Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We 're going to do it in one move , ’ said the battalion commander Lt Col Alastair Duncan . |
2 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
3 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
4 | The theme of this EP , if the sleeve is owt to go by , is that aliens are going to put us in big test tubes full of pink bubbles . |
5 | The vision of the vain , silly girl she had been seemed to accuse her in some obscure way . |
6 | In the result , it was agreed between the Commissioners and the defendant that the amount charged upon him should be reduced , and that time should be given to pay it in three instalments ; he gave three promissory notes for the three instalments ; the first was duly honoured ; the others were not , and were the subject of the present action . |
7 | Weber 's approach to inequality was to present a range of descriptive categories that could be used to describe it in any given society . |
8 | Noel ran onto the platform and said : ‘ The last ex-Italian prime minister 's speech was so good I 'm going to repeat it in Maltese to make sure you do n't miss any of it . ’ |
9 | Now I want at least , to intro introduce the possibility in the series of diagrams I 'm going to show you in this lecture that we can relate it to the four stages of pathogenesis that we , we outline briefly er , in the last lecture . |
10 | Even taking into account the fact that you 're dead , really … ask yourself , if I asked you straight off — I 'm going to stuff you in this box now , would you rather be alive or dead ? |
11 | Were Spiritualists going to be forced to do it in strange , and possibly overexciting , positions ? |
12 | I 'd love to be forced to do it in strange positions . |
13 | His extreme distaste at being seen to touch her in public was utterly humiliating . |
14 | We have had remarkably good figures over the past year and we are determined to beat them in 1992 . |
15 | This whole issue about er children , junior church , other activities , children being compromised , adults finding it difficult to insist or persuade their children , that they should be in junior church , when other folks are trying to tempt them in other directions . |
16 | Once the Chairman has signed the minutes no one is empowered to alter them in any way . |
17 | It is perhaps somewhat strange , given the proven commercial success of the VT600 , that very little effort is made to market it in this country . |
18 | Indeed the business was said to have made ‘ the very best of progress ’ and its move to open systems is reckoned to stand it in good stead for the future . |
19 | Kant thinks , for example , that one who breaks a promise , because it is going to land him in personal difficulties to keep it , can not will that everyone would break their promises in these circumstances , for the situation in which no one kept promises which it turned out in the least difficult or vexatious to keep is an impossibility . |
20 | As I mentioned previously , my , my accountant said , drop this , because it 's going to put me in all sorts of problems with my taxation and things . |
21 | ‘ She 's going to harm me in some way , Leo . |
22 | So I write that down because that 's going to involve me in extra work at the end of the month . |
23 | I 've experienced more now , and it 's going to stand me in good stead . |
24 | I was taught to do it in first and use the accelerator . |
25 | There was also fear that he was going to punish her in some unpleasant way for Jason 's actions , and other , deeper fears that even now she refused to acknowledge . |
26 | From what Morse said it looks as though he was trying to flog it in some under-the-counter deal , but I do n't see how it helps us . ’ |
27 | One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her . |
28 | She looked right at O and Boy when she said this and it was as if she was trying to scare them in particular , even as if she was trying to frighten them away from each other , as if she was saying , to them , and to all of us , this is what you have to go through , right ? |
29 | He was determined to torment her in any way he could . |