Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When you 're through , sir , the CO would like to see you in the Orderly Tent . ’ |
| 2 | If the hon. Member for Leicester , South ( Mr. Marshall ) would like to accompany me in the new year , I should be only too happy to take him on a tour and show him just how much is happening outside Belfast as well as in it . |
| 3 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 5 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 6 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 8 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 9 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 11 | I do not intend to give the precise wording of a regression session on these pages because some readers might try to use it in the wrong way . |
| 12 | So they do have to put it in the individual enquiry ? |
| 13 | We shall often have to invoke them in the following chapters , though we shall rely all we can on originals . |
| 14 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 15 | They 'd have put her in the freak show , confessing how misled she was by capitalist gold . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't steal your money , you stupid bitch , you must have put it in the wrong apron . ’ |
| 17 | Third , Raven has signed it in a position that suggests ownership ( i.e ; on the back ) ; if he were claiming authorship he would surely have signed it in the bottom right-hand corner in the normal way . |
| 18 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 19 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 20 | I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land , wielding an axe against some giant tree . |