Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your whole intention seems to be to ruin me , simply in order to go on building your castles in the air . |
| 2 | I eventually found my parents in the sponsor 's tent in a huddle with Jack and his delightful wife , Jenny . |
| 3 | gingerly crosses his legs in the beam — a double-cross performed on screen . |
| 4 | All Mr Clinton 's talents will be required not merely to stroke his allies in the Capitol 's anterooms , but to keep the country focused on what he is aiming at . |
| 5 | Van Rensburg perhaps fancies his chances in the red and white . |
| 6 | Pembroke , who finished lame when last in the 2,000 Guineas , should better advertise his abilities in the Jersey Stakes . |
| 7 | T. O. Lloyd 's Empire to Welfare State only helps your inquiries in the broadest sense . |
| 8 | She suggests that the people studied by Ellis were mainly those who were merely powerful or influential enough to get their names in the Dictionary of National Biography , rather than necessarily being intellectually creative . |
| 9 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 10 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 11 | The ill feeling between him and the Woodvilles apparently had its roots in the previous reign and it is significant that even those chroniclers who emphasize the Gloucester/Woodville animosity , consider that it was the Hastings/Woodville feud which was worrying Edward IV on his death bed . |
| 12 | The ill feeling between him and the Woodvilles apparently had its roots in the previous reign and it is significant that even those chroniclers who emphasize the Gloucester/Woodville animosity , consider that it was the Hastings/Woodville feud which was worrying Edward IV on his death bed . |
| 13 | But it only sells its products in the UK because , Kazandjian says , each year it has worked to the limits of its capacity , and so ‘ never managed to expand ’ . |
| 14 | So think about it , do n't just throw your hands in the air . |
| 15 | ‘ We can not bury our heads in the sand and become competitive just by thinking that we are . |
| 16 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 17 | Erm I 'm not too sure whether Rozario may not have just caught his studs in the ground and tweaked a knee something like that . |
| 18 | With both teams having already secured their places in the knock-out stages of the competition , home advantage in the quarter-finals is at stake in Saturday 's clash . |
| 19 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 20 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 21 | Quietly , Connor crossed the room , opening the door cautiously so as not to waken his parents in the big bedroom at the other end of the landing . |
| 22 | Following several occasions on which wages had been cut and the working week extended , the NUAW finally called its members in the area out in what was recognized on both sides as a trial of strength of national importance . |
| 23 | We are just holding our thumbs in the hope that the machinery and fabric will last through the summer months . |
| 24 | Several children did not join their friends in the water but watched them from the balustrade along the main road . |
| 25 | The action of the Parliamentary Party was very embarrassing for the Labour Ministers , who of course could not join their colleagues in the opposition lobby ; but it did more than anything else in wartime to identify the Labour Party with the widespread popular desire for social reform in the post-war world . |
| 26 | We can not have their children in the hands of those unqualified to look after them . |
| 27 | why in due course , if proper use is made of native institutions , those races which are now subject should not take their places in the ranks of that group of allied nations , as they may I think rightly be called , which forms the [ self-governing ] British Empire … |
| 28 | Unix Systems Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper and his boss-in-waiting , Novell Inc chief Ray Noorda were in Japan last week explaining to Unix Labs 's Japanese shareholders the ins and outs of the deal that 's been cut : it is said that some companies , perhaps ICL Plc and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , were interested in somehow retaining their shares in the Unix firm . |
| 29 | We 're already dabbling our toes in the market , with the account customers like L — like Mr Hunter . |
| 30 | Because they do not have the sublime sensations of princes , they do not express their passions in the same dignified tone ; but that contrast , in itself , should make more truly pathetic the fate of their superiors . |