Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [indef pn] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’ |
| 2 | I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office . |
| 3 | UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots … |
| 4 | And you 'll find it 's so much easier to try everything in the comfort of your own home . |
| 5 | I 'm afraid to put one in the kitchen |
| 6 | In some cultures , scribes do not record texts with word-for-word fidelity , while in others one is not free to alter anything in the process of re-recording . |
| 7 | Each of these secondary attacks should be treated as having WS 25 and S 3 ; it is impossible to destroy everything in the room which is capable of delivering these attacks , and the only way to stop them is to destroy the clock . |
| 8 | It is not easy to imagine anything in the behaviour of natural flowers for which evolution could conceivably have needed to program bees to anticipate regular changes in distance . |
| 9 | He ordered a second bottle ; ‘ It 's almost impossible to prove anything in the spying world . |
| 10 | An entry can be made by any part of the accused 's body or by an instrument held by the accused to intimidate someone in the building or to remove goods from the building . |
| 11 | In order to reassure the House and the public , perhaps the Minister can explain what is the procedure when a police officer uses the powers given in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to stop someone in the street or someone driving a car . |
| 12 | Michael O'Reilly , parish priest of the hosting church , Our Lady of Good Counsel , added , ‘ I have been doing directed retreats for about fifteen years — it was good to have one in the parish which could be shared with our Christian friends from the other churches in Seacroft . |
| 13 | I shall never be able to look anyone in the eye again . |
| 14 | On a large site pupils will not be able to cover everything in the time available , so pupils can be divided into groups and instructed to investigate different topics or features . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | It gets very tiring jutting your chin out , standing tall and being able to lick anyone in the house if you have nobody to do it to . |
| 17 | Erm , under number one erm , is the Chairman aware that the er current talk in Whitehall which has given out the contracts for er new secure accommodation units in various counties that the current talk in Whitehall is that because Leicestershire does n't know its own mind because of the recent votes over secure accommodation that it 's unlikely to get one in the present er round and is n't that a damning indictment erm of the Liberal and Labour parties in this county . |
| 18 | If it is possible to mention something in the programme it will allow other fans who perhaps have little contact with the club , to use this excellent free facility . |
| 19 | I found it tiring to have somebody in the house whom I knew was not really enjoying what she was doing . |
| 20 | But on the other side , it is not necessary to interview everyone in the club if the proper statistical sampling rules are obeyed and if proper tests of significance are applied to results obtained . |
| 21 | If you have one that does n't compact , you you 're best to have one in the middle cos it 's less likely to get pranged there is n't it ? |
| 22 | As it is , I 'm saving like mad to have something in the kitty when next rent day comes round . |