Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [pron] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done . |
| 2 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |
| 3 | Occasionally I would join Robins on the bridge ; at other times , when all was going well , he would come into the saloon to join me in a drink served by a Cockney steward called Tomkins ; the choice was limited , but I did n't drink much anyway . |
| 4 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 5 | As The Economist put it in a wide ranging analysis : ‘ European business needs more competition , not less ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The decision puts us in a very difficult position . |
| 7 | The danger of criticizing the appointment of particular judges was shown when in June 1980 a Belfast jury awarded £50,000 damages to a Northern Ireland county court judge for a libel contained in an article in the Economist suggesting that his appointment had been based , as The Times put it in a leading article , not so much on his ability but on the fact that he was a Roman Catholic . |
| 8 | I rose hurriedly and stumbled towards the door but the redolence followed me in a wave . |
| 9 | The DoE tell me in a letter that they are free from indemnity . |
| 10 | She could lie in bed at night and in imagination move confidently around the cottage touching them in a happy exploration of shared memories and reassurance . |
| 11 | The stranger kept her in a sound vacuum , through which no fascinating rhythm could penetrate . |
| 12 | The President feels himself in a state of siege . |
| 13 | The reformulated law makes it plain that an offence is committed if the defendant conducts himself in a way that causes his victim to anticipate that the defendant is about to use unlawful violence . |
| 14 | Side-reins should be of the same length and of a length which encourages the horse to hold himself in a balanced outline . |
| 15 | Following the Exodus from Egypt and the Settlement in Canaan in the latter part of the second millennium BC , the Jews found themselves in a region which was on the main line of communication between Egypt and Babylonia . |
| 16 | The fireman put me in a car and drove me back home . |
| 17 | I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The law leaves us in a very curious condition , ’ former consultant Alan Dixon told the Cox case jury . |
| 19 | Whereas in Italy , where the Communist Party also split , the reformers outnumbered the old guard , in Spain the reformers found themselves in a minority . |
| 20 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 21 | As it tried to thrash away from its attacker the fish stranded itself in a shallow section . |
| 22 | It 's the people's. tell you in a minute . |
| 23 | Antoine Bloye not only clarifies the meaning of Antoine 's life and in the process immortalises it in a negative exemplary narrative . |
| 24 | Bare , a little shabby , sorely in need of a fresh coat of paint , yet the room excited her in a way she could never have explained . |
| 25 | As baby Odessa 's condition deteriorated they were forced by the war to leave her in a hospital in Belgrade . |
| 26 | For Lacan notes how it is only when the infant encounters itself in a ‘ mirroring ’ image that a form is set up for the face and body ; the mirror provides a perceptual gestalt ‘ ideal ’ form , which does not reflect a reality since it differs from the subject 's fragmentary experience . |
| 27 | Indeed , Picasso 's admiration for various complementary , at times even formally opposed categories of tribal sculpture is indicative of the instinctive pull which he was feeling between an increased interest in solid , sculptural forms and an awareness of the need to depict them in a manner that did not violate the flat , two-dimensional plane on which he was working . |
| 28 | In Prussia the crisis manifested itself in a variety of ways . |
| 29 | Similar reasoning could be applied where the plaintiff puts himself in a position which is not dangerous in itself but he is aware of circumstances which make it more likely that he will suffer harm . |
| 30 | As a result the banks found themselves in a quandary — they had lent vast sums of money which could neither be repaid nor return interest . |