Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It lies in prisoners ' peculiar vulnerability . |
| 3 | - Buses in the morning and afternoon are suddenly full of children , traffic jams are caused by cars containing family groups and signs appear in tobacconists ' shops : ‘ Sorry , No More Than One Schoolchild In Here At A Time , Put Your Arms Up and Stand Against The Wall To Be Searched When Requested . |
| 4 | Trouble was with old miners , they tended to exaggerate — a gleam of mineral seen decades previously often became transmogrified in mens ' minds to a wonderful thickness , be it lead , copper , tin , gold , or whatever . |
| 5 | The kinds of difficulties that we encountered in Poulantzas ' work continually crop up , and the tacit use of counterfactuals which rely on individualist premises is a perennial stumbling block . |
| 6 | The concepts of theme/rheme and given/new are supplemented in Firbas ' model with a non-binary notion that determines which elements are thematic and which are not thematic in a clause . |
| 7 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
| 8 | it was last sunday that frank got the message from HW that he was not included in leeds ' future plans . |
| 9 | The lowest earners , seldom included in employers ' pension provision and among whom women predominated , were excluded from the graduated scheme . |
| 10 | The Director of Studies expressed an interest in how much three dimensional ( 3D ) work was included in pupils ' experience and was dissatisfied with what he was told . |
| 11 | 8.3.2 the date ( if any ) upon which the Premises are relet This provision is frequently included in guarantors ' covenants , probably to cover the position where the landlord has no objection to taking back the premises with a view to a future letting , but in the meantime to secure some form of rental income . |
| 12 | Mike Teague ( who now has a knee , as well as a shoulder , injury ) is doubtful but Will Carling , the captain , says he will be fit despite being concussed in Harlequins ' win over London Irish . |
| 13 | All the elements which were to appear in Watkins ' ley thesis , and others , were present in these earlier and contemporary researches : remains of old , straight tracks , churches on older pagan sites , beacons , meridional lines and astronomical orientation . |
| 14 | It was of some length and contained a number of obiter dicta about the obvious gravity of the crisis through which the nation had passed , the less obvious but equally searching crisis which it still faced , the dangers of living in fools ' paradises and believing that there could be play without work , the crushing burden of debt , and the responsibilities of the wealthy classes . |
| 15 | The numbers presented in companies ' annual financial statements are , in part , the result of accounting policy choices by their managements . |
| 16 | It was a masterly synthesis of the ancient Roman ideal of a ruler ( as presented in Suetonius ' Lives of the Caesars ) and a new Christian ideal of the ruler as a generous builder of churches and a devout man of prayer ( though Einhard was careful to avoid hagiographical over-piety ) . |
| 17 | The principle of specific entry as applied in Sears ' recommends that as specific a heading as is available in the list should be assigned . |
| 18 | On Monday 18th June sixty people met in Painters ' Hall in the City to take part in a ‘ tutored wine tasting ’ of sparkling wines , under the most knowledgeable guidance of Pamela Vandyke Price , author and wine journalist of fabulous expertise , whose distinctions include having been the first woman admitted on equal terms into the male-dominated world of wine . |
| 19 | It is true that the problem of the balance of power between social classes and organs represented a more vital problem in modern Europe than it had done in Polybius ' Rome . |
| 20 | I emerged from the bathroom a half an hour later in a cloud of Amplex Aerosol avalanched in Boots ' 365 Talcum . |
| 21 | However , civil servants may appear in magistrates ' courts as prosecutors without violating this restrictive practice . |
| 22 | Even if this is true — and it is disputed by animal and human studies — the argument overlooks the fact that reproductive defects may appear in workers ' female children . |
| 23 | Moreover , suspicion may grow in agents ' minds during t - 1 that the government may be on the verge of an about turn on employment policy . |
| 24 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 25 | The president 's television addresses activated grass-roots support in members ' districts , but administration strategists were not content to leave the matter there . |
| 26 | There seems no class of men and women , no circumstance of life , that is not embraced in Andrewes ' intercessions . |
| 27 | Candlesticks filed into pieces and collected in ladies ' stockings had served for canister for a while , but had been swiftly exhausted . |
| 28 | A substantial chapter on deixis occurs in Levinson 's Pragmatics ( 1983 ) , and still the most thorough analysis occurs in Lyons ' Semantics : Volume 2 ( 1977 ) . |
| 29 | As far as I know , the first actual record of an objective mechanical test , which had results of practical consequence , occurs in Pepys ' diary for 4 June 1662 . |
| 30 | She was damp , she was sore from scrubbing with the shower mitt , her hair hung in rats ' tails . |