Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | May I associate my right hon. and hon. Friends with the tribute paid by the Prime Minister to Her Majesty the Queen , and may I join in the other congratulations already expressed ? |
| 4 | Can I go in the rolling mills ? |
| 5 | As for yours truly , yes , there is someone who I met quite recently , who probably needs me no more than I need her , someone who brings out my poetic streak , and makes me believe in the little people . ’ |
| 6 | Now erm did you stay in the same school or ? |
| 7 | How do you think in the next year or two Oxford university will develop it 's ways of dealing with this ? |
| 8 | Liv in the Do you know in the actual flats where you 're living here ? |
| 9 | But there are many more , of course , and listing playwrights is useful only insofar as it presents a few guidelines , primarily to help you look in the right places . |
| 10 | Who do you follow in the Premier League ? |
| 11 | ‘ What kind of parachutes did you use in the British Army ? ’ |
| 12 | Can she measure in the appropriate units ? |
| 13 | ‘ Is that the chap who was helping you move in the other day ? ’ |
| 14 | Huge panoramic windows and large observation decks let you take in the passing scenery , whilst the attentive crew are always ready to sort out a drink or a snack . |
| 15 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 16 | Miss Bruce 's distaste for innovation made itself manifest in the dreary proposals served up to the Conservative and Labour governments in the seventies — whenever a request for names for public duties arrived in her in-tray , the same roll-call of has-beens fell out of her out-tray . |
| 17 | Then I went down to my dressing room and there was this big , long note that somebody had written and stuck on my dresser , saying , ‘ How dare you bask in the reflected glory of others ’ and stuff like that . |
| 18 | May you rot in the foulest mosh-pit of Neds . |
| 19 | Can you recall in the past years the keepers ever receiving beer or whisky allowance . |
| 20 | Which digit should you put in the hundreds column ? |
| 21 | The great public buildings were stuccoed with gypsum to make them dazzle in the bright sea-light . |
| 22 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |
| 23 | So anyway I said , oh well get some change and I was on the point of sa I said to Margaret shall we jump in the ruddy car and we 'll get back . |
| 24 | A roundtable discussion on the question ‘ What type of information do we need in the Middle East ? ’ dealt , among other things , with attitudes to information in the region , in view of the perception that information means power , and that access to it should therefore be restricted . |
| 25 | How many times do we advertise in the bridal magazine ? |
| 26 | Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices . |
| 27 | Once , however , Master threw the stick and Sergeant went to retrieve it , and the dog heard something rustle in the long reeds that grew beside the canal . |
| 28 | In this regard it is interesting to hear him comment in The Favourite Game that ‘ deprivation is the mother of poetry . ’ |
| 29 | He was , he was , th they they took him , they chained him up , and they let him loose in the local cemetery , and left him there . |
| 30 | Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ? |