Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [v-ing] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they keep their bikes in garages , they should consider removing a wheel and putting it in the house . |
| 2 | Inserting the offending books in canisters of negatively polarised octiron and sinking them in the fathomless depths of the sea was one ( burial in deep caves on land was earlier ruled out after some districts complained of walking trees and five-headed cats ) but before long the magic seeped out and eventually fishermen complained of shoals of invisible fish or psychic clams . |
| 3 | In its origin [ Christianity ] presents to man and woman a glorious picture of sexual integrity : the Son of God who has become man and flesh , knowing from inside his Father 's work and perfecting it in the total self-giving of himself , not only of his spiritual but precisely also of his physical powers , giving not only to one individual but to all . |
| 4 | The mass rally in Florence by the Christian Democrats — who are increasing their support in the south and losing it in the north — to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the start of the Christian Democrat movement , and the appeal to ‘ trust those who know how to govern ’ , seemed curiously old-fashioned and out of key . |
| 5 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 6 | She sat down , spreading her damp hair and squeezing it in the ends of the towel , teasing it out between her fingers . |
| 7 | The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position . |
| 8 | He begins without ceremony by pulling off the blouse and flinging it in the gully . |
| 9 | She might have made her point a lot better by picking up Mouse and dumping him in the garbage can — instead she responded with violence that was really out of proportion to Mouse 's attack . |
| 10 | We had the greatest difficulty in cleaning and recording it in the very limited time available , and in fact there was no time to draw it . |
| 11 | He climbed to the upper level , and from the top of the stairs he could see a wide slice of moonlight telling him that he 'd not only forgotten to lock the door behind them , in his haste he 'd neglected even to close it ; he crossed the decking and closed it now , switching the key from the outside to the inside and turning it in the lock . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the severing of the head and placing it in the font which is so brutal , is n't it ? |
| 13 | The Immigration ( Carriers ' Liability ) Act 1987 was an abominable piece of legislation , privatising immigration and putting it in the hands of aircraft and shipping companies , encouraging the use of bogus identity documents and , in many cases , making it impossible for legitimate asylum seekers to leave their own countries . |
| 14 | Instead of taking it out to the back and throwing it in the bin . |
| 15 | He 's saving three pounds a week and putting it in the post office at hoe . |
| 16 | Picking up rubbish and placing it in the bin is one small step in an ever-growing waste crisis . |
| 17 | He raped the pregnant woman , whom he knew , at her Wigan home last autumn , after suddenly losing his temper and punching her in the face . |
| 18 | But John Wainfleet would only confess to taking Sean 's knife and putting it in the pond as a joke . |
| 19 | She waited until he stabbed at her then , using her left forearm to block his wrist , she followed up by slamming the heel of her right hand against his chin and kneeing him in the groin . |
| 20 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 21 | He wrapped me in a warm coat and placing me in the car took me several miles over the moor . |
| 22 | Whatever course you adopt , you must avoid overstocking the land and overcommitting yourself in the early stages . |
| 23 | , but then , when you come to the lunatic fringe then supervisor 's will cut an awful lot of corners to prevent them busting up the office or punching somebody in the nose , a real , I do n't mean people who are just stroppy , I mean the real lunatic . |
| 24 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 25 | And here is the miracle wrought of changing mental thought into the material and enshrining it in the chemistry of the body for ever . |
| 26 | I helped this along by taking some Flocor from an established filter and placing it in the vat filter . |
| 27 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 28 | It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert . |
| 29 | ‘ Well ’ Peggy drained her glass before walking to the table and placing it in the tray , and her back to her mother , she , said , ‘ When one is an executive one must act like an executive , must n't one ? ’ |
| 30 | We could n't hear what was being said but the large man was bending over Bogie 's table and poking him in the chest . |