Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't have to gather them together in a group in order for that to be a successful piece of creative activity . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't want to meet them again in a hurry . |
| 3 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 4 | As the young owls had fledged , he said that we might expect to find them anywhere in the area , and that the best idea was for us to fan out and scan the branches . |
| 5 | When he stood in the middle of the road waving his arms it was only because he was hungry and wanted his dinner , now you 'll have to trundle him about in a wheelbarrow like a dead sheep , you 'll have no time for skirmishing . |
| 6 | The length of these umbilicals means that , in most cases , the tender can not tend the diver in the true sense , and may not be able to pull him back in an emergency . |
| 7 | So have to hide it up in the wardrobe . |
| 8 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 9 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 10 | When any aircrew came raging in to inform us that our optimistic prediction of clear , moonlit skies and baby cumulus had in fact turned out to be 10/10ths stratus on the deck , we were able to wave them airily in the direction of Messrs Coutts , Stark and Coleman and say , ‘ You 'll have to talk to them ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 12 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 13 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |
| 14 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 15 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 16 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 17 | Ask Mr Brown about Proposition 13 , the 1978 ballot initiative that crippled local government , and he will say that it should be reformed ; but he has hardly been spotted on the barricades shouting that cause , let alone trying to tackle it directly in the legislature . |
| 18 | The aim was to separate the individual membership section of the Party from the unions and to set it up in a relationship reminiscent of that with the ILP before 1932 . |
| 19 | ‘ Forget all this romantic stuff about tossing it up , batsmen careering down the pitch to slog it up in the air , and even slipping in the occasional chinaman . |
| 20 | They provided my family and I with currency exchange at competitive rates , advice on aeroplane repairs , free landing and hangarage , free overnight accommodation — and even organised on-the-spot Customs clearance when a friend came to pick us up in a twin the following morning . |
| 21 | Can you trust your skill as a handyman to see you through in an emergency ? |
| 22 | Reply : Two days later , Fishburn responded : ‘ Yes , I would be very happy to see you here in the House of Commons . |
| 23 | This was a slow process , for Tom had to keep stopping to explain what the words meant , and several times had to look them up in a dictionary . |
| 24 | A{ declaration } is defined in BNF as : Using the " translate and test " instruction , show how a program could be written to check any character string against this definition , and extract the{ ident } s in order to look them up in a dictionary . |
| 25 | Emily had been able to look them straight in the eye even then and say that Nan would cause no trouble . |
| 26 | His head had been propped against a rock which had attracted the lightning of a sudden thunderstorm : the bolt had hit the rock straight on and rolled down the rock — so they all swore — to stab him fatally in the neck . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't tell you that , Folly , ’ he said at last , raising his head again to look her squarely in the eye . |
| 28 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 29 | She pulled herself together , swallowing hard , and forced herself to look him straight in the face . |
| 30 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |