Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 2 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 3 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 4 | And now they 've changed their mind and want to put me in a caravan . |
| 5 | said you want to put 'em in a bag and shake 'em up . |
| 6 | Mr Roberts said when the men were arrested , Angela Wolfe , 18 , of Thompson Street West , Darlington , Drummond 's girlfriend took £14,267 to Newcastle where she tried to put it in a safety deposit box . |
| 7 | Start a hobby Contact your local adult education centre if you want to do it in a group |
| 8 | There is indeed quite an amount of contemporary music which seems designed to keep us in a state of perpetual shock . |
| 9 | A yellow child tried to interest her in a jar of dead flies . |
| 10 | ROBERT HOPKINS , a young Queensland aborigine , tried to hang himself in a prison cell using a blanket torn into strips . |
| 11 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 12 | Only cos he wants to have you in a bath . |
| 13 | Lord Dundas was fully aware of Glassford 's importance to his political interest in Clackmannan , and had taken steps to try to oblige him in a matter relating to his West Indian business interests , but Glassford was also conscious of his position in the political sphere , and fully intended to use it to secure his brother-in-law 's reinstatement . |
| 14 | All the eligible mature men were married already , and it would not be fitting to contract her in a match where she was not the senior wife . |
| 15 | He had been carried along by his wife 's extraordinary power of making decisions , from the time when she had walked into the offices of Glebe and Pargeter , when his old father was alive , and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house . |
| 16 | ‘ We would expect to see him in a couple of warm-up fights , certainly someone in the top 10 , before he fights Mike Tyson again , if that is to happen , ’ said Morris . |
| 17 | One week later Captain Taylor came to fetch me in a jeep . |
| 18 | As for the mentioned activity , an attempt must be made to understand it in a way consonant with what has been said of contents and objects , that they are not states of affairs or ordinary things , and also with a further fact , that there are various modes of consciousness . |
| 19 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 20 | This is your day and we will endeavour to organise it in a way that reflects your needs and requirements . |
| 21 | You intend to pile them in a wall which will , |
| 22 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 23 | ‘ I have always gone to see her at Kensington Palace — well , I was n't going to see her in a railway siding , was I ? |
| 24 | ‘ So , when I happened to see you in a clinch in your office , you 're telling me she 'd lost her balance ? ’ |
| 25 | If elderly people are persuaded to uproot themselves in a hurry at the first sign of trouble , making major decisions at a time when they are not emotionally stable enough to think them through , like selling their homes and moving away from old friends and familiar surroundings into the different world and routine of a younger household , they sometimes regret it , and much unhappiness ensues for everyone . |
| 26 | He also said that he found his responsibilities ‘ a very great strain ’ , because his aunt was such a difficult , domineering person , and he would like to see her in a Home — partly because she needed more care and more company . |
| 27 | you 're got to stand it in a dish in water . |
| 28 | You 've got to prick your eggs and you 've got to stand it in a dish of water . . |
| 29 | I truly feel that somebody 's going to pinch me in a minute and I 'm going to wake up . |
| 30 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |