Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] in " in BNC.

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1 What differences follow , for example , from the young Elvis Presley starting out from printed song-copies but slowly transforming them in lengthy sessions in Sam Phillips 's Sun studio , as against Lennon and McCartney taking mostly orally worked-out ideas to George Martin who then might transform them through literate methods — for instance , the addition of written parts ?
2 Instead , she guides him to check his suggestion and when he realises that he is not successful , she skilfully involves him in the final solution to the problem .
3 He could n't go on seeing her in the circumstances .
4 She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer .
5 We eventually sold it in 1972 for £35 and bought an ancient wood-trimmed Morris Traveller , but no car as been as dear to us as Curtis .
6 Build a boat , and go on building it in spite of the cost to your reputation .
7 If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside .
8 Despite the Encomiast 's tale of how Cnut 's men , searching far and wide for a suitable wife , eventually found her in Normandy , it may be , as Keynes has argued , that Emma had remained in England throughout .
9 Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’
10 I think I would actually like to pursue that point Group Captain but I I think I 'd rather pursue it in in the closed session than an open session .
11 What right has he in me , but such as a thief may plead to stolen goods ?
12 The good old pre-Taylor Report surge occured , I was flung about fifteen foot in the air , the soap box splintered , my dad acrobatically caught me in his teeth , and this big evil looking bloke got a nail in his leg from the now flattened soapbox.It was better than staying up late to watch an American Werewolf in London.The rest is history , and I 've been going ever since .
13 Vic swings on to the motorway , going north-west , and for a few miles gives the Jaguar its head , moving smoothly up the outside lane at 90 , keeping a watchful eye on the rear-view mirror , though the police rarely bother you in the rush hour , they are as eager as anyone to keep the traffic flowing .
14 The Viennese modernists , Klimt , von Hofmannsthal , Hoffmann , Moser , had only joined them in this acceptance .
15 I am delighted you are able to call in to see us in Welshpool on Thursday morning next week ( the 25th June ) .
16 ‘ Yes , ’ she said , again , as though it were the most reasonable thing in the world , but she saw that her mother looked worried , and that doubtless Papa was behaving as he did because he had been worried about her , his darling , whom he had sent away from him , only to lose her in a foreign country — for that was what Britain was .
17 If we wish , we can establish one melody for the first verse and merely repeat it in the others , possibly varying some factor such as accompaniment , volume , colour , etc .
18 Rickie suddenly asked me in what purported to be a tone of serious enquiry .
19 It was easy enough to spot them in the distance if they were in a clearing on the mountainside , but extremely difficult to detect them as Abdullahi and I approached through a tangle of giant heath that rose far above our heads .
20 Ibn Battuta was lucky enough to see it in its prime :
21 At this stage we merely introduce them in passing ; we will return to them in greater detail later on .
22 I get it , I get it every time I come into one of these but I I hope that I 've got it in got them in formation .
23 Exporters can raise prices in sterling terms ( so maintaining them in foreign currency terms ) without losing competitiveness .
24 The generally massive expansion in financial services , the ‘ Big Bang ’ , the LDDC 's location close to the City , £400 million of public-sector support in the first five years of existence and its extensive powers to acquire land , all placed it in an exceptionally favourable situation .
25 You want to avoid getting them in the wrong order or dropping them , so number them in the top corner , and link them together with a tag .
26 Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores .
27 Anyway , I got through to the finals , that was really nerve-racking , and my mum and my boyfriend came along to see me in it .
28 THERE are times when life not only kicks you in the teeth , but follows up with the knee in the groin and the rabbit punch to the back of the neck as well .
29 And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow .
30 so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale
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