Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You go to prison for something you 've done wrong , that 's your punishment , but they do n't need to humiliate you in the way they do . |
| 32 | She left her home last night as her owner tried to weigh her in the garden . |
| 33 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 34 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 35 | Do you like it straight out the fridge , well , I left it in the fridge , first of all , said oh get the , get the cheeses out , and I said , no I want to leave them in the fridge , I want those nice and cool . |
| 36 | She says when you want to do something in the city it 's much handier to go with your bike than with car . |
| 37 | Madonna has often talked of her Ten Year Plan , a route to megastardom designed to keep her in the manner to which she has quickly become accustomed for years to come too . |
| 38 | LABOUR & LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WANT TO KEEP YOU IN THE DARK ABOUT : |
| 39 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 40 | He had come to question her in the manner of someone who comes to peer at a freak in a sideshow . |
| 41 | Who in drunken rage tried to hang himself in the orchard . |
| 42 | ‘ I just want to bury them in the ground . |
| 43 | Are we presuming that those students will not be expected to pay anything in the charge that they pay for staying in the halls of residence ? |
| 44 | He then tried to toss him in the air . |
| 45 | If students in the 1990s have difficulty in distinguishing all the political parties and coalitions that sprang up in Petrograd after the February Revolution , how could a peasant in 1917 be expected to assimilate them in the place of the Tsar , who at least represented a more easily understood form of political authority ? |
| 46 | As an agriculturist he has to take him in the garden for practical training . |
| 47 | As the rebels , sword in hand , ran after the retreating cavalry , sonic of the royal infantry stood their ground and tried to take them in the flank but the heavy rain had left most of their cartridges too damp to fire and the frustrated musketeers thereupon also took to their heels . |
| 48 | Now she wants to join him in the ring at Moscow State Circus . |
| 49 | Right , well we 'll just need to stuff it in the bag then . |
| 50 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 51 | ‘ I want to achieve something in the game . |
| 52 | Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners . |
| 53 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 54 | Once again Abbot Bere came to greet us in the guest house , accompanied by a monk who had been absent at our earlier meeting . |
| 55 | Sometimes children like to list the names of the members of their family and in this way we can help them to count how many there are , and help them to remember to include themselves in the count ! |
| 56 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 57 | Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion . |
| 58 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 59 | " Why did you expect to find it in the laundry-basket ? " |
| 60 | One of the cats came to meet her in the wood and accompanied her back into the house . |