Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my job to bury her in the church . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 3 | Fortunately , the result of this test proved to be negative but , given the temperance of her lifestyle , her decision to take it in the first place would , at the very least , seem as bizarre as Mr Oliver Reed , the thirst , embarking upon an assertiveness training course . |
| 4 | Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken . |
| 5 | As to article 52 , the refusal to register as British fishing vessels boats owned , chartered , managed or operated by nationals of other member states , whether natural or legal persons , deprived those nationals of their right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom in order to pursue their fishing activities under the same conditions as nationals of the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | If the rumour is true that Ceauşescu recruited his future guards and secret policemen from among these abandoned souls , then their failure to save him in the crisis of his regime is hardly surprising . |
| 7 | She came last to Lachlan , and for the first time since he had startled her raised her head to look him in the face . |
| 8 | The local area , of course should be a springboard not a straitjacket , and pupils need to be encouraged to move out from their locality to see it in a wider context , to compare it with other places , and above all , whatever period is under study , to begin to understand why the changes they have documented took place . |
| 9 | Fortunately the city has long been protected by the sorcerous Shifting Isles but its ability to defend itself in the event of a serious invasion has long been in doubt . |
| 10 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 11 | She pestered her mother to enter her in the Imperial Ballet school , but two impatient years passed before she was old enough to audition , in 1891 . |
| 12 | Chatting to PC Coupland , an avuncular , agreeable man of 39 with the sort of handshake which suggests it would be unwise to give him occasion to put you in an armlock , was to realise that the rural bobby 's function remains essentially unchanging . |
| 13 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 14 | It was first spotted by Gary Walker at Wiiija Records — currently championing Huggy Bear and Cornershop and one of the ‘ 90s ’ most underestimated talent scouts — who flew to Belfast with the last of his money to sign them in the early days . |
| 15 | He smiled encouragingly , and Juliet was gratified by his attempt to include her in the conversation . |
| 16 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
| 17 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 18 | Breeders often release the owls too old , without giving them time to establish themselves in the release area . |
| 19 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 20 | Our squeamishness in the presence of our prey animals , our inability to look them in the eye , has condemned a large number of our pigs to nastiest existence imaginable . |
| 21 | It should be noted this is a Post Graduate course , and it is not our intention to include it in the main embalming course . |
| 22 | We get our chance to see it in the Ulster Hall on Wednesday 14th April . |
| 23 | ABOVE If you stop for a while , by all means allow your dog to join you in the front of the car . |
| 24 | Just as we have adopted an intuitive approach to the concept of set so we shall allow our intuition to guide us in the matter of whether or not an explanation is logically acceptable : to formalise the notion of acceptability would take us too far afield , into symbolic logic . |
| 25 | This is another classic example of our ability to shoot ourselves in the feet . |