Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 2 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 3 | The report showed that there were between 27,000,000 and 35,000,000 blind people in the world , over 90 per cent of whom lived in the developing world , mostly in rural areas . |
| 4 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 5 | Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths . |
| 6 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 7 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 8 | They might have them frozen in the frozen bit , frozen gateaux and stuff |
| 9 | Some of them appear in the above list , for a hard line can not be drawn . |
| 10 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 11 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 12 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 13 | Nothing moved in the entire length of Westmuir Street . |
| 14 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 15 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 16 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 17 | But I mean in the actual downstairs , in the living room |
| 18 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 19 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 20 | I mean in the neural network terms we just use a summation function . |
| 21 | As I argued in the previous chapter , boxing was the first sport in which institutional arrangements permitted a black presence : almost every weight division produced black boxers of such brilliance that they were virtually without equals ( see Henderson , 1949 , 1970 ; Maher , 1968 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I lived in the same house as him once . |
| 23 | ‘ I fought in the Holy Land for the Cross , and in England for Edward against the rebels ; I have founded monasteries , supported Holy Mother Church so God would exalt my family . |
| 24 | Meanwhile I sit in the spacious bar-restaurant , in this drool parlour , in this fancy vomitorium . |
| 25 | After breakfast , I sit in the outgoing waiting-room , facing the door , with Jackie and the women of yesterday morning clutching their knees and their overnight bags , looking pale . |
| 26 | I sit in the same seat as before , just by the window . |
| 27 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 28 | I never expected it to be easy , but I do sometimes wish for those moments that I experienced in the distant past , when the umpire used to say , ‘ game , set and match ’ , and you shook hands before entering the comparative safety of the changing room . |
| 29 | It certainly made an unusual change from cranberry sauce and was one of the most memorable tastes I experienced in the New World . |
| 30 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |