Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , I mean , one way is for editors with similar jobs to get together and do a generic one erm but there 's only one editor amongst us so you have no-one together with unless you want to find somebody in another group , but I do n't think it 's going to really serve very much purpose . |
| 2 | It is not recommended to exercise her in this condition , because of the unwelcomed attention she will receive , and the risk of her becoming pregnant . |
| 3 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 4 | For although the particular details might vary , history was expected to repeat itself in each katun , and significant events would follow the pre-ordained general pattern . |
| 5 | Now somehow I want you to break out of that and to , as I say , shout it from the rooftops , because in the end , the public applause from that will protect you from those who might seek to neuter you in that role . |
| 6 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 7 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 8 | If they want to join us in this enterprise , so much the better . |
| 9 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 10 | You know you wrote that letter and it said oh , I hope to see you in half term and then , then said I hope not |
| 11 | Scaevola refuses to interpret it in this way . |
| 12 | It is perhaps somewhat strange , given the proven commercial success of the VT600 , that very little effort is made to market it in this country . |
| 13 | That the German audience is not deaf to beauty of tone production as some have been so foolish to pretend , is shown by the enormous enthusiasm with which Battistini is greeted when he sings in Germany , to say nothing of Caruso , although one hesitates to mention him in such proximity to so transcendent an artist as Battistini . ’ |
| 14 | Once the Chairman has signed the minutes no one is empowered to alter them in any way . |
| 15 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 16 | Now I do n't want to embarrass them in any way . |
| 17 | And we 've got to include him in some crime as soon as we can . |
| 18 | Erm , I seem to find myself in this committee in a minority of one . |
| 19 | Political influence is what the Other Side wants as much as anything and you 've got to meet it in that arena . |
| 20 | Hong Kong and Bangkok tend to be lumped together in holiday brochures under the same Far East tag , and indeed , it makes sense to visit both if you just happen to find yourself in that part of the world . |
| 21 | And on the other hand , the moment they , they 're going to stick masses and masses er o o of stands , the the these market trader pieces on it , and really I ca n't understand er why bother , if you 're going to destroy something in that sort of way ? |
| 22 | During the Cultural Revolution , for example , a woman could be severely beaten for attempting to adorn herself in any way and ‘ running after bourgeois ways ’ . |
| 23 | We talk later on , sort of thing when I say do nothing , you 're going to do something in that bit , but as far as you 're concerned it 's idle time . |
| 24 | Oh no , no , no , please , turn round I 'm going to do something in that slip . |
| 25 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 26 | This pseudo-cleft structure would signal that the first part ‘ we are attempting to draw something in this book ’ is given and the second part ‘ this something is a general picture ’ is new . |
| 27 | And you 've got to put them in that framework … |
| 28 | ‘ She 's going to harm me in some way , Leo . |
| 29 | I would now like to ask everyone in this room to stand with me , and raise their glasses . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , you 're not going to make it in that state and that 's for sure . |