Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that pleasure was tinged with sadness because his mother , Joanna , is n't alive to see him in a role he might have been born to play . |
| 2 | The outer leaves are very important for the effect of the painting , especially against the sky , whereas it is possible to lose myself in the inner masses to some extent . |
| 3 | When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey . |
| 4 | What 's that make it in four weeks ? |
| 5 | Suddenly , in July 1945 , with the successful testing of the atomic bomb , the Allied found themselves in possession of the means to cut short the war . |
| 6 | ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’ |
| 7 | It was odd to find him in charge of such a low-level enterprise as the Vadinamian protection racket . |
| 8 | That chilled me in a way I ca n't properly describe . |
| 9 | That stopped her in her tracks . |
| 10 | Associative and cognitive theories present two major examples of different approaches to the study of learning , and although they differ in very many respects it is possible to synthesise them in a way that offers guidance for teachers . |
| 11 | Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper . |
| 12 | That is why you have someone with a clapperboard at the start of each take : to make it possible to find everything in the whole length of film . |
| 13 | If there was no shot in or among the human remains , in the cavities of the skull for instance , would it be possible to find it in the soil , among the sand and gravel and pine needles ? |
| 14 | Dr Mackintosh had left for the weekend , but Dr Lange , the literary one , would be free to see him in the morning . |
| 15 | I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office . |
| 16 | We like walking so we bought a second-hand backpack for him which has proved to be a lot more useful — it 's much easier to carry him in it . |
| 17 | Of the latter he wrote , ‘ Lucas van Leyden is an artist of frailer calibre than Dürer , and prone to lose himself in imitation of stronger men , each of his contemporaries in turn dominating his style . ’ |
| 18 | It was interesting to see everybody in their own clothes . |
| 19 | I thought it would be much easier to see her in those sort of surroundings . |
| 20 | Some rattled on the glass , some got her in the face , some spurted into the room . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All this involves him in a vast amount of estate business as well as , he says with a mixture of relish and despair , ‘ this desperate business of patronage ’ . |
| 23 | This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists . |
| 24 | This involves me in some paperwork , which , however tedious … |
| 25 | This led him in 1935 to discuss a newly ‘ discovered ’ agricultural Papuan tribe , the description of whose civilization Eliot utilized to criticize what he saw as some of the indulgences of his own inorganic civilization during the unemployment of the thirties . |
| 26 | UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots … |
| 27 | It may be easier to implement it in a raster environment , but much would depend on the size of the rasters chosen to represent the areas . |
| 28 | It was his passionate conviction that sarvodaya , which might be regarded as a practical expression of Truth , could only be effected by means of ahi sā , and the votary of ahi sā would be prepared to sacrifice himself in order to realize this ideal . |
| 29 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |
| 30 | We hope that many practitioners will be willing to support us in this effort . |