Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to come to see me in the prison . |
| 2 | The elderly lady found a private moment in which to invite her hostess to come to see her in the room she occupied in her daughter 's house . |
| 3 | Sometimes children like to list the names of the members of their family and in this way we can help them to count how many there are , and help them to remember to include themselves in the count ! |
| 4 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 5 | Gwenellen thought neither , as if Marcus tonight was anything like Marcus last night Old Red would be far too busy to remember meeting me in the subway . |
| 6 | By creating and maintaining institutions that deny feelings of warmth and tenderness , by encouraging male competitive and aggressive styles of human encounter , prisons are killing off in prisoners those qualities most likely to help re-establish them in the community . |
| 7 | Anwar would find him something else to do to get him in the grocery mood . |
| 8 | Comedian Ernie Wise , a next-door-neighbour , said : ‘ Poor old Frank does seem to keep shooting himself in the foot . |
| 9 | He does seem to keep shooting himself in the foot . ’ |
| 10 | Her mother had tried to force feed her in the past as her doctor had said that Maria had to gain some weight but Maria had only cried and refused to swallow the solid food . |
| 11 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |
| 12 | Then one day Kirsty met an old friend who happened to have consulted me in the past for regression therapy . |
| 13 | It was not a pleasant emotion , but it was a powerful enough one to have sustained him in the search when evidence was lacking . |
| 14 | I ought to have stopped you in the beginning — I ought to have walloped you good and hard instead of hiding the things and pretending I did n't know anything about it . |
| 15 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 16 | He did n't appear to have seen her in the water and Rachel had the advantage of watching him unobserved as he strolled along the poolside , a towel slung around his neck . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd have loved to have seen her in the flesh . |
| 18 | In that case , the party whom the clause favours ( usually the seller ) will not be found to have incorporated it in the contract unless either it was in a contractual document signed by the other party or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring it to the attention of the other party . |
| 19 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 20 | Anyway , with Eric on his way , I did n't think it would be a good idea to start another War only to have to abandon it in the middle of things and start dealing with the real world . |
| 21 | The only problem is that the first time you do it for each project if it 's a ne if it 's a an old project , then we are going to have to put something in the field which summarizes the total remit for the whole of the group to date . |
| 22 | To respect the environment and to seek to protect it in the course of company activities . |
| 23 | It is indeed a salutary ( and exceedingly difficult ) exercise to attempt to analyse them in the security of a solitary armchair . |
| 24 | find it had been better for them to have left their in the bank ! |
| 25 | How convenient of John Major to have put himself in the position of bringing the Maastricht issue to a head — and at the same time virtually assuring a no-confidence vote in the Government — on the day the sun and Saturn are in a tense 90-degree angle to each other . |
| 26 | Ramprakash looked to have established himself in the Test side with a series of fighting knocks against the West Indians in 1991 . |
| 27 | was going to say check it in the book but I gave you wrong one . |