Example sentences of "to [pron] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
| 2 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 3 | It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans . |
| 4 | Second , women and men have different responsibilities accorded to them in the domestic division of labour . |
| 5 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 6 | But there had been no reference to them in the detailed report of Surrendered Ex-Enemy Personnel sent up by 5 Corps to Eighth Army two days earlier , on 15 May [ KP 112 ] . |
| 7 | Leaving aside the phrase that the hon. Gentleman attributed to me in the early part of his question , I can reassure him that the budget for the health service will be £3.7 billion , an increase of £342 million , or 10.1 per cent . |
| 8 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 9 | Forwarding a copy of this letter to his wife , he added that ‘ I quite squirm at the thought lest some successor to me in the near future should treat these chiefs in a different manner from my own ’ . |
| 10 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |
| 11 | Politically we are on a hiding to nothing in the long run and so I guess the only satisfactory way forward would be to leave badgers completely alone and compensate farmers in full for badger-related losses , including consequential losses . ’ |
| 12 | The outside world and all its adversities faded away to nothing in the heated thrill of his embrace . |
| 13 | ‘ Put me through to the police office , please , ’ he said to someone in the outer office . |
| 14 | Do n't bother would be more honest , for he prefers to have the kitchen to himself in the early morning , to prepare his own simple breakfast and enjoy the first cigarette of the day undisturbed . |
| 15 | If you are currently receiving income support , the DSS will send a form to you in the late Autumn . |
| 16 | Not exactly impressing with all the chances which comes to you in the english league ’ frank says . |
| 17 | So could I just in conclusion say please fill in your short questionnaire thank you for your attendance and I can assure you as Chairman of the trust what you said and the question 's you 've raised this evening will be looked at in great detail and we will be reporting back to you in the near future about the proposals that we wish to make . |
| 18 | Dear Prime Minister , In spite of the most helpful representations and advice from my staff , I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … ’ |
| 19 | I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … |
| 20 | I write to you in the full possession of my faculties and not as a madman but as the brother you know . |
| 21 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 22 | She pointed to one in the main part of the bar . |
| 23 | She swallowed jerkily , pressing herself more closely to him in the eerie darkness . |
| 24 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
| 25 | ‘ And I am not talking to him in the other room . ’ |
| 26 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 27 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 28 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 29 | The audience was fidgeting behind him , and there was a limit to the amount of time he intended to chat to this crazy woman next to him in the soiled wedding dress and veil . |
| 30 | Where an innocent purchaser is able to rely upon an estoppel , property in the goods passes to him in the normal way , i.e. as if his seller himself has good title to give . |