Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Americans had not entirely despaired of better relations with Nasser , they looked to the US 6th Fleet to remind possible trouble-makers of the power which the United States could immediately bring to bear against them in a crisis . |
| 2 | Pleas for understanding began to pour from him in a stream . |
| 3 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 4 | She wanted to talk to him in a way she had never wanted to talk to anyone before , but he was next door , not here . |
| 5 | His pedipalps are brightly coloured and patterned and as soon as he sights a female , he begins to signal with them in a kind of manic semaphore . |
| 6 | He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him . |
| 7 | Time after time his lips swept over hers before his tongue slid inside her mouth to tangle with hers in a rhythm that sent a frenzy of red-hot sensation along her veins . |
| 8 | That does n't mean I 'd want my dad to read about it in a newspaper . ’ |
| 9 | Lucy contemplated her future , which seemed to stretch before her in a pattern of bleakness , especially where her social life was concerned . |
| 10 | Which brings us back to the beginning , and the need to recognise a horse 's emotions and to respond to them in a way which will not rouse the horse 's fear or anger . |
| 11 | These tools should enable all children , not only to gain access to the curriculum but also to allow and encourage them to respond to it in a way which clearly expresses their understanding . |
| 12 | The smell of burnt powder seemed to hang around him in a cloud . |
| 13 | When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment . |
| 14 | — Department store bosses trying to try on clothes in their fiddly little changing rooms ( you can always tell people who 've been clothes shopping they 're the ones with the bruised elbows ) ; — Town planners and architects who think steps are an interesting feature trying to get up them in a wheelchair , with a pram , or just with creaky old legs ; — Hospital consultants who make ten appointments for the same time waiting in out-patients , especially if it 's the day when there 's a dotty old lady , a whining child and an old man who coughs and spits all in the same little section ; — Weird fashion experts wearing their crazier outfits in Darlington on a rainy Monday . |
| 15 | Ken Clarke is an exceptional man to have with you in a battle . |
| 16 | I used to tease Shaun a bit and I used to ask for it in a way . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Now , we are asking you ’ — he stressed the word with some irony — ‘ we are asking you to join with us in a petition to the government for relief from the Act . |
| 18 | Well , well , I wonder what 's going to happen to me in a place like this … ’ |
| 19 | Less often , it 's her sleep that 's broken by a scream , and my turn to move across her in a sweat of protectiveness . |
| 20 | Relatives of Keith Pringle allege police refused their pleas to be allowed to speak to him in a bid to end the siege peacefully . |
| 21 | I 'm gon na to speak to you in a minute . |