Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mrs Cecil 's departure was preceded by such an entire sinking of her constitution and by an exhaustion tending so much to lethargy that she was seldom able to converse … and it was a peculiar favour to herself and daughters that Mr Simeon and her excellent son were in the house and watched for every reviving moment to pray or converse with her in all holy tenderness , till she ceased to breathe . ’ |
| 2 | He now feels that he will never be liked or respected by anyone in this school again . |
| 3 | Lovat ended that appeal by emphasising his belief that it was ‘ a most wise & prudent maxim that a man in power should do for those that he is pretty sure will stand & fall with him in all events ’ , and in general that was the major qualification for appointment to the judicial bench in eighteenth-century Scotland . |
| 4 | Or to look at it in another way , if all the defaulters in community charge payments were paying their due amount , perhaps these closures would not be necessary . |
| 5 | Feminist psychology 's theoretical neglect of power relations is also demonstrated in its tendency to ignore differences in age , ‘ race ’ , class and sexuality , or to deal with them in biological terms . |
| 6 | If you received a grant from Gulbenkian or worked with them in any way , then he would be grateful to hear from you . |
| 7 | ‘ My father specifically forbade us to communicate any of the information it contained to the authorities , or to cooperate with them in any way whatsoever . |
| 8 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 9 | In the end , after much hesitation — all Agnese 's stuff looked so expensive ! — Ronni selected a blue silk jersey dress the colour of her eyes that clung to her in all the right places and looked sensational , and a pair of matching blue sandals that , miraculously , fitted . |
| 10 | It includes the presence of other animals that may be predators or competitors for food , animals of other species that may communicate with it in finding food or raising an alarm , and individuals of its own species that interact with it in many ways , competitively , nepotistically , and in co-operation . |
| 11 | But it is easier to show that the Aquitanians ' identity as a people was imposed on them rather than felt by them in Carolingian times . |
| 12 | Eager to keep together , they tended to widen any track they used rather than tramp along it in single file . |
| 13 | Look for the textbooks that speak to you in clear terms . |
| 14 | The UGT , together with a smaller union , the Sindicato Libre Ferroviario ( SLF ) that merged with it in 1984 , was predominant only among ‘ movement ’ staff ( that is signalling and station staff handling the control and movement of trains ) , and among the scarcely unionized technical and managerial staff ( Encinas 1986 : 182 ) . |
| 15 | It started in the middle of something , something hollow and highly polished that fed into itself in ever-increasing rounds . |
| 16 | The arguments for nationalisation , the performance of nationalised industries and the disenchantment that developed with them in some quarters are studied . |
| 17 | The high street stores , and even the designers , are finding there is great value in maintaining , shapes , colours and styles that worked for them in previous seasons . |
| 18 | However , Pakistan have , in my opinion , paid for the Gatting/Rana affair and all that went with it in 1987 . |
| 19 | To tap that requires roots that probe deep between the particles of the soil and can absorb the film of water that clings to them in all except the most arid environments . |
| 20 | But it has more than paid for itself in improved factory efficiency , said Bob Pruitt , operations manager of Thatcher Tubes , Florence — part of Courtaulds Packaging . |
| 21 | ’ A greater awareness , a greater love of life , really , he seems to respond to people , to his environment and to the people that care for him in particular . |
| 22 | She embraced her sobbing daughter and clung to her in desperate shame . |
| 23 | There I found the author of Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick sipping mineral water , tapping a hand-drum and singing to himself in 17th-century verse . |
| 24 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 25 | Shock made her cry out , and he closed the door and moved towards her in quick strides , putting his hand across her mouth to stop-her scream . |
| 26 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 27 | To any casual observer it would have been a very comical sight A six foot one inch hulk of a man cavorting about and shouting at nothing in particular in a moonlit pool . |
| 28 | But there was no time to give this disturbing idea attention ; Tealtaoich was nearly at the Trees and the Trees were grouped together watching him and waiting for him in complete silence and it was important not to miss a single instant of any of it . |
| 29 | Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 . |
| 30 | Of all the nurses she had known only Minnie Robinson had remained loved and revered and even now , when she was old and pensioned off , Miss Arabel visited her faithfully and turned to her in complete trust for advice and comfort . |