Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked why she allowed the computer so to dominate in this way , she replied ‘ It 's the first time they have been quiet for a whole week ! ’ , reflecting the second cause in the list above . |
| 2 | ‘ No means no , my brother/Are you deaf in your ear , motherfucker ? ’ , is the chorus , catchy enough to stick in the minds of youthful listeners . |
| 3 | ‘ No more games , ’ he said roughly , as he finally had to draw his mouth away to drag in a quick snatch of breath . |
| 4 | ‘ I have not come to the North-East just to play in the FA Cup , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The elimination of Australian Dave Macaulay and Hawaiian Derek Ho , who would have had to win to keep their hopes alive , means that with one contest still to run in the Hawaiian Triple Crown he can no longer be overhauled . |
| 6 | The disabled lobby in the arts must take credit for the work they have done in making galleries more accessible , but there is a great deal more to do in order to encourage and demonstrate the creative talents of older people that undoubtedly exist . |
| 7 | I was kept in a cell overnight to appear in court the next morning . |
| 8 | If there is a distinction between a failure to consent and a refusal of consent , it is because a refusal can take the form of a declaration of intention never to consent in the future or never to consent in some future circumstances . |
| 9 | It is on behalf of the latter that we should have had an opportunity of voting in Committee , which we were denied , and that we should have an opportunity tonight to vote in the House . |
| 10 | I 've been retired from playing for five years , although this season I messed about a bit just to keep in touch with what was going on , and I really do think that someone else should have the honour of captaining the team . |
| 11 | Labour 's National Investment Bank , operating on strictly commercial lines , will bring public and private sector together to invest in long-term regional and national infrastructure projects . |
| 12 | There 's a lot of work still to do in the barn . |
| 13 | ‘ There is a lot of work still to do in this match and we must concentrate on getting the right total in our second innings . |
| 14 | Just one more law hard to argue in court . |
| 15 | Mushtaq , bowling with the breeze behind him , dispatched Hick with a perfect legbreak and then hit Smith 's stumps as he tried to glance , a round-the-legs dismissal almost to rank in shuddering significance for England with Peter May 's notorious ‘ b Benaud 0 ’ at Manchester in 1961 . |
| 16 | So dependence on the mother leads the child actively to believe in what is essentially a dishonesty on her part . |
| 17 | TWO GREAT British pop institutions , both of whom are maverick enough to belong in an institution . |
| 18 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |
| 19 | ‘ I wanted it ’ , he concluded the note already quoted , ‘ because I saw no other weapon then to use in the fight against unemployment . ’ |
| 20 | You can protect your right either to stay in your home , or to realise your share in its ownership . |
| 21 | She had made it halfway before deciding to come up for air , turning her face upwards as she broke the surface only to collide in a tangle of arms and legs , with a strong , masculine body . |
| 22 | The adults are viviparous , producing active microfilariae that rest in the lungs during the day only to appear in the peripheral blood at night when the culex mosquito host is active . |
| 23 | May I ask my hon. Friend nevertheless to keep in touch with the health authority in Cornwall ? |
| 24 | There is a great weight of paper still to come in the file . |
| 25 | Miller 's Catalogue of Plants at the Physic Garden ( 1730 ) listed alba , canina , damascena and rubra — a quartet also to appear in the Dictionary 's Catalogue of Medicinal Plants — and in this respect the last was the most important . |
| 26 | And then there 's just your vest now to go in the same drawer as your jumper . |
| 27 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 28 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 29 | Two Springbok officials , Nick Labuschagne ( Natal ) and Louis Luyt ( Transvaal ) , are in Wellington this week privately to assist in putting South African point of view to interested parties . |
| 30 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |