Example sentences of "[noun] [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 Does the photographer specialise in the area in which you need to commission photography " ? |
| 2 | He seemed arrested by her laughter , she saw , as she watched his glance go from the merriment in her eyes to her laughing mouth . |
| 3 | The ceremony began , and soon I heard the priest come to the point in the wedding where he had to ask , ‘ Is there any reason why these two people should not be married ? ’ |
| 4 | Similarly We , Us , Our can refer to the protagonists in the poems but it can also describe the opinions or reactions of mankind at large ( 59 , 60 , 116 , 118 ) . |
| 5 | She and the island have become one ; its hopes come to her in the wind bending the palm fronds on the beach , making the halyards sing against the masts in the bay , in the tree frogs ' piping , the rattle of the fleshy leaves of the saman . |
| 6 | Encouraging a relaxed atmosphere , provision of toys , and letting the child sit on the potty in the middle of family activities can help establish positive attitudes to toileting . |
| 7 | Neighbours who were unwary enough to let the Misses Lovelock look after the chickens in their absence rarely found any eggs awaiting them on their return , and in some cases a plump chicken had died . |
| 8 | How can a spaceship travel across the Galaxy in no time at all ? |
| 9 | The student should stand with his feet apart and gradually let each foot slide across the floor in opposite directions . |
| 10 | I knew I was n't the only victim because I had heard complaints from others ; the fruiterer who saw his apples disappear from the box in front of the shop , the grocer who unwillingly supplied him with free biscuits . |
| 11 | Will my hon. Friend look at the matter in light of the present strained position in the jobs market ? |
| 12 | Juliet cooked them both a meal for which she had no appetite , and watched her father leave for the hospital in his blue Cavalier . |
| 13 | What did God say to the man in the Parable of the Rich Man with the Barns ? |
| 14 | You must learn to ask for a deposit when you take an order and never , never let a garment go without the balance in your hand . |
| 15 | One of the more common Manhattan experiences of the early 1980s involved being approached by well-dressed individuals and asked to sign a petition helping the NAP get on the ballot in the name of democracy , and then being hit for a contribution . |
| 16 | Did Marsilid act on the enzyme in the brain and protect a transmitter amine from premature destruction ? |
| 17 | Also , the process of pre-censorship by what Thorold Dickinson called ‘ ex-colonels and maiden aunts in long flowered frocks ’ made filmmakers complicit with the censors in keeping everything a touch daring , challenging or controversial from the screen . |
| 18 | We 'll have reports live from the counts in Cheltenham and Swindon , plus reports from other key councils . |
| 19 | If honourable members would in fact stick to the debate in that particular way and in fact er er it would be of great advantage of the house it is a short debate er and and going off the the main scope of the debate in fact leaves less time for other people to speak . |
| 20 | In early April 1946 U Sein Ywet and I did a seven-days tour in the Delta in which we visited two towns and ten villages , listening to government officers , elders , headmen , and representatives from nearly a hundred villages , which convinced me that much more needed to be done for the towns and villages outside Rangoon . |
| 21 | At this moment they heard their mother turn off the radio in the other room . |