Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 2 | She hated it , and hated him , but she was no longer resisting him , so she accepted it in aching silence , desire overwhelming pride at last . |
| 3 | She went on without prompting : ‘ Although he was a painter he was a very literary man so we had plenty in common . |
| 4 | Well we decided , decided what we w , what the object was , and then , we got into a position that certain cards so , the cards were split between u , the two of us , so we aimed it in different directions . |
| 5 | Once we made it in four hours , door to beach to door : bury Mum 's feet in the sand , forget they 're there , plunge spade into sand and come close to severing three toes . |
| 6 | You see in consecrated ground so they buried her in this bit of wheat land at the Muckle Water there . |
| 7 | And then she checked Well anyway the week after he 'd phoned there was no what you call in it so he wrote it in to the damn thing and said why is it when some people puts adverts in they not only put it in once they put it in three or four times the same week |
| 8 | It did not , however , initiate the longer-term processes discussed above , although it affected them in different ways — contributing to the globalization of liberal political ideas and economic policies , posing new challenges to the European integration process as the East European states seek to participate therein , and stimulating the process of fragmentation . |
| 9 | This was only owr fift defeet in ten leeg games ( we allso went don 2- at Clansford ) so it stood us in good sted for owr Fst rownd match against Drizley Welfare in the ‘ FARMBOY SHEEP SCAB LINEMENT INTER-LEAGUE TROPHY ’ . |
| 10 | So , if I 've nothing in these first four cells , and something in that one , and something in that one and nothing below . |
| 11 | If I do it in private , I may easily fall into the way of doing so in public . |
| 12 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 13 | I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields . |
| 14 | I 'm breaking up the spaghetti cos I hate it in long lengths ! |
| 15 | But if someb if somebody put them in plain language to me , |
| 16 | This was attended by the daughters of the best society in Funchal until she closed it in 1892 . |
| 17 | This whole scale concept across the entire fretboard is a powerful way of improving your familiarity with the fretboard , although you might not see the full implications of this exercise until you memorise it in all keys . |
| 18 | What on earth would she think if she saw her in this ridiculous get-up ? |
| 19 | God knows , he thought , I should n't say anything about it if she nagged me in any halfway reasonable manner . |
| 20 | As his wife had pointed out tartly , on many occasions , she herself would never get through a quarter of her work if she indulged herself in such idleness . |
| 21 | But what we ca n't , it 's absolutely but if you write it in all the other divisions have got to do it as well . |
| 22 | Perhaps if you heard it in different circumstances , su , you know , surrounded by Chinese people , then maybe you would begin to recognise it . |
| 23 | This will increase the disorder of the universe by about twenty million million million million units — or about ten million million million times the increase in order in your brain — and that 's if you remember everything in this book . |
| 24 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 25 | if you hold it in one hand . |
| 26 | So if you get someone in that situation who 's saying I 'm desperate for money , I 'm claiming income support , I 've heard nothing and you have n't been told how much they 're entitled to . |
| 27 | Presumably when you do land in a position like that even though as you say you 're getting near the end of the game for the blue ball , you would n't deliberately not go through the hoop , if you 'll put in that , if you put yourself in that position ? |
| 28 | If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences . |
| 29 | Perfectly normal , kind , well-intentioned people will behave oddly , becoming upset , withdrawn or even vicious , if you put them in certain kinds of unusual situations . |
| 30 | it will be better if you put it in that toy machine mum |