Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll put a coin or a note in a charity box : he uses money to salve his conscience : the very money that causes in its plenty the rich man 's grief , in its absence the poor man 's woe : it is the symbol of our failure , not our success . |
| 2 | The bird must also know in which direction the echo-producing obstacle lies . |
| 3 | Returning to Falmouth Street in his new acquisition — and already encountering some resistance to engaging first gear — Harry listed in his mind the excellent reasons for buying a car . |
| 4 | Most Christians , if asked about their faith , would include in their explanation the simple joy and happiness that faith has given to them . |
| 5 | When one person has in their mind the whole range of the project from initial conception through data analysis and system design to sitting at the computer and typing the program lines into the computer , it 's not only more efficient : the person is creating in freedom like an artist and is involved in the act of creation at a deeper level and as a result enjoys the whole thing . |
| 6 | Hurrying under cover of darkness up to Roscarrock Hall where a real priest was visiting from Ireland or Spain , they whispered their confessions to him , received absolution from him and knelt in the Roscarrock family chapel to hear a proper Latin Mass and to receive in their mouths the living sacrifice , the Body of Christ . |
| 7 | We will now see if it is possible to state in what circumstances the different tones are used within the very limited context of the words ‘ yes ’ and ‘ no ’ said in isolation . |
| 8 | As John Fairchild noted in his book The Fashionable Savages in 1965 : ‘ She looks best wearing what no one else would ever wear , something so simple another lady would n't dare … |
| 9 | We also confirm in our patients the previous observations made in normal subjects by Green et al , concerning the evolution of endocrine cell densities with age . |
| 10 | The general implications of this view of life are explained and elaborated in my book The Extended Phenotype , and I sha n't repeat the arguments here . |
| 11 | For a man so rooted in his domesticity the nomadic life of the Official War Artist was a gamble . |
| 12 | Numerous people ran into debt from being unable or unwilling to settle their credit card accounts at all or in full each month , and allowing their purchases to grow in price as every month passed , but the sums people in Britain owed in this way was a very small proportion of the total outstanding personal credit granted , which in 1987 Janet Ford reckoned in her book The Indebted Society was £30,000 million . |
| 13 | Consequently , pupils should keep in their files the necessary range and variety of types of writing , including where appropriate any rough notes , plans or early drafts . |
| 14 | 24–9– " The Session desires to record in their minutes the following resolution annent the Church question , viz. that they resolve unanimously to adhere to the union of 1900 . |
| 15 | Irina , who had been holding in her hand the red saucepan earlier referred to by Ludens , put it down and said , ‘ Oh . ’ |
| 16 | The date , and the exiled place of composition of its authors , suggests tellingly that the situation with which it attempts to deal is the phenomenon of fascism which seemed to have stopped in its tracks the long march of the progress of reason , and its liberating enlightenment ideals , of which Marxism was the fullest political development . |
| 17 | In September 1964 a special meeting of the corporation finance committee , which included all councillors , adopted an amended motion which gave the boundary extension subcommittee the power to include in its remit the progressive expansion of Derry , so as to maintain its position as the second city in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought we 'd said everything there was to say , ’ she said , seeing in her turn the anxious frown and the bleak look in his eyes . |
| 19 | Einstein has traced in his work the conservative influences of Ingegneri , a melodious master of Palestrinian polyphony , and Andrea Gabrieli , who excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and villanella , the Venetian gregesche and giustiniane . |
| 20 | Plants consume carbon dioxide , releasing the oxygen that we other species require , completing in our turn the full circle by ‘ burning ’ carbon and breathing out carbon dioxide . |
| 21 | There was an uncomfortable pause while they both thought of Pascoe in his enforced retirement , watching the river flow by his garden and reliving in his mind the wretched end to his career . |
| 22 | He used to sit in his study the whole time . |
| 23 | The object of the analysis is then to identify and explain in what circumstances the authoritarian direction of resources has advantage over market-type alternatives . |
| 24 | As Simone de Beauvoir argued in her book The Second Sex , man has constructed woman as ‘ the Other ’ , as the one who is not oneself . |
| 25 | I got in my bed the other night it were red hot , I thought ooh God I must n't put it on too early , you know ! |
| 26 | It means taking into account our current eating habits and including in our diet the necessary changes that are required to maintain a healthy lifestyle . |
| 27 | ‘ In that case , what was she doing in your room the other night ? ’ |
| 28 | It included in its preface the following statement : |
| 29 | With uncustomary generosity , he included in his letterpress the Aboriginal name for a species , when he knew it , alongside its Latin and common names . |
| 30 | In order to make the exercise of the privilege unnecessary in the present case Buckley J. included in his order the following paragraph : |