Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 2 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 3 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 4 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 5 | If you have lost your glasses , it may be that you upset your friends by failing to recognize them in the street . |
| 6 | But he was n't going to get out of it by trying to put her in the wrong . |
| 7 | Luke begins his account of the birth of Jesus by trying to set it in the context of world history . |