Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our attitude is that we want to see everyone in the six counties , whether Protestant or Catholic , active in the movement to attain civil rights for the people there . |
| 2 | seven o'clock , well I thought I 'd come a bit earlier forget that they want a tidy living room , they want to get the toys out of the way , they want to present themselves in the best possible light so they 'd be more forgiving if you 're late than if you 're too early to be on time . |
| 3 | Mummy me want to eat them in the high chair |
| 4 | Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team . |
| 5 | Knowing that this particular subordinate is sensitive to criticism , you decide to reprimand him in the open-plan office where many of his colleagues at neighbouring desks will hear what is going on . |
| 6 | Here I am admitting that all the clichés of parenthood are so accurate it 's no wonder that the only people who try to express them in the open are Hollywood film makers . |
| 7 | A software crash generally happens when you try to do something in the same way — i.e. the crash is repeatable . |
| 8 | As a result they talk a lot of bullshit about how this is their generation 's answer to LSD ( It 's our final frontier ’ ) and also call up the memories of past sins and traumas — playground racism , the suicide of a Viet vet father , some modish videotape voyeurism , bullying and murder even — which then return to haunt them in the real world . |
| 9 | They argued , and some still do , that in order to grasp fully how social situations are created and sustained by social actors , social investigators need to immerse themselves in the social world under study . |
| 10 | But Iago 's ‘ practice ’ is so assured , his control of surface and perspective so total , that we have to put him in the highest class of hypocrites , along with Satan . |
| 11 | That 's it you have to put it in the simplest of terms and that is the way that most people would understand it , you know , you come to sixty five or whatever and instead of having three hundred pounds a week you 've got eighty five pounds a week and what are you going to do about it . |
| 12 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 13 | There now exist community groups of a greater or lesser degree of militancy which have eschewed political parties as the main vehicle of their demands ( although they often have to use them in the later stages of campaigns ) . |
| 14 | We get money for doing that , but we ca n't spend it in our homes we have to use it in the private sector , so , at the end of the day , er , whether we like it or not , we did n't like these decisions but that 's the way we 've got to go . |
| 15 | there was about twenty cards and you had to name everything that was on it , order everything , like you usually go , erm that 's it or something and erm you have to learn it in the MAs and MEs and things and all that and then she showed you and you had to take everything on that |
| 16 | have to push it in the right place . |
| 17 | When I finish playing , I hope to follow Mick Channon into racing but before that happens I have to prove myself in the Premier League . |
| 18 | ‘ I honestly believe I can score goals at any level and I plan to prove it in the next month . |
| 19 | This can turn into a driver where people then feel they have to achieve everything in the fastest possible time . |