Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 2 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 3 | Others lay them in the stems , in the roots or in buds . |
| 4 | And wrapt me in a gown . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're gon na gang bang them in the drive-ins , Harry . |
| 6 | Once a bank purchases such bills it can hold the bills to maturity or sell them in a secondary market to any other bank(s) . |
| 7 | First of all , he could borrow dollars from the Fritz Bank and sell them in the spot market for DMs . |
| 8 | At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market . |
| 9 | In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share . |
| 10 | The idea took off and now Dunkin' Donuts , who sell them in an amazing 31 flavours , say ‘ holes ’ are one of their most popular lines . |
| 11 | " We 're going to carry the yew berries home in our mouths and eat them in the great burrow . |
| 12 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 13 | I see , you criticize my appearance , and then you stab me in the back ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Bring me in a cuppa , Debbie , will you ? ’ |
| 16 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 17 | This would still be so even if Members of Parliament were persuaded to settle issues with Health Authorities and not raise them in the House of Commons when dissatisfied . |
| 18 | That has never been seen as a constituent of self regulation , and I doubt whether any government would be willing to divert so many responsibilities already assigned to other existing bodies ( for example , the Medical Research Council and the Committee on Safety of Medicines ) — better qualified to carry them out — and concentrate them in the GMC alone under the sole control of the profession . |
| 19 | The tubers should n't touch each other — sit them in the hollows of egg boxes , ‘ eyes ’ upwards in a cool , frost-free place with some light . |
| 20 | To solve a problem the student must recall the relevant concepts and rules and combine them in a way that satisfies the principles of good practice . |
| 21 | We will now develop these themes and combine them in a systematic way to construct an improved understanding of the relationship between daily life and the nation state . |
| 22 | Linguists belonging to the Prague School by and large conflate the two structures and combine them in the same description . |
| 23 | When they did n't have a gang to fight they 'd run after me , take off my trousers and hide them in a bush . |
| 24 | Us kids were highly amused at all this , but I was distracted from the fun by Frankie who suggested that we gather up the bottles and hide them in the washhouse before they all got broken . |
| 25 | If I betrayed the pact between myself and The Fat Controller he would undoubtedly destroy me , fillet me , excarnate me in the screaming void . |
| 26 | The map user can select features of interest from the digital map and display them in a way that is suited to his or her requirements . |
| 27 | The letter expressed the CPSU 's ‘ deep anxiety for the fate of socialism in Poland ’ , regretted that the necessary measures had not been taken against domestic anti-Soviet and anti-socialist forces , and called upon the Polish party to ‘ reverse the course of events and channel them in the right direction ’ . |
| 28 | Cut two white holes in it , then send them in the bank , it 'll be chocolate ! |
| 29 | Rinse the lentils in a sieve under running water , then place them in a large saucepan with all the remaining ingredients except the salt . |
| 30 | Shake the cannellini beans dry , then place them in a bowl . |