Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churchill , the First Sea Lord and England 's hero , could only describe it in the House on October 17 as ‘ a remarkable exploit of skill and daring ’ . |
| 2 | Yet I can only picture her in the posture of Candice Riberon in Le Métro lying on her back , her face caught in an agony of uncertain provenance . |
| 3 | If I have to lose it , I 'll only do it in the ring . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 5 | Shadows enable light to manifest itself and give it objective reality , just as wisdom can only manifest itself in the face of ignorance . |
| 6 | If you feel very strongly that the background to the Unit 's formation needs to be set out , I could perhaps draft it in the form of an ( again brief ) annexe . |
| 7 | The records management staff could no longer only involve themselves in the review of paper records they should also safeguard electronic records from inappropriate destruction . |
| 8 | We learned a great deal from those matches and this can only help us in the future , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Yeah , but they were all like that , they 'd all stab you in the back . |
| 10 | Anyway , I went into it to basically find who in the fuck I was , and what it comes down to is having a wank every five minutes of every day . |
| 11 | Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes . |
| 12 | do you not want me in the house . |
| 13 | We do not want it in the dictionary . |
| 14 | But surely you can just defrost it in the microwave ? |
| 15 | You will not respect yourself in the morning . |
| 16 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 17 | ‘ And I shall tell you , my Lord Coroner , how Edmund Brampton , steward to Sir Thomas Springall , did not hang himself in the garret of that house in Cheapside ! ’ |
| 18 | Referring to the burden which subsidies placed on the state budget , Ben Ali said that " we can no longer do nothing in the face of the growth of the compensation costs , which alone absorb one-quarter of state expenditure " . |
| 19 | He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing . |
| 20 | She had better not invest it in the stock market , because she could n't afford to lose a penny and there was no such thing as a safe share . |
| 21 | Take it step by step , but do not jab her in the mouth and be FAIR but FIRM . |
| 22 | You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs . |
| 23 | I believe this to be true in the case of computers where they do lag behind the West : I do not believe it in the case of radar . |
| 24 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 25 | The fact that the Superintendent could not look her in the eye was not lost on Kate . |
| 26 | A twenty-foot wing-span model powered by a steam engine of Henson origin , but much improved by Stringfellow , was tested in 1845 but could not sustain itself in the air . |
| 27 | Yeah , yeah so they wo n't , not , well they wo n't get so dirty , again with these you can just stick them in the wash |
| 28 | I 'll just stick it in the freezer and he can have it next week . |
| 29 | But any rational analysis of the outcome of the Democratic primaries makes it clear that Jackson 's racial identity did not and could not defeat him in the voting booth . |
| 30 | It is good mining practice that if one is to work all the mine that has already been developed — and £60 billion has been spent in its development — one does not work it in the advance , but in the retreat . |