Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [pron] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange said : " Athletes who are in the public eye have a responsibility to conduct themselves in a manner which can set a positive example . |
| 2 | The infliction of pain upon a horse affects it in a very profound way . |
| 3 | The challenge was taken up by Harry Baker , who being provided with a weight placed it in a backet and walked from Halling Institute to Snodland Institute , so winning the bet , but he had more difficulty collecting his winnings . |
| 4 | She did not focus on the actual wording of the questions , and as a result answered them in a rather uncritical way . |
| 5 | Ninety percent of them said yes , that it depends on how you present the figures , so in actual fact I wonder how our tenant farmers all of a sudden find themselves in a position that they perhaps would rather sign a petition and not put their heads above the parapet bearing in mind you are in a community , bear in mind you are connected , bear in mind that your livelihood is with those others and I have to say it is true that a certain business in my area connected with farming has been threatened . |
| 6 | Picasso 's dismissal of traditional perspective had been the result of his interest in investigating the nature of solid form and of a desire to express it in a new , more thorough and comprehensive , pictorial way . |
| 7 | The purpose of recording interviews is to give students a chance to see themselves in a situation where they ca n't predict the direction an exchange may take . |
| 8 | Another distinct group among the long-term unemployed are the very young , many of whom have never had a chance to prove themselves in a job . |
| 9 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 10 | It costs the taxpayer £130-£165 a week to keep someone in a residential or nursing home , he says . |
| 11 | A woman put her in a car and drove away and I did n't see Shelly again . |
| 12 | And we 'd like to see the Union fully recognized inside , because , after all , the workers there they need a union representing them in a company like that . |
| 13 | " We would not allow a farmer to stick something in a cow and chase it three times around five fields before it died " , Gummer said . |
| 14 | Communication draws to a standstill when a couple find themselves in a ‘ lip-lock ’ . |
| 15 | Both Charles the Bald , his grandson , and Alfred in England , compared themselves to Solomon , ruling in accordance with divine wisdom , and Alfred as a lawgiver saw himself in a succession of lawgivers beginning with Moses . |
| 16 | If the pub as an institution expresses itself in a rich variety of ways , the same is true of the physical forms it takes . |
| 17 | His big break came when an agent spotted him in a prison production of the Tempest and signed him up . |
| 18 | ‘ Sir William the Good ’ , an Indian called him in a farewell tribute . |