Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want me to join in the whole furore . |
| 2 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two . |
| 4 | Remember that bit of bother I had in the Red Hart in Berkeley ? ’ he continued , ‘ the sailor went through the window . ’ |
| 5 | D' ya remember in the first when we had curly going everywhere . |
| 6 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 7 | In the flat land of the Delta the babies cry themselves to sleep in the airless shade , while everyone else labours in the scintillating sun . |
| 8 | Huge panoramic windows and large observation decks let you take in the passing scenery , whilst the attentive crew are always ready to sort out a drink or a snack . |
| 9 | He was , he was , th they they took him , they chained him up , and they let him loose in the local cemetery , and left him there . |
| 10 | Then he says ‘ But he who tells of wars and heaven , under the sway of grown up Jupiter , of pious heroes and semi-divine leaders , who at one moment things of the holy assemblies of the gods on high and then of those deep kingdoms where a fierce dog barks , let him live in the frugal manner of Pythagoras and let herbs provide his harmless diet ’ . |
| 11 | Bondholder Erica Bachman told the court : ‘ Let him live in the same misery he brought upon his victims . ’ |
| 12 | Let us participate in the Holy Spirit of of life fighting for our life on this earth in solidarity with all living peace . |
| 13 | Let us begin in the thirteenth century . |
| 14 | They have been inspired by a reverence for the so-called ‘ feminine ’ , an essentially patriarchal construct which participates in the whole Madonna/whore syndrome . |
| 15 | ‘ Just watch him go in the 200 metres . |
| 16 | Well , well I mean we called in the other day |
| 17 | That was what set me thinking in the first place . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I just hope I can keep shooting birdies like I have in the first two rounds . ’ |
| 19 | language I remember you saying in the first year when you first came to Birmingham |
| 20 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 21 | I remember we saw in the other shop It happened again . |
| 22 | I think it 's along side that , behind that remember we got in the wrong lane one day and we |
| 23 | The efforts of Rusty Conway , Chief Public Relations Officer at U.V.I. , to minimize the publicity caused by this event get him entangled in the competing empires of television and the press . |
| 24 | If he ca n't find her at home , tell him to look in the public library in the afternoon . |
| 25 | When they wake they dress in the loosest clothes , |
| 26 | ‘ I know what happened in the early years was morally wrong . |
| 27 | In his Championship-winning days , Smith would be without goals for four or five games then find them flowing in the next five or so . |
| 28 | Basically my father who I believe you knew in the Sixties … he organised lots of the roadhouse shows ? |
| 29 | Guess they mixed in the same diplomatic circles , got to know each other . |
| 30 | They would sip sherry or port , nibble at the nuts and raisins and allow themselves to wallow in the warm softness . |