Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This evening I visited Scouse 's latrine , the mosquitoes and all the flies were having a fieldday ; there were clouds of them hanging over the latrine in the still evening air . |
| 2 | Fred joined them and urged them to come to the cemetery in the funeral cars . |
| 3 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 4 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |
| 5 | And according to the erm agreement which I made with the franchisee in June eighty nine erm his rent is also due for review er this August . |
| 6 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 7 | I mean in the past in has always turned out that what people have thought to be elementary turns out never to be elementary . |
| 8 | ‘ Orficer , ’ she said , ‘ I sit on the bench in Cisister . |
| 9 | The next day the Rivers family returned to their separate places of work , and I moved to the cottage in Morton . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , for a couple of years , then I moved to the General in Leeds where I was on Orthopaedics . ’ |
| 11 | I moved off the dredger in nineteen thirty two and I was crane driving from nineteen thirty two till after the war . |
| 12 | It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all . |
| 13 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 14 | I apologise for the delay in response — we had to track down which university you were at ! |
| 15 | I apologise for the delay in replying , but I have only just got to the bottom of my ‘ in tray ’ after months of chasing deadlines ! |
| 16 | I apologise for the delay in replying to you . |
| 17 | I apologise for the delay in replying . |
| 18 | I apologise for the delay in replying to you . |
| 19 | I apologise for the delay in arriving . |
| 20 | The outcome , according to Levi-Strauss , is a generalized circularity analogous to that which I described for the relationship in our commercial system between an author and his book-buying reader . |
| 21 | I pitch through the hedge in tow . |
| 22 | where I squinted through the gap in the serving hatch |
| 23 | Bending and brushing away overhanging thorn branches , I sidled through the water in vain hopes of seeing one of the otters that lived here , according to Mrs Knelle . |
| 24 | I was the favourite to win the ‘ double ’ , but in the 200 metres , though I came off the bend in the lead , I relaxed too much and first John Regis and then Todd Bennett came past me . |
| 25 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What am I ? ’ she asked looking at Tumbleweed , and then began to recite in a sing-song voice , ‘ with a stick in me hand and a stone in me throat , I walk through the land in me shiny , red coat . ’ |
| 27 | I studied for the UCLI in Home Machine Knitting and , on passing both parts of the exam , went on to teach it for three years . |
| 28 | I drove to the hospital in Bangor with Nathan watching the road intently and hanging on to the handbrake . |
| 29 | On Hazely Peat Moor Bill waited for me , grinning as I slogged through the heather in the heat . |
| 30 | I arrived at the station in good time and chained my travel-bag to the luggage rack . |