Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a bank purchases such bills it can hold the bills to maturity or sell them in a secondary market to any other bank(s) . |
| 2 | Did it open out a larger world for you , or confine you in a smaller one ? |
| 3 | If you try to make life complicated for yourself by using the wrong tool or handling it in an inappropriate fashion then the result is solely your responsibility . |
| 4 | If a stranger , or a bully , or even someone you know tries to harm you or touch you in a frightening way , RUN AWAY and get help . |
| 5 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
| 6 | Someone may jump onto you or grab you in a lonely street . |
| 7 | Dispose of dirty nappies by flushing them down the toilet , or put them in a sealed plastic bag . |
| 8 | Drain well in a colander and divide them among individual bowls or put them in a large soup tureen . |
| 9 | Some furnishings , pot-holders and ornaments have a very strong-smelling varnish coating , particularly cheap bamboo products with a glossy surface If you have any items of this sort , banish them or put them in an airtight container . |
| 10 | Or put it in a left-luggage compartment somewhere . ’ |
| 11 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 12 | This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state . |
| 13 | It is difficult to speak of popular religion or to define it in a satisfactory way , because it included an amalgam of magic and superstition , belief and doubt , the pagan and the Christian . |
| 14 | The likeliest sources of error would be to underestimate ganglion cell density in the central retina , or overestimate it in the peripheral retina , in the standard distribution function . |
| 15 | Those of us who did n't join up until 1943 , either because we were too young or like me in a reserved occupation , did n't really stand much chance of promotion , not unless we were absolutely brilliant and not many of us were that . |
| 16 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 17 | After use , you can either throw the used head away , or clean it in the usual way . |
| 18 | Two alternatives are possible , either to sell the machine now for £4,200 or use it in a new project that is currently under evaluation . |
| 19 | burning pet waste , or placing it in a sealed bag in a suitable container . |
| 20 | It was stated that authorities on the Japanese constitution did not see difficulty in fitting security provisions into a treaty or placing it in a discrete American-Japanese treaty . |
| 21 | At one time it was not uncommon for a retailer to display an exemption clause in his premises or include it in a written contract even though that clause was rendered totally ineffective by Act of Parliament . |
| 22 | Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense . |
| 23 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 24 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 25 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 26 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 27 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |
| 28 | An intelligence , guided by a purpose , must be continually in action to bias the direction of the steps of change — to regulate their amount — to limit their divergence — and to continue them in a definite course … |
| 29 | She hoped he would approve of her smart black dress and the way she had pulled her hair back from her face and pinned it in a classical knot at the back of her head . |
| 30 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |