Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone .
2 Nobody in particular , and I s I use the word him , nobody particularly wants to question him , nobody particularly wants to get him in a bad mood .
3 When she applies this to her test situations , however , she tends to interpret it in the narrow sense of explicitness rather than with reference to the higher orders of logic to which abstractness usually refers and which the general weight of her argument implies .
4 We have also made it clear that free tests will be available to anybody who wishes to have them in the hon. Gentleman 's local authority area .
5 Similarly , an element which has been mentioned before may be presented as new because it is unexpected or because the speaker wishes to present it in a contrastive light .
6 Somebody purchases alcohol from an off-licence and proceeds to drink it in the open air , usually in a secluded place called a ‘ bushing spot ’ .
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