Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mrs Cecil 's departure was preceded by such an entire sinking of her constitution and by an exhaustion tending so much to lethargy that she was seldom able to converse … and it was a peculiar favour to herself and daughters that Mr Simeon and her excellent son were in the house and watched for every reviving moment to pray or converse with her in all holy tenderness , till she ceased to breathe . ’ |
| 2 | He now feels that he will never be liked or respected by anyone in this school again . |
| 3 | Lovat ended that appeal by emphasising his belief that it was ‘ a most wise & prudent maxim that a man in power should do for those that he is pretty sure will stand & fall with him in all events ’ , and in general that was the major qualification for appointment to the judicial bench in eighteenth-century Scotland . |
| 4 | Or to look at it in another way , if all the defaulters in community charge payments were paying their due amount , perhaps these closures would not be necessary . |
| 5 | Feminist psychology 's theoretical neglect of power relations is also demonstrated in its tendency to ignore differences in age , ‘ race ’ , class and sexuality , or to deal with them in biological terms . |
| 6 | If you received a grant from Gulbenkian or worked with them in any way , then he would be grateful to hear from you . |
| 7 | ‘ My father specifically forbade us to communicate any of the information it contained to the authorities , or to cooperate with them in any way whatsoever . |
| 8 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 9 | She embraced her sobbing daughter and clung to her in desperate shame . |
| 10 | There I found the author of Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick sipping mineral water , tapping a hand-drum and singing to himself in 17th-century verse . |
| 11 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 12 | Shock made her cry out , and he closed the door and moved towards her in quick strides , putting his hand across her mouth to stop-her scream . |
| 13 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 14 | To any casual observer it would have been a very comical sight A six foot one inch hulk of a man cavorting about and shouting at nothing in particular in a moonlit pool . |
| 15 | But there was no time to give this disturbing idea attention ; Tealtaoich was nearly at the Trees and the Trees were grouped together watching him and waiting for him in complete silence and it was important not to miss a single instant of any of it . |
| 16 | Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 . |
| 17 | Of all the nurses she had known only Minnie Robinson had remained loved and revered and even now , when she was old and pensioned off , Miss Arabel visited her faithfully and turned to her in complete trust for advice and comfort . |
| 18 | The four full page introductory plates in the Dictionary of fruits , flowers and parts of plants were drawn and engraved by him in meticulous detail . |
| 19 | As he was saying goodbye today , I saw him open his mouth and look at me in that way . |
| 20 | We will take each of the main triggering events and look at them in more detail . |
| 21 | However the dealers who bought and sold for themselves in opportune moments while trading in new issues on behalf of clients have sometimes been found out and reprimanded , but not usually sacked , if they were good dealers . |
| 22 | But Pavel was level-headed , and he knew that he had a certain inner strength ; nobody could have kept her and cared for her in secret and for so long without it . |
| 23 | And God will not only listen to our insignificant prayers , but has given us his Spirit to enable us to pray and to share with us in that most demanding task . |
| 24 | He would soon argue for a Whitmanesque , democratic art , drawn from the people and distributed to them in popular editions , accessible to all and finding its way into ‘ workmen 's houses and farms ’ . |
| 25 | They were sitting and staring at him in complete absorption . |
| 26 | Boy paused before answering , and looked at himself in one of the mirrors . |
| 27 | The centre of this novel is the interpolated tale of the dead and beloved Tom Outland , who discovers a prehistoric and beautiful city in the sun on the mesa , and tells about it in immediate , enthusiastic prose . |
| 28 | So thank you for 1991 , and go for it in 1992 . |
| 29 | Lloyd 's brothers Graham and Adrian have also played and scored for us in recent years , so I guess we will have to start scouring the valleys now to find another of his relatives . ’ |
| 30 | A choreographer should translate this definition into dance terms thus : taking the moods , emotions and actions expressed , understood and observed by everyone in general and using natural gestures when applying the rules of choreographic grammar without trying to express them in any other way . |