Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [noun] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise there 's going to be chaos there if they do n't stop now and look within themselves instead of all of this interfering in other countries which they 've done in the past . |
| 2 | To do this successfully , the soldier had to be ready : he had to train in military skills which he might be called upon to use . |
| 3 | It had not occurred to him that he was naked , but it did not matter in any case what she thought . |
| 4 | So in return we shall specify in more detail what we expect from you . |
| 5 | Certainly you are obliged in this game which you have undertaken to play against the reader ( while at the same time telling a good story ) to state the physical circumstances necessary to unmasking the murderer . |
| 6 | I forgot in that second what it was |
| 7 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 8 | As it is , there 's little to fault about FastLynx — it offers in one package what you might otherwise have to buy two packages to get , and is easy to use . |
| 9 | But it is a necessary price to pay , if we want students to emerge with minds of their own , who do not merely know but understand in some depth what they know , and who are able to form and develop their own ideas . |
| 10 | Not all of us have had those good experiences , but we can recapture in later life what we did not find in childhood . |
| 11 | They only ask in common humanity what they can do , and proceed to do it … |
| 12 | Suppose that he recently sold bonds short ( ie , promised to deliver in future bonds which he did not then own ) when prices were at their peak . |
| 13 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 14 | The interviewer takes each achievement in turn , starting with the earliest , and enquires in fine detail what it was interviewees did and how . |
| 15 | She discussed in this context who she saw as the twentieth century 's two most influential analysts of theatre : Brecht and Antonin Artaud . |
| 16 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 17 | What Charles said in major speeches which he put a great deal of time and thought into , seldom went farther than the four walls he spoke within . |
| 18 | Recessed ceiling lights ( eyeball spots and downlighters ) are fitted in circular holes which you cut out of the ceiling with a padsaw . |
| 19 | In my view what is needed is not abolition of the audit but a simplified format , less compliance reporting and an audit certificate which enables auditors to explain in greater detail what they have done and to spell out those areas they are not satisfied with , and why . |
| 20 | Fearing the latter ( although all missiles fired as of the end of January turned out to be conventionally armed ) , the population was advised to don gas masks , and to take refuge until the all-clear sounded in sealed rooms which they had been instructed to prepare on the top floor of their homes . |
| 21 | As they moved from one to another , they collected meals of pollen and paid for them by becoming covered in excess pollen which they involuntarily delivered to the next flower they visited . |
| 22 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 23 | She wondered in horrified fascination what they were going to do to her . |
| 24 | Some have even described in loving detail what they think the posterior in question might look like . |
| 25 | Thomas went out , came back a moment later with an object draped in blue velvet which he positioned carefully on a low table . |