Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman bent to kiss her in greeting . |
| 2 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 3 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 4 | After Hocazade 's appointment to the kazaskerlik some years later , his father and brothers came to visit him in Edirne . |
| 5 | ‘ We were a bit shocked when the fire brigade arrived to cover it in foam . ’ |
| 6 | The other type is the roll-all , which opens out to allow you to slot the rods and other items into small pockets stitched along the bottom with tape ties to hold them in place . |
| 7 | The latter point has been a cause of some concern because , in the 1980s , black kids continue to involve themselves in sport with a fervour which alarms many , fearful that blacks ' achievements can only reinforce traditional stereotyped images about blacks being adept at physical pursuits , but inept at intellectual ones . |
| 8 | She and Cati were born into the same family , went to the same school , heard the same sermons on Sundays and feast days , and often confessed to the same priest ; but Cati liked to cover herself in guilt , a kind of protective clothing that her elder sister had once inspected , tried on for size , and then discarded . |
| 9 | He loved books , but not the dusty lexicons of the law ; his mind longed to stretch itself in contemplation of other minds , in listening to brilliant talk , to lectures and debates . |
| 10 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 11 | HERE is another of Martica Heaner 's tips for home exercises to get you in shape . |
| 12 | Yeah , people could just switch off and then it Apple Macintosh erm I think with the Gillette decision was part of the Gillette seemed to reposition themselves in advertising |
| 13 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 14 | By 1933 , however , with unemployment rising and no solutions visible , public disapproval began to manifest itself in meetings , demonstrations , even strikes . |
| 15 | ‘ Heather went to see him in Oxford on the third of September . |
| 16 | Blacks continued to involve themselves in boxing after the war though it was not until 1970 that a black boxer emulated the Turpins in winning a British title : Jamaican-born Bunny Sterling became the first immigrant boxer ever to win a British title when he beat Mark Rowe at Wembley . |
| 17 | By now , a hundred people have lined up in front of him and a security guard begins to keep them in line . |
| 18 | I therefore am of opinion that a trading corporation may sue for a libel calculated to injure them in respect of their business , and may do so without any proof of damage general or special . |
| 19 | One depicts Mary 's first husband , Francis II , three times rushing to welcome her in heaven , and three times finding that he can only embrace a headless body , so that he curses his people ; whereupon the poet exhorts them to forget their own troubles , and unite to destroy England and send its queen to a dreadful death . |
| 20 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 21 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 22 | MAY 1993 During the Khmelnitski exchange visit to Hunterston great interest was shown in TOP and the Director and Deputy Director of Khmelnitski NPP sat in on a team meeting to see it in action . |
| 23 | So was examiner Silk going to throw himself in front of the roller for the statutory emergency stop ? |
| 24 | Yet other varieties happen to find themselves in possession of new tricks : they turn out to be even better self-replicators than their predecessors and contemporaries . |
| 25 | Rebecca , more unusually , was an LBT — a Loud Blowsy Tart , normally an evening job guaranteed to embarrass you in front of your wife and friends at a night out at the theatre or similar . |
| 26 | 10K TRAINING SCHEDULES Here are specific training schedules designed to get you in shape for a great 10K race performance . |
| 27 | Sometimes Papert 's writings and his enthusiasm for changing the structure of education seem to place him in affinity with such educational radicals as Ivan Illich and Everett Reimer , but this is misleading . |
| 28 | In the first months of Whitelaw rule , strong-arm cliques began to assert themselves in Belfast . |
| 29 | She walked in and around the corner , and her heart leapt to see someone in Carolyn 's bed . |
| 30 | Work was carried on around the lump in a fairly ordered pattern helping to keep everything in proportion . |