Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |
| 2 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 3 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 4 | Freud seeks to use it in this book as if it were a purely biological concept , and furthermore , one which is found among all living organisms . |
| 5 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 6 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 7 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 8 | Although the thing is initially being tested under OS/2 2.0 and AIX , IBM plans to incorporate it in future operating systems and to do versions of the Distributed System Object Model for other systems — and the Taligent Inc joint venture with Apple Computer Inc also has licence to the technology . |
| 9 | One girl wanted to cover him in whipped cream and honey and then slowly lick off every bit . |
| 10 | Accordingly when Bishop Mauger attempted to visit them in 1202 , both parties , bishop and monks , believing in the rightness of their positions , appealed to the pope , and the abbey also appealed to the archbishop of Canterbury for tuition , or protection of this appeal , while matters were pending . |
| 11 | But the fact that it is protected by unwritten convention rather than by a legal constitution means that there is no external brake upon Parliament or the courts moving to restrict it in particular ways , as the mood of the times takes them . |
| 12 | I 've the head of the Board of Tourism coming to see me in five minutes . ’ |
| 13 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 14 | Without any preamble , except the customary offer of a cup of tea which I declined , the Inspector began to take me in painstaking detail through my account of my discovery of Froggy 's body . |
| 15 | Being a single mum is not very easy and it was important that there was lots of people to contact to encourage you in difficult times . |
| 16 | His employers offered to pay him in full until the 12-month period expired and the High Court granted them an injunction , preventing Mr Henderson from leaving prematurely . |
| 17 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 18 | Scaevola refuses to interpret it in this way . |
| 19 | And the mothers had to do it in those days , half a crown to do all the washing for this woman . |
| 20 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 21 | He began to unlace her bodice , and her hands attempted to stop him in vain . |
| 22 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |