Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , the neat division of society into a minority of freeholders sharply contrasted with the mass of tenant farmers and landless men stops far short of the whole truth in its failure to acknowledge the interest of copyholders whose security of tenure made them freeholders in all but name , or to distinguish leaseholders with long terms from mere tenants at will . |
| 2 | These rules must have that generality and universality which make them ingredients in impartial determinations and sufficient precision and bite to be used in making genuine resolutions of disputes , for instance , over territory ; second , the extension of the role and jurisdiction of juridically sound international courts on the model of the International Court of Justice , to which there will be compulsory reference of disorder endangering disputes to be decided by the application of the relevant set of reformed international laws , and the decisions of which would be mandatory with no reservations permitted ; 4 third , the massive extension of non-coercive jural agencies in the area of enforcement where this is taken to mean the monitoring of the behaviour of states in relation to international law and the decisions of international courts . |
| 3 | So , of course , what happened was that you had all these wonderful posters about you as you walked in the foyer and as the punters came out drunk , you sold them weekends in Ibiza . |
| 4 | In another case , headlined as ‘ The Alleged Hooligan Tragedy ’ , a man died after a street-fight and it was reported that on arrival at hospital he had made a statement to the effect that , ‘ I got my injuries in the Borough through being kicked to death by Hooligans . ’ |
| 5 | I stowed my notes in my pocket , and headed for the lifts . |
| 6 | But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood ? |
| 7 | ‘ This is the first time I 've had to carry my clubs in my life . ’ |
| 8 | W. P. With kids , I used to carry my gloves in my hand and without any fingers in , and I used to catch them with the gloves if they were cheeky , and if they got cheekier still , I used to take them home for a belt . |
| 9 | I sell my goods in many western countries , but these Russians … ’ |
| 10 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 11 | I could feel a slight pressure on me shoulders , but it did n't restrict my movements in any way . |
| 12 | In September 1938 , when I was sixteen , I went back to my native country for a holiday ; partly because 1 wanted to see my friends in štanjel , and partly so that I could visit my uncles , aunts and cousins on my mother 's side of the family in Mavhinje . |
| 13 | ‘ There was a scene where I wanted to keep my clothes on and I told Adrian ‘ They do n't have to see my breasts in every shot , do they ? ’ |
| 14 | I sat eating my sandwiches in a grumpy sulk at the top of a mountain recently , while the pack of men surrounding a paraglider prepared him for take-off . |
| 15 | She 'd placed my slippers in their normal place on the mat so I slipped into them and crept quietly to her chair . |
| 16 | Firing my shoes in here ? |
| 17 | I 've squared my feelings in that respect long ago . |
| 18 | I walk back to my car with friends , talking all the while , and fumbling my keys in door , fail to open it . |
| 19 | I stopped a hundred yards down the road and checked my bearings in the paperback A-Z I keep taped behind the sun visor . |
| 20 | ‘ We checked my symptoms in some of the six or so books we had on the subject of birth , but none of them matched up with what I was feeling . |
| 21 | And this causes me difficulties in that I have to either imagine what it was or come back again to see whatever the er item in question is . |
| 22 | Well same when we went and found them boys in it ! |
| 23 | I wrote to Belgium , and found them places in a school in Brussels , which was owned by a Monsieur Héger . |
| 24 | ‘ There ! ’ gasped Dimity , ‘ I 'd forgotten my cakes in the excitement . ’ |
| 25 | While walking the Pennine Way I cooled my feet in the beck before continuing south to Airton and Gargrave . |
| 26 | ‘ I fixed up months ago to meet my parents in East Berlin today and took some holiday for it , ’ fumed one man . |
| 27 | I recently visited my relatives in Morecambe and took the opportunity to do some fell walking in the Lakes . |
| 28 | Pose my questions in a logical sequence and link them with the candidate 's replies ? |
| 29 | I drew my feet in naturally to let them pass , but he called out : ‘ No , leave your feet there ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I have met the Luciferi , ’ I replied , and heard Madame Ralemberg moan as I briefly described my assailants in the alleyway and the appearance of my mysterious protectors . |