Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It barely represented the true drama of the moment , though Nicholson was better informed than most on the subject because apart from being a friend of Polanski , he gleaned first-hand accounts by attending the trial of Manson and his disciples , whose story proved to be more gruesome than even Hollywood could either manufacture or exploit in a movie . |
| 2 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |
| 3 | An important fault in Freud 's work at this point is the failure to allow for a difference in the content of the ideas which leaders may espouse and develop in a group . |
| 4 | That is to say , the variation is not necessarily patterned in one single linguistic dimension ( for example , it does not necessarily move in a single phonetic direction : it may diverge in two or more directions ) , nor does it necessarily display a unilinear or unidirectional pattern in terms of any independent ‘ social ’ variable : on the contrary , the patterns shown in relation to different social variables may conflict and interact in a variety of ways . |
| 5 | This age-based inequality in our society is most marked in the years of youth and early adulthood : thus , in British law , 16 is the age of consent , 18 is the age at which one can vote and drink in a pub , and so on . |
| 6 | the rise of the Country Dancing Clubs was maybe be to kind of try and compensate in a way for the dances themselves going down , ordinary dances , folk were wanting to do the Scottish dancing and things ? |
| 7 | These body-builder types , particularly , can preen and pout in a manner which some ladies might find rather suggestive , only to have their hopes dashed when the guy starts telling anecdotes about his boyfriend 's expertise in the sack . |
| 8 | Elitism has to mean more than this — even in its modern , broader sense — for it to be of analytical use , so modern elite theory has tended to argue for a plurality of elites which may interact or compete in a variety of ways . |
| 9 | Now the scholars amongst you will quickly realise that staying in a hotel near Balquhidder would lend itself to terms of geographic convenience to tackling Ben More , Ben Vorlich or even Ben Lawers . |
| 10 | The possibility that the contents of the dialysis bag may change if suspended in a solution mimicking diarrhoeal stool water was also examined . |
| 11 | if Vicki was out or er at the side of Vicki when Vick when we had these she was ages before she 'd go and sit in a chair on her own |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll go and look in a boat . ’ |
| 13 | Do you think I should go and live in a commune in San Francisco ? |
| 14 | Liberal Democrats will neither support nor participate in a government which turns its back on reform . |
| 15 | Various suggestions were made , and the final plan was that Patsy , her husband and their two little boys should come and stay in a hotel in our village for the weekend . |
| 16 | I 'll come and put in a couple of hours , so you can get a bit more comfortable . ’ |
| 17 | Some might say that sending in a college principal to validation events in order to advise on SCOTVEC policies is carrying things a bit too far . |
| 18 | can lie and squirm in a sewer . |