Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the kick off , Arse canter upfield , Merson or someone puts in a cross from the right which Arse players in the box ignore but which Jon Newsome guides home past Lukic . |
| 2 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 3 | In the biography of every individual he or she begins in a state of infantile dependence which ‘ is characterised by a persistence of both primary identification ( the emotional state of the infant in the womb ) and the oral incorporative or ‘ taking in ’ attitudes ( contributed by breast feeding ) as the infant 's chief means of object-relationships after birth ’ ( Guntrip , 1961 ) . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Never a week goes by but you get something you have never faced before , or something comes in a fashion you have not seen before , so there are plenty of challenges . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Not only can we match any skin , from lightest to darkest , ’ he says , ‘ but we can give any woman the exact combination of texture , weight and coverage that she wants in a foundation or powder . |
| 6 | The questions that one asks in a survey must be derived from the object of the research itself : the schedule is only a tool for obtaining information . |
| 7 | Some people believe that it helps in a night consultation to see a doctor you recognise . |
| 8 | To be worth singling out for special attention , a semantic relation needs to be at least systematic , in the sense that it recurs in a number of pairs or sets of related lexical units ( it will be recalled that the expression lexical unit is used to refer to a lexical form together with a single distinguished sense ) . |
| 9 | Melt the remaining 3 oz. of clarified butter and pour it , tepid , over the tongue paste , so that it sets in a sealing layer about one eighth of an inch thick . |
| 10 | May I suggest that he apologises in a broadcast from No. 10 Downing street , which I understand he occupies temporarily , and that he should give some thought — |
| 11 | ‘ I reckon I 've got more in this pocket than he gets in a month . ’ |
| 12 | Sweeney has no sooner stood up and shaved than he appears in a vision of reversion taking the form of the second parenthesis , the importance of whose material strains against the parenthetical format , guiding our reading of the poem : |
| 13 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 14 | I think that what happens in a place like erm Kingston , or a place like Lewes from my observation is that the general aspirations , the pretensions , change . |
| 15 | It must be stressed , however , that this is what can be achieved by effort , innovation and good management in production , rather than what happens in a laissez-faire atmosphere . |
| 16 | We learn with them that he designs furniture ( as Harry Hoffman did ) and she works in a gallery of primitive art on Madison Avenue , but only in the end do they reveal their names to each other . |
| 17 | If she works in a shop or office , she could take samples of her work to show her colleagues or she could offer to make a garment for a friend for just the price of the yarn . |
| 18 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 19 | My old man 's a dustman he wears a dustman 's hat he wars cor blimey trousers and he lives in a council flat . |
| 20 | And he lives in a house on Suez Street , |
| 21 | The friend is called Bobby and he lives in a slum near the city centre . |
| 22 | and he lives in a chateaux in France . |
| 23 | And he adds in a magazine interview that appears today : ‘ Everyone has deserted her . ’ |
| 24 | In Lewis , machair is a small percentage of the total area and it occurs in a variety of forms ; small bayhead units , larger east coast elements north of Stornoway , complex beaches and strands in the southwest at Uig and semi-continuous expanses between Barvas and Ness on the northwest coast . |
| 25 | It breathes like the millipedes by means of tracheae and it reproduces in a manner reminiscent of those early land invertebrates , the scorpions . |
| 26 | It 's chip resistant , it 's easy to apply and it comes in a choice of twelve brilliant shades . |
| 27 | Makes it and it makes in a way so that it , it 's not a |
| 28 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 29 | If you have a weapon , kill it quickly , else you must punch and kick it until it vanishes in a puff of smoke . |
| 30 | It takes at least an hour to get the system clear and dry again , and is a very frustrating problem , particularly if it occurs in a competition . |