Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 2 | Remember that bit of bother I had in the Red Hart in Berkeley ? ’ he continued , ‘ the sailor went through the window . ’ |
| 3 | Scattered about was exactly the sort of clutter you found in the parish church : holy pictures of saints , missals , rosaries , little bottles of holy water . |
| 4 | How , then , can we go about defining our strategy in the hope of getting them to react in the right way — the way we want them to ? |
| 5 | ‘ The unit assures us that the decision to have frozen meals delivered to disabled and elderly people , instead of having them prepared in the person 's house by a home help , is not a money saving measure , ’ she said . |
| 6 | In hearing that word we recognise yet more astounding things that God does — like summoning us to share in the mystery of his own life . |
| 7 | This process of abstraction is intended to focus on those elements which are the most important in explaining what happens in the real world . |
| 8 | Chapter 4 will show that the courts do , or at least could , play a part in controlling the quality of management decision making by laying down and enforcing appropriate standards of care and skill , but requiring judges to determine whether managers have complied with what are essentially procedural decision-making criteria is quite different from asking them to participate in the decision-making process itself . |
| 9 | But he was overruled by the others ; one judge said ‘ you had better appoint them judges ; and then I will retire , because I see no use in having them to act in the same capacity in which we are acting ourselves ’ . |
| 10 | Alternatively , there would be great benefit in choosing someone working in the pupils ' locality e.g. a youth worker , a nurse , a pupil involved in the provision of a soup kitchen or the organisation of a pro-life cell . |
| 11 | An aptitude is demonstrated by success in learning which results in the acquisition of an ability . |
| 12 | The other terms , for example , are all the same in each market , so on averaging they occur in the same form as they do in an individual market . |
| 13 | Thomas Jackson may have found that his own baptism had not been recorded and so insisted on having it written in the margin twenty-two years later . |
| 14 | I think she 's going off it a bit so I said oh well I 'll come and have a chat and I said listen , I said , I realize you you 've got a lot of school work and that and you 've got your boyfriend , I said , but there is now way that you 're gon na let him stand in the field , getting fat and getting old you 've got |
| 15 | KEEP smiling and the slump wo n't beat you — that 's the message in our great £25,000 series of contests aimed at helping you laugh in the face of Lamont . |
| 16 | ‘ It might take a letter a week to get to Germany , might n't it ? ’ said Mrs Fanshawe , taking her rings off and amusing herself by making them flash in the sunlight right into Nurse Rose 's eyes . |