Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 2 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 3 | Another result is that firms make ‘ supernormal ’ profits ( profits in excess of those necessary to induce them to remain in the industry ) at consumers ' expense . |
| 4 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 5 | It 's great to see them perform in those kinds of circumstances . |
| 6 | Because you like to see them gasp in amazement . |
| 7 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
| 8 | I would nt be at all suprised to see them play in the ‘ theatre of dreams ’ . |
| 9 | After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature . |
| 10 | It was lovely to see them growing in er Singapore . |
| 11 | I 'd like to see them get in there and try it . |
| 12 | If they had faith in their own proposals , they would be happy to see them discussed in detail . |
| 13 | At this Mr Healey was jolly pleased to see me trapped in the Thickets of Quotation , and , again merrily , said , ‘ Plato ? |
| 14 | ‘ World Day of the Sick ’ is a special time of prayer and sharing , of offering one 's suffering for the good of the Church and of reminding everyone to see in his sick brother or sister the face of Christ who , by suffering , dying and rising , achieved the salvation of mankind . |
| 15 | and have proved that putting a phone in each guest 's room encourages them to keep in touch with their office or home . |
| 16 | I have now , through your lordship 's favour , the satisfaction of seeing them cultivated in my neighbourhood , by the skilful hand of my friend , Mr. Miller , and shall take the first opportunity of describing and engraving them that the public may see how much they are indebted to your lordship . |
| 17 | Far from being an eyesore , local people get pleasure seeing them blowing in the wind . |
| 18 | On seeing me standing in defiance , arms folded and apparently so cool-looking , a hush descended . |
| 19 | ‘ In other words , you do n't want me to behave in my usual bull-headed manner . ’ |
| 20 | Well do you want me to go in the cellar see what we 've got ? |
| 21 | But this is his moment , and he does n't want me getting in the way . |
| 22 | You do n't want me put in jug , do you ? ’ |
| 23 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 24 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 25 | Both her mortality and her immortality scared them until they kept their distance , and invented stories about her powers that made them shiver in their bones . |
| 26 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
| 27 | The Victorians , of course , for all their virtues , had an edge of prudery which made them condemn in public that which they were busy practising in private . |
| 28 | This is performed by resuspending 50 g of diatoms ( Sigma D 5-384 ) in 500 ml of water , and allowing them to settle in a 500 ml measuring cylinder for 3 hours . |
| 29 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 30 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |