Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | We learned a great deal from those matches and this can only help us in the future , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Yeah , but they were all like that , they 'd all stab you in the back . |
| 8 | Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes . |
| 9 | do you not want me in the house . |
| 10 | We do not want it in the dictionary . |
| 11 | But surely you can just defrost it in the microwave ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Take it step by step , but do not jab her in the mouth and be FAIR but FIRM . |
| 15 | You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The fact that the Superintendent could not look her in the eye was not lost on Kate . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | I 'll just stick it in the freezer and he can have it next week . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses . |
| 23 | Why do n't you just keep him in the clinic ? ’ and shrugged her angry retort aside . |
| 24 | And you might just see me in the background of one of the shots . |
| 25 | I did n't think he 'd do that , because we 'd had problems before , because of the black and white thing , There 's a lot of people who will just stop you in the street . |
| 26 | England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn . |
| 27 | That way , when you bust your board , you do n't just toss it in the garbage . |
| 28 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
| 29 | Ooh better not leave him in the kitchen or the dogs 'll eat him |
| 30 | Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying . |