Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had some discussion at somewhere , that we decided that erm to include them in the divisional training , Yeah . |
| 2 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 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 . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If the adventurers stop to negotiate , Juliane explains that she and Maximilian have come to the Castle to find something in the Great Tower . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 14 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 15 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 16 | He smiled and opened it , surprised to find it in the original Mandarin . |
| 17 | ‘ The common denominator in all these children is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life ’ . |
| 18 | These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential . |
| 19 | It is very encouraging to know that so many institutions are keen to establish themselves in the important area of advanced IT training and that a significant contribution to costs came from industry . |
| 20 | However for pathogens to establish themselves in the human body they must be in the right place , in sufficient numbers and be sufficiently . |
| 21 | I did n't go into the parents ' room but went on beyond it to find myself in the rear part of the carriage , at the very end of the train . |
| 22 | Women use pieces of attire … to reinscribe themselves in the patriarchal system … . |
| 23 | ‘ For stealing household goods and trying to sell them in the surrounding villages . ’ |
| 24 | As a lover , he had bored her , but she liked the idea of his having to steel himself to visit her in the filthy venue she had chosen for their affair . |
| 25 | Orders were sent to no fewer than four squadrons to try to engage him in the Irish Sea or , as a last resort , to intercept him off Brest on his way home ; but in the event none of them was needed for he was caught , almost by chance , near Kinsale on the southern coast of Ireland at daybreak on 29 February 1760 , by three frigates which had taken refuge there during the recent storm . |
| 26 | Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job . |
| 27 | By the end of the reign it was already falling off , and while Henry VI had much noble support for his coronation expedition in 1430–1 , those who continued to serve him in the French war in the years to come constituted a relatively small group of men . |
| 28 | This is the time to know how fear works and to tackle it in the right way . |
| 29 | Somebody purchases alcohol from an off-licence and proceeds to drink it in the open air , usually in a secluded place called a ‘ bushing spot ’ . |
| 30 | What had happened to destroy so utterly the Paradise Restored of Thomas Baskerville , the neat town of Celia Fiennes , the exquisite spot of Charles Deering , to destroy it in the short space of three generations ? |