consideration should even be given to advertising it in the local press and community newspapers . |
| 14 | Forest manager Brian Clough insists on keeping it in the family after Liverpool boss Graeme Souness had made a move for Nigel . |
| 15 | And I 've gone off making it in the morning . |
| 16 | When my colleague had said that , with me sitting right beside him , I felt like punching him in the face ; it was that kind of attitude that any campaign would have to fight . |
| 17 | The other day , in America , the driver of my car said : ‘ I do n't know how you can leave her , ’ and I felt like smacking him in the face . |
| 18 | The defendant was involved in a scuffle with a constable and was successfully charged with obstructing him in the execution of his duty . |
| 19 | But the PRO is charged with keeping it in the public eye . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The seam allowances of the following seams are self-neatened by enclosing them in the seam itself , and are therefore useful when making unlined curtains . |
| 22 | For example , Gumperz identifies the following functions ( 1982 : 75 – 84 ) : quotations ( using a different code to mark a stretch of quoted speech ) , addressee specification ( choosing a code to pick out one 's intended addressee ) , interjections ( " sentence fillers " offset from the the main content of the sentence by a code switch ) , reiteration ( the message content is emphasised by repeating it in the other code ) , message qualification ( the main content of the message is " qualified " or adjusted by a clause in the other code ) , personalisation versus objectivisation . |
| 23 | I was also excited at the prospect of earning some reward , and I could n't sleep that night for thinking about visiting her in the morning . |
| 24 | Such specimens as we collect are obtained without bothering him in the slightest — smears for chromosome checks , the occasional blood sample , and so on , that 's all . |
| 25 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |