Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick suddenly found himself standing in the hallway , his heart tripping frantically , his breathing too fast to be comfortable . |
| 2 | Time and again intelligence organisations chase after these grandiose projects only to find themselves lost in the wasteland of truth created by their own stupidity . |
| 3 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 4 | And er he apparently told her to sit in the car while he finished his |
| 5 | Use a sunscreen with a SPF greater than 10 from 6 months onwards , and then only let them stay in the sun for short periods . |
| 6 | But , as we shall see , it was not the Bolshevik position on the question which alone determined what happened in the Russian empire , nor is it clear that , in practice , the Bolsheviks had had any real alternative if the revolution was to be successful . |
| 7 | By so doing they colluded in the evils that they would have wished to remedy had they faced them fair and square . |
| 8 | I heard enough to learn I featured in the conversation . |
| 9 | How long do you sit in the sun on the first day of your holiday ? |
| 10 | Erm how long have you lived in the flats ? |
| 11 | Do not think you sleep in the hand of God you sleep in the mouthpiece of a telephone |
| 12 | Those who stress sisterhood rather than equality value a great deal in women 's distinctive approach as it now is ( and has been in societies much less egalitarian than ours ) and do not want it lost in the melting-pot of assimilation . |
| 13 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 14 | For government to pursue a regional policy either by offering incentives to industries to move into depressed areas or by not allowing them to expand in the affluent parts of the country is tantamount to impeding economic growth and wasting resources . |
| 15 | Not being able to fall asleep and not allowing oneself to move in the marital bed . |
| 16 | try as one might , one ca n't change the group , but , but clearly these are not th the examples that Freud chooses are really big groups where the kind of factors he 's talking about comes through very clearly because y y you can not explain what happens in the Catholic Church or an army . |
| 17 | I do not need anyone to rub in the truth that , yes , I too dwell heavily suspended above traffic snarl , pavement noises , an eel-and-pie shop , a tobacconist 's and a hardware store . |
| 18 | I soon found myself engrossed in the history of the valley ; tales and stories of the turbulent times of Border wars . |
| 19 | They coexisted with the now somewhat depleted Byzantine empire but soon found themselves embroiled in the Crusader invasion at the end of the eleventh century , in the course of which were to emerge Baibars the Mamluk and the celebrated Kurdish warrior known as Salahuddin al-Ayyubi or Saladin . |
| 20 | ( Of course since we do not know what happens in the jury room — and it is illegal to find out — the likelihood is that the jury will disregard the law and convict the accused of one offence or the other , hardly the best possible outcome . ) |
| 21 | An unsporting Stratford Herald critic , leaving Shakespeare country for a night out in Coventry , could not bring himself to join in the fun . |
| 22 | If you kick a child all his schooldays , force him to labour sixteen hours a day seven days a week , yank out his teeth with forceps when they ache , bleed him when he is ill , beat him throughout his apprenticeship , starve him when he falls on bad times , and finally let him die in the workhouse when he ages prematurely , then you have educated a man , in the best way possible , to be indifferent . |
| 23 | We are all ’ — he swung his hand comprehensively , to take in the audience , the studio staff , somehow implying he took in the watching millions too — ‘ we are all worried by what we have heard of your work . |
| 24 | She could not recognize , did not dare to recognize the grandiose ambitions whence her rage sprang ; it did not amuse her to sit in the Deux Magots , remembering that Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir had once sat there , nor did she wish to glimpse the exteriors of the houses of the famous dead . |
| 25 | ‘ Just watch him go in the 200 metres . |
| 26 | They could not keep it going in the quarter-final , though they gave Richard and Jonathon Lavelle , of The Berkshire , five shots and beat them 3 & 2 after blue skies gave way to one of the most vicious snow squalls I have seen on a golf course . |
| 27 | They do not see themselves included in the generic ‘ he ’ . |
| 28 | I know not to expect her to react in the way other dogs do , and she knows that I will look after her and she does n't have to be quite so independent . |
| 29 | The long , slow filtration process does not remove anything dissolved in the water . |
| 30 | His method makes tomatoes taste so startlingly unlike any other dish of cooked tomatoes that any restaurateur who put it on his menu would , in all probability , soon find it listed in the guide books as a regional speciality . |