Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper . |
| 2 | Solly was prepared to try it in the days when Napes Needles was still ‘ a rattling good ‘ un ’ and you took photos of your mates with plates in a Thornton-Pickard Folding ruby camera . |
| 3 | Patients who have had previous experience of hypnotherapy ( even if no regression was involved ) are more likely to have confidence in the technique and in its safety , and therefore are often more willing to put themselves in the hands of the therapist and trust their own subconscious . |
| 4 | For there was little to differentiate them in the policies which they espoused during the campaign . |
| 5 | While the underclass is composed of both black and white workers , black workers , in Elizabeth Burney 's phrase , act as a barium meal in an X-ray — highlighting the weak points — or , for our purposes , the fate of the most disadvantaged , those most likely to find themselves in the ranks of the underclass . |
| 6 | Norris may well be right that Derrida deserves such attention , but he is not often likely to receive it in the conditions of actual pedagogy , or in the random public exchanges of higher cultural life , which put a premium on the simplifying and the reductive . |
| 7 | We 've got certain rules that say all children must sit certain exams at certain times , it has n't been possible to do it in the labs |
| 8 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
| 9 | It is sometimes useful to put oneself in the shoes of another person . |
| 10 | Hereford beef is best and now the consumer will be able to identify it in the shops . |
| 11 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 12 | Defoe , who travelled more of the roads of the country than most of his contemporaries , was inclined to see himself in the foothills of a better transport age — the equal of the fabled Roman achievement . |
| 13 | He was very surprised to see her in the gents and asked ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ to which she replied ‘ PASS ’ . |