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 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 4 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 7 | Come to see me in a fortnight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Seeing me in a state of bewildered angst , they would come up and intone directions in a rhythmical and mysterious language . |
| 12 | She folded his discarded jeans and shirt and stowed them in a locker , then turned his sleeping-bag inside out and shook it . |
| 13 | They wanted to kill me in a horrific way , to frighten those who work in defence of human rights . |
| 14 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And wrapt me in a gown . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't dish them out , or I 'll counteract them in a way you wo n't like . ’ |
| 20 | 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) . |
| 21 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 22 | three eighty five do you want them in a carrier bag ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He has studied the details of their forms and physiognomy and renders them in a manner both truthful and original . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes . |
| 28 | The modern world has discovered that citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C — and has started using them in a big way for cooking . |
| 29 | In many cases pupils at Key Stage 2 will use the same kinds of resources as were used at Key Stage 1 , though they will be using them in a more sophisticated way . |
| 30 | As well as discussing experiences and problems in handling microcomputers , the group looked at programs available and experimented with using them in a variety of ways . |