Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | sleep in Lindsey 's room you see and then |
| 2 | But tonight , go and sleep in Adèle 's room . |
| 3 | Antonia , you go and sleep in Leo 's room . |
| 4 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 5 | In 1800 he became assistant to the latter , who at the same time gave him a post in the Office of Works as labourer in trust at Carlton House and also employed him in connection with his work as surveyor of the ordnance ; his first recorded works — minor country-house commissions in Staffordshire , of 1803–5 — were designed in James 's office for execution by the Wyatt family building business ; and in 1805 he submitted designs for Downing College , Cambridge , after those by James had been severely criticized by Thomas Hope [ q.v. ] , perhaps in an attempt to salvage the commission for the family . |
| 6 | It was just dawn in Shepherd 's Bush , and he could make out without the flame of a candle the narrow , tightly packed words crabbing across the paper . |
| 7 | Not exactly subtle , considering the case 's complexity , but it is the verdict which no doubt still lingers in people 's minds months after the convictions were quashed . |
| 8 | The echo of that street-market record stall still lingers in Street 's insatiable appetite for new music , for , unlike many in-demand producers , Stephen is not of the opinion that music stopped evolving in 1975 ! |
| 9 | The Druze leader , Mr Walid Jumblatt — who , like others in the Syrian camp , is far from happy with the Taif accord — accused the Arab League envoy , Mr Lakhear Ibrahimi , of interfering in Lebanon 's internal affairs , almost as if ‘ he wants to become prime minister himself ’ . |
| 10 | The USC executive committee , which apparently supported Farah Aydid , had meanwhile accused Italy of interfering in Somalia 's domestic affairs and had demanded that Rome recall its ambassador , Mario Sica . |
| 11 | China warned that Congress 's acts threatened student exchanges and further " poisoned " relations , and called on the US government to match its words with actions or face the " serious consequences " of " wantonly interfering in China 's internal affairs " . |
| 12 | Rather than risk losing its MFN position , the Chinese government has clearly thought it expedient to make a good-will gesture to the new Clinton administration , ( though at the same time appending warnings that outsiders should stop interfering in China 's internal affairs . ) |
| 13 | The government of Vanuatu on July 3 accused an Australian diplomat , James Pearson , acting head of the Australian High Commission in Port Vila , of interfering in Vanuatu 's internal affairs . |
| 14 | Like a scene from a pantomime , he asked if they wanted a single currency and to have other countries interfering in Britain 's immigration controls . |
| 15 | ‘ We do n't want Anjou here , interfering in England 's affairs . |
| 16 | The parties also called on the governments of South Africa and Zaïre to desist from interfering in Angola 's internal affairs . |
| 17 | Instantly sparks crackled in Twoflower 's hair and there was a sudden gust of hot dry wind that did n't disturb the dust in the way that ordinary wind should but , instead , whipped it up momentarily into unpleasantly half-living shapes before it settled again . |
| 18 | She says she was attacked in Swindon 's Tesco superstore . |
| 19 | That there are no hybrid statements which defy classification is a crucial ‘ dogma ’ — one of the two radically attacked in Quine 's ‘ Two Dogmas of Empiricism ’ . |
| 20 | ' ( The last phrase is omitted in Smith 's quotation of this passage , which omission somewhat alters its significance . ) |
| 21 | He launched a strong defence of the achievements of the past 13 years of Conservative rule and warned voters not to ‘ fall in Labour 's trap ’ and ‘ sleepwalk ’ into the election . |
| 22 | Background to this conundrum lies in Jim 's invitation on behalf of Scottish Nuclear 's Dry Store team to their opposite numbers in GEC/Alsthom for an 8-a-side golf match at North Berwick . |
| 23 | It lies in prisoners ' peculiar vulnerability . |
| 24 | The answer lies in India 's recent wasted years , for which Mr Gandhi was partly responsible . |
| 25 | He went on to say that another enduring reality lies in America 's interests across the Atlantic — expanding the definition of across-the-Atlantic to include the Middle East , both because of its considerable economic resources and because it was home to some of ‘ our closest friends ’ . |
| 26 | The reconciliation lies in Peirce 's view of ‘ science ’ and its relation to common sense . |
| 27 | The dubious part of the claim lies in Moore 's belief that beautiful objects with their beauty and the qualities which make them beautiful , could exist without any consciousness of them . |
| 28 | The interest of the episode lies in Gloucester 's ability to command his brother 's men , even in controversial assignments . |
| 29 | The interest of the episode lies in Gloucester 's ability to command his brother 's men , even in controversial assignments . |
| 30 | If there is a standard of comparison for the USSR 's wartime losses , it lies in McNamara 's statistics , rather than in our experience of the Second World War . |