Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is good news to anyone who has witnessed the way art museums have come to regard paintings and other objects placed in their perpetual trust as a kind of stock portfolio that can be traded at will . |
| 2 | The soft , shy fingers quivered in her palms , the half-formed flower of a mouth tasted of the spring and the sun . |
| 3 | Continued to support elderly owner occupiers to remain in their own homes . |
| 4 | WHEN walking across the upland fells of Britain , it is not uncommon to find the whitened jawbone of a long-dead sheep , teeth rattling in its sockets . |
| 5 | He grinned , white teeth flashing in his tanned face . |
| 6 | It was dragging him towards it through the stair-rails , its claws fastened in his flesh . |
| 7 | We are situated on a tiny island out in the middle of the Persian Gulf and do not have the luxury of soft green surfaces to indulge in our love of playing the great game . |
| 8 | It is open to the local planning authorities to include in their development plans such policies as they consider appropriate . |
| 9 | I had to kneel on the floor to reach it and her fingers fastened in my hair . |
| 10 | She smiles , and two dimples appear in her pasty cheeks , still shiny from last night 's application of face cream . |
| 11 | Her small white teeth drew in her upper lip as his hand stroked so erotically , his thumb tracing circles of white heat . |
| 12 | These will include : Does the scheme comply with the policies contained in its local plan ? |
| 13 | It saddens me that , while most annual reports say ‘ … we will do our utmost to preserve our most important asset : the skills contained in our workforce ’ , when I visit the workplace I see the tell-tale signs of accidents in the making — blocked exits , unguarded machines , untrained work people . |
| 14 | Maggie moaned ecstatically as his thumb teased the tight , dark nipple that pressed sharply against the thin skin and her arms slid around his neck , her fingers lacing in his black hair as she kissed him back wildly . |
| 15 | CAPENHURST anglers did n't hook any whoppers , but they did manage to net enough tiddlers to ensure that the scales tipped in their favour in a challenge match against the Greyhound Angling Club from Chester . |
| 16 | Many authorities provide in their Standing Orders for the attendance of councillors at meetings of committees of which they are not members where they have a particular interest in certain matters on the agenda . |
| 17 | Until then much of the usefulness of these accessories lies in their exploitation of an underused resource rather than a dramatic step forward . |
| 18 | Tutilo came to life with a shudder and a start , golden flames kindling in his eyes . |
| 19 | The neurotoxins contained in its thousands of little venomous darts are strong enough to cause both extreme pain and sometimes even death . |
| 20 | At various points Pemell 's book on children directs the reader to fuller discussions contained in his earlier publications . |
| 21 | The main attraction of pluralist approaches to the study of political phenomena lies in their catholicism . |
| 22 | The challenge to the ‘ … purist aesthetics of modernism ’ issued by these contemporary women artists lies in their willingness to use paint to reference the interplay between emotional , intellectual , cultural and social facets of lived reality . |
| 23 | The waiter recognised him and Sandison spent five minutes explaining in his ragged Italian about his change of hats . |
| 24 | Leonora quivered , her teeth caught in her lower lip as he kissed each breast in turn , his lips lingering over their slight curves . |
| 25 | As I trudge my way home through the city streets The cats and the houses retreat And a thunder of hooves beats in my mind And I gallop through acres of wheat . |
| 26 | Plus what an EC an on certain dry-cleaning solvents will mean and the dangers lurking in your local swimming pool . |
| 27 | The percentage of all rape cases reported in our sample of newspapers increased from a steady 25 per cent over the two decades , 1951 to 1971 , to very nearly 40 per cent in 1978 . |
| 28 | Contemporaries differed in their view of the overall effect of the Settlement Laws on the mobility of the labouring poor . |
| 29 | The two men spent two hours trapped in their Ford Sierra on the M-40 at Tetsworth . |
| 30 | In addition to developing his own tricks and illusions , Maskelyne was important as an impresario , booking guest performers to appear in his show , and many successful magicians began their careers at the Egyptian Hall : one who never performed there was Houdini , who wrote asking for an engagement in 1898 , before he became famous , and was refused . |