Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I visit my home city of Manchester , or travel to London , New Age-types seem to greet me in every other conversation . |
| 2 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 3 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 4 | We had some discussion at somewhere , that we decided that erm to include them in the divisional training , Yeah . |
| 5 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 6 | Yes I w I I would think so I mean it it wo n't occur in five minutes of course erm and I I would still say that I would like to see them in the six yard box more often . |
| 7 | They wanted to kill me in a horrific way , to frighten those who work in defence of human rights . |
| 8 | An intelligence , guided by a purpose , must be continually in action to bias the direction of the steps of change — to regulate their amount — to limit their divergence — and to continue them in a definite course … |
| 9 | Yet in Greek philosophy , it appears , these two senses of to be were not always very clearly distinguished from each other , and sometimes moreover there was a strong tendency to amalgamate them in a single concept . " |
| 10 | As we all of us want to escape ourselves and remain ourselves , want to leave ourselves behind and take ourselves with us , want the world transfigured and yet to remain ourselves in a transfigured world . |
| 11 | Kissing in this form , as a proper way to greet someone in a certain relation to oneself , is a social convention . |
| 12 | Maggie clung to the privacy of her room , as small children do to their teddy bears ; she never invited her friends there , preferring to contain them in the large sitting-room below . |
| 13 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
| 14 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 15 | Teaching materials usually provide very little in the way of explicit rationale which would enable teachers to modify them in a principled way with reference to the ideas which inform them . |
| 16 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
| 17 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 18 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 19 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 20 | He knows , though , that with first choice Bruce Grobbelaar approaching full fitness after his hamstring trouble and James eager to impose himself in the top flight , that Souness faces a difficult choice . |
| 21 | ‘ What I want now is to know who in the last month has been here to buy arsenic and belladonna ? |
| 22 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
| 23 | If the adventurers stop to negotiate , Juliane explains that she and Maximilian have come to the Castle to find something in the Great Tower . |
| 24 | That is why you have someone with a clapperboard at the start of each take : to make it possible to find everything in the whole length of film . |
| 25 | However , failing that , an international money order can be drawn in almost any currency — your bank will advise on how best to obtain one in the right denomination . |
| 26 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 27 | Once she allowed herself to stray away from the main concourse , lured by the strains of a string quartet , to find herself in a large square dominated by a giant plane tree . |
| 28 | Her smile , as she gazed into the camera , was wry and mocking , as though it amused her to find herself in the traditional pose of a mother . |
| 29 | Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore . |
| 30 | I settled for the party in Fulham on Bunny 's recommendation , arranging to meet him in a trendy pub in Covent Garden beforehand . |