Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] in the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business . |
| 2 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 3 | And why do we do it in the cruellest possible ways ? |
| 4 | Now you could do it in the nineteen seventies and er well yes I would say from nineteen sixty eight onwards with plastic card and revolv , what 's called revolving credit . |
| 5 | He would see her in the old holey woollies she wore to bed , rather than an old-fashioned nightshirt . |
| 6 | Do n't overdo it in the first few days . |
| 7 | If we slip up they 'll all join us in the wide blue yonder or whatever . |
| 8 | You can either write them in the built-in macro editor or turn on the Record function , which will record your keystrokes as you go along . |
| 9 | In other words , if you could n't get it in the next three months , you could forget about it ! |
| 10 | That would place him in the top 1/2 per cent of intelligence for this country . |
| 11 | I 'm an optimist : I think there 's a fifty-fifty chance that we will find them in the next twenty years . |
| 12 | Whenever she was not working in the house or on the vegetable patch , Endill would find her in the rickety old shed beside the wall he sometimes climbed to hunt for nests in the trees above . |
| 13 | And did n't he desert her in the same heartless way ? |
| 14 | If we could find a heightened sense of beauty in the world of a prison camp , I thought , surely we could find it in the great free world of which we dreamed ? |