Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] in a " in BNC.

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1 Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " .
2 He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement .
3 Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them .
4 The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue .
5 Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund .
6 They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value .
7 According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman .
8 ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned .
9 Come to see me in a fortnight .
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 GDA , as part of the SEN Scottish Defence Initiative , is pro-actively addressing the needs of defence dependent companies by assisting them in a programme of new market identification and diversification .
12 But I was thinking , looking at them — ’ he gestured towards the tourists — ‘ seeing them in a group , it reminded me of a time in cadet school .
13 Seeing me in a state of bewildered angst , they would come up and intone directions in a rhythmical and mysterious language .
14 She folded his discarded jeans and shirt and stowed them in a locker , then turned his sleeping-bag inside out and shook it .
15 They wanted to kill me in a horrific way , to frighten those who work in defence of human rights .
16 The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock .
17 The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology .
18 On fine days start cutting sprigs of herbs for drying , hanging them in a shed to dry out completely before crushing for storage in screw-top jars .
19 And wrapt me in a gown .
20 Gloria wiped the tongs clean with a scrap of paper , twirling them in a circle until they had cooled slightly , then she coiled a strand of Ruth 's hair round the tongs and when it was tightly curled , fixed it in place with two hairpins .
21 ‘ Do n't dish them out , or I 'll counteract them in a way you wo n't like . ’
22 Once a bank purchases such bills it can hold the bills to maturity or sell them in a secondary market to any other bank(s) .
23 The idea took off and now Dunkin' Donuts , who sell them in an amazing 31 flavours , say ‘ holes ’ are one of their most popular lines .
24 And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim .
25 three eighty five do you want them in a carrier bag ?
26 They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way .
27 He has studied the details of their forms and physiognomy and renders them in a manner both truthful and original .
28 Like the smaller copepods , euphausiids are mainly herbivorous , combing algal cells from the water and gathering them in a basket-like arrangement of bristles on their many-jointed forelimbs .
29 Clad in a sparkly jacket and a long black skirt , wreathed in silly string and clumps and strands of paper streamers from party poppers , her long hair bunned , she enveloped me in a very friendly kiss , breathing whisky and wine fumes .
30 He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes .
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