Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was my problem , not my husband 's , but he had the patience and the imagination to try everything in the book ! |
| 32 | Rain wondered whether she had the cheek to install her in the Antibes flat borrowed from her newspaper colleague . |
| 33 | ‘ No problem is hopeless if you 've got the courage to look it in the face . |
| 34 | Said Granada 's Controller of Sport Paul Doherty : ‘ I told the ITV lawyers that I consider this unfair restriction of trade and I want ITV as a body to challenge it in the courts . |
| 35 | Several influences combined in this period to help him in the search for an alternative theological approach . |
| 36 | Thus ( 66 ) implies " He did n't dare oppose his wife 's whims any more than he dared commit high treason " , ( 67 ) that the speaker is of the opinion that they would n't dare say a word against him , and in ( 68 ) the speaker very clearly believes that the addressee does n't have the cheek to look him in the eye and tell such an obvious lie . |
| 37 | A running calendar is simply a tool to guide you in the direction you want to go . |
| 38 | Mummy tell daddy to put me in the hall . |
| 39 | There 's nothing quite like sexy lingerie to put you in the mood so knock him dead on Valentine 's Day with some of this sizzling underwear from the latest Freemans Spring/Summer collection . |
| 40 | It was a good move to keep it in the theatre . " |
| 41 | Homo homini lupus : who has the courage to dispute it in the face of all evidence in his own life and in history ? |
| 42 | These involved considering : ( a ) how long it will take the purchaser to build up further clientele ; ( b ) how frequently customers in the market change between the various competitors ; ( c ) how quickly new products come on to the market and are taken up by customers ; ( d ) how long it will take the vendor to re-establish itself in the market if there is no restrictive covenant . |
| 43 | If the rumour is true that Ceauşescu recruited his future guards and secret policemen from among these abandoned souls , then their failure to save him in the crisis of his regime is hardly surprising . |
| 44 | Oh no , there 's no need to have it in the dark , you can see alright with it . |
| 45 | It was my job to bury her in the church . |
| 46 | The generous buffet is both pleasing to the eye and the taste buds , with free wine to get you in the mood for an evening of entertainment . |
| 47 | David Stirling felt that this was a waste of time and resources and that it should be possible for a large group to maintain itself in the desert for a period of several weeks . |
| 48 | High quality opportunism like that is what Tranmere paid Everton £300,000 for but , until he scored , the travelling fans were entitled to question Nevin 's eagerness to involve himself in the game . |
| 49 | He must still be in with a chance of making the tour — although Andy Gregory 's 11th-hour decision to put himself in the frame must have reduced the odds somewhat . |
| 50 | For Foucault , the tendency of theories of ideology to entrammel themselves in the categories of psychoanalysis , even with the eternal in Althusser 's case , means that they themselves begin to utilize the very procedures of individuation that they ought to have been analysing . |
| 51 | They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’ |
| 52 | We get our chance to see it in the Ulster Hall on Wednesday 14th April . |
| 53 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |
| 54 | ‘ I 'm just sorry that he 's had this problem at a time when he would surely have had the chance to establish himself in the England side . |
| 55 | He must first obtain leave to move for judicial review and then , if he obtains leave , must succeed in persuading the court to help him in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction . |
| 56 | She came last to Lachlan , and for the first time since he had startled her raised her head to look him in the face . |
| 57 | Buyers are given assembly instructions and a video to help them in the building of their car , and Mr Nearn maintains that the kits are not difficult to put together . |
| 58 | Watching the dismantling of the Do 24 with great interest will be a team of Dutch engineers from the Militaire Luchvaart Museum , who will be making a video of the event to aid them in the task of reassembling the flying boat in Holland . |
| 59 | Although some of the things that you were taught you maybe never got a chance to do them in the bakery . |
| 60 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |