Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amdahl Corp is cutting 9% of its staff worldwide , 600 of them to go in California , and will take a hit of between $15m and $20m against figures to cover it . |
| 2 | She had no doubt it would be a very bad idea for them to go in search of Oliver and Cobalt . |
| 3 | To help them think in advance about the issues , members undertook pre-work relating to the quality Improvement Process and its state of progress in their domain . |
| 4 | The Malays were an urban community many of whom lived in Colombo and Hambantota . |
| 5 | They were most likely to be men , aged 20 to 24 , many of whom lived in Scotland . |
| 6 | Similarly , 4414 West Ham residents worked at Tate & Lyle 's sugar refineries , 4171 ( 94.5 per cent ) of whom lived in Canning Town or Plaistow , while of the 3880 employed at the LNER locomotive works , 3444 ( 88.8 per cent ) lived in Stratford or Forest Gate . |
| 7 | Wealth is only desirable in so far as it enables them to indulge in litigation , and the height of their ambition is to succeed in a case , especially if thereby their enemy is punished . ’ |
| 8 | We have all felt the frustration of dealing with institutions and bureaucracy — receiving the institutional brush off , the failure to generate a spark of interest or concern , knowing that nothing will be done and nothing change in response to your grievance . |
| 9 | Each one of them exterminated in Sobibor , the photograph fluttering into a pile of a thousand personal papers and documents with tens of thousands of spectacles and hundreds of thousands of shoes and boots — to be salvaged or burnt and either way lost for ever . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd far sooner watch Big Tom And The Mainliners making a balls of some country'n'western song with their toupees on crooked and them singing in Monaghan accents . |
| 11 | Conservationists have expressed concern over the future of Britain 's peatlands because a deal aimed at preserving them agreed in January 1992 [ see ED 55 ] has still not been signed and could be abandoned . |
| 12 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 13 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 14 | It was a common experience for me to fall in love with love and then be led up the garden path , only to be rejected and mocked . |
| 15 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 16 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |
| 17 | These holy men , whose sanctity was often clear from the miracles which God had allowed them to perform in life , had in death entered his presence . |
| 18 | In order for the exception under article 11 to come into operation so as to relieve drivers and those who permit them to drive in excess of the hours which are prescribed there must be a real emergency . |
| 19 | Thus , it is not for me to sit in judgement upon Daniel Miller . |
| 20 | No : if we want them to fall in love with us , we 'll just have to ignore them , and hope they do n't go away . |
| 21 | It also meant that there was little incentive for them to invest in Britain since it was more profitable for them to invest in countries where profit margins were higher . |
| 22 | It also meant that there was little incentive for them to invest in Britain since it was more profitable for them to invest in countries where profit margins were higher . |
| 23 | It 's not just me trusting in God , but it 's God trusting in me . |
| 24 | However they might have trouble finding adjectives to do these performances justice : his breathtaking virtuosity , which takes appalling difficulties of the music in its stride , at times had me bogeared in admiration . |
| 25 | They erm well apparently he said a few of them got in trouble he said , and heads had to roll and one of them was his ! |
| 26 | As he moved upon her , the mutual warmth as their thighs made contact caused them to groan in ecstasy . |
| 27 | This convention retained something of the laconic style of drafting of its Latin American predecessors , and like them applied in principle to both the service of documents and the taking of evidence . |
| 28 | After some years the designs from the Empire influenced fashionable people in their taste , and Roman style bronze brooches and bangles , some of them made in Britain , were worn by the men and women of prosperous families . |
| 29 | Newman , what was the weather like when me met in Lübeck ? ’ |
| 30 | One possible way of getting round the problem of the ‘ doorstep ’ explanation is to write a letter to people in the sample to let them know in advance of the survey and the coming call by an interviewer . |