Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Smith — a pessimist — starts to worry in case it rains , the car breaks down , they are plagued by insects or one of the children gets lost . |
| 2 | Under the scrutiny of Hayward and Browne , he began to revise and concentrate his verse — after the problems with The Family Reunion , he wished to use only poetry which met the test of " strict dramatic utility " although at a later date he was to worry in case he had strayed too close to the drama of Frederick Lonsdale . |
| 3 | Discipline means having an agenda , starting and finishing the meeting when you said you would , answering the client 's questions with authority ( and if you can not give an answer , say you do not know but you will find out ) ; having your paperwork neat and easily at hand ; offering the best hospitality you can provide , such as telephones , a cup of coffee , a comfortable chair and a pad and pencil in case he did n't bring his own . |
| 4 | Goff recollects him saying that he felt in danger of being left behind because whilst exciting things were happening in art he was not being allowed to develop . |
| 5 | When he returned to Africa to work in journalism it was to the Gold Coast he came in 1934 . |
| 6 | And again to spell that out erm the way it needs to work in practice I believe is that in its local plan a local authority should be able to define a site which it would regard as suitable for development only for these strategically important reasons . |
| 7 | Love does not delight in evil he actually feels bad about forgetting , |
| 8 | Well don do n't stick it under there cos it 'll get forgotten in fact I 'll take it upstairs . |
| 9 | But it was claimed in court she was not a drug dealer . |
| 10 | Miss Ann Curnow , QC , for Danny Palmer , in mitigation asked the judge to bear in mind his desperately unhappy background . |
| 11 | To make the shed easy to dismantle in case we moved house , the timbers were fixed with right-angled brackets , screwed between the roof timbers and the studs on the inside . |
| 12 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 13 | The legend of the Dent vampire is in all probability nothing more than an elaborate leg-pull , but it 's worth relating in case you have n't heard it before . |
| 14 | Her progress had been one of near-collisions , dodging round cases and people , and just as the gate she 'd wanted had come in sight she had seen Lori and a man passing through . |
| 15 | But I do not think it was open to them to state a sum constituting the … deficit and then say in effect they were not sure if the sum was correct . |
| 16 | He 'd certainly succeeded in firing hers . |
| 17 | ‘ If we prevent children dying in infancy they will just grow up to have children of their own and population will increase even faster . ’ |
| 18 | She sat very still , letting his words flow over her , not daring to comment in case she said something stupid and broke his mood . |
| 19 | But the company accepts in effect it has just five weeks to find half a million pounds . |
| 20 | More recent evidence suggests , however , that while it lives in woodland it actually hunts over nearby open areas ( Glue & Hammond , 1974 ; Yalden , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | In the last second before the knifing pain in her chest forced her to breath in water she found the dangling mouthpiece , and pushed it back between her teeth . |
| 22 | When the bus got caught in traffic they dashed off it and ran through a nearby Russell and Bromley shoe store . |
| 23 | When applying in advance you may indicate a start date ( eg birthday ) . |
| 24 | An envelope , addressed in handwriting she did n't know , arrived in the post : inside , she found a photocopied article from a back number of an American academic journal , and a postcard reproduction of a painting by Klimt . |
| 25 | Elizabeth and I used with amusement to look at each other 's horoscope in the newspapers , but without credulity : I explained to her that even if one believed in astrology they must be regarded as nonsense , being entirely unscientific and paying no attention to the hour of birth and therefore to the ‘ rising sign ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ For the hundreds of thousands of Scottish families living in poverty it will mean fuel bills they can not afford , or the prospect of disconnection . |
| 27 | I have n't made it so far , look at me , I 'm living in luxury I am , I 've got lots of money to spend |
| 28 | It 's , it 's living in harmony I suppose will be the word you know the , the environment sort of moves in to the power station and does n't get attacked , everywhere else gets attacked you know , people scrub up the weeds in the garden and things like that , here they 're allowed to grow , the butterflies come in , insects , great you know just , just love it . |
| 29 | Well if they 've applied in time they can get a p postal vote . |
| 30 | When applied in practice it may be short or long , structured or open-ended , teacher-directed or pupil-operated , subject-specific or interdisciplinary , individualized or class-based . |