Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [to-vb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The billhook had sliced into his naked thigh and , turning , she saw the great curve of red blood begin to bubble in the air , saw him slowly sink like a wounded animal , his hands plucking the air . |
| 2 | Mmm … only a few players Id like to see in the side to be honest . |
| 3 | ( Echoes of Evelyn Waugh 's Ishmaelite consul-general begin to flutter in the ear : ‘ As that great Negro , Karl Marx , has so nobly written … ‘ ) |
| 4 | Of those that did , only a tiny proportion happen to lie in the rocks that outcrop on the surface of the ground today ; and of these few , most will be eroded away and destroyed before they are discovered by fossil hunters . |
| 5 | Does cleaning and washing equipment have to live in the kitchen , or is there a utility room/cupboard under the stairs , or even a large bathroom where they can be stored ? |
| 6 | There was a marked increase in enquiries during the quarter as signs of a recovery begin to appear in the UK housing market . |
| 7 | Combinations of this sort continue to appear in the work of a younger generation of British novelists . |
| 8 | The representations of these bodies can lead to the making of conditions or the reinforcement of conditions which the planning authority wish to impose in the interests of amenity . |
| 9 | In general , the rules leading to higher rates of survival and reproduction tend to increase in the population . |
| 10 | Early results have already proved some theories ; for example that plutonium tend to settle in the liver and the bones ; the peaks picked out here . |
| 11 | Early results have already proved some theories ; for example that plutonium tend to settle in the liver and the bones ; the peaks picked out here . |
| 12 | Soil water and surface runoff tend to accumulate in the hollows between the well-drained mounds and the soil patterns are related to these variations in hydrologic conditions . |
| 13 | This equivalence with the dominant " be aware " sense of know may explain the tendency for operative-sense know to occur in the perfective . |
| 14 | How much this matters in practice depends on the significance that levels of attainment come to acquire in the grouping of children within and between schools , and in the perceptions of pupils by their teachers . |
| 15 | Everton offered better personal terms but hit man Harford settled on Chelsea because he and his family want to stay in the South . |
| 16 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |