Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fate has placed you in a situation of subservience ; but in the sight of God you are the equal of an emperor . |
| 2 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |
| 3 | It appears that in practice the interim government has been unable to operate in Mogadishu and Mr. Qalib has based himself in a hotel in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . |
| 4 | By the time I 've got up there and slithered through the cut-through , Casey has found himself in a fight . |
| 5 | Dr Schoenwetter has found it in a layer of soil 6,000 years old — younger than in Panama , but still older than in Mexico . |
| 6 | One of the aims of this thesis was to use graph search terminology to clarify certain speech processing problems and the method has proved itself in a number of ways . |
| 7 | ‘ Francis has remembered him in a codicil to his Will drawn up in Nassau . |
| 8 | But he didnae tell me that he , he has telled me in a way . |
| 9 | In effect , Ayer has put them in a ghetto and they are happy to remain there , content to be making statements of nonsense in the assurance that what to the believer are the words of God must necessarily appear to the unbeliever mere gobbledygook . |
| 10 | I said very carefully , ‘ Yes , I do see that if your pal Richard is behind this he has put you in a corner . |
| 11 | Third , Raven has signed it in a position that suggests ownership ( i.e ; on the back ) ; if he were claiming authorship he would surely have signed it in the bottom right-hand corner in the normal way . |
| 12 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 13 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 14 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |
| 15 | He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down . |
| 16 | It was thoughtless of Miguel to take the vehicle — but maybe he 'd needed it in a hurry . |
| 17 | He 'd left her in a town just like Dead Rat . |
| 18 | ‘ It looked as though if you 'd left them in a ring on their own , one of them would have had to drop down dead to end the fight . |
| 19 | They 'd kept him in a kiosk on Brighton front day and night waiting for the Germans to invade . |
| 20 | Did they have to sit him in a swivel chair that swung sideways with every movement of his body ? |
| 21 | Only decent thing in the room , if you ask me ; he must have won it in a raffle . |
| 22 | She felt she must have seen it in a dream . |
| 23 | His boyish , open face with its look of disciplined idealism was vaguely familiar to Massingham , who suspected that he might have seen it in a police recruitment pamphlet , but decided in the interest of harmonious co-operation to give Underhill the benefit of the doubt . |
| 24 | Luke Hunter was the sort of man who rode roughshod over everyone else 's opinions — if she had been there alone she was sure she could have convinced them in a fraction of the time . |
| 25 | Yeah I know , but , I 'll have to wipe it in a minute |
| 26 | They should have had them in a box . ’ |
| 27 | Herbert heads for a nearby town where , having gorged himself in a garage , he finds his way to an open space and falls asleep . |
| 28 | yes , oh yes , and erm , going back to somebody asked me earlier , erm , about how it , I feel I have to be able to write about , just about anything , erm , and so if I was given commission to write about any one thing I would have to put myself in a position to , to be able to do it . |
| 29 | It 's coming to the stage soon when we 'll have to put it in a building society , get some interest on it . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd have to leave 'er in a basket at the gate . ’ |