Example sentences of "[vb base] in [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discipline means having an agenda , starting and finishing the meeting when you said you would , answering the client 's questions with authority ( and if you can not give an answer , say you do not know but you will find out ) ; having your paperwork neat and easily at hand ; offering the best hospitality you can provide , such as telephones , a cup of coffee , a comfortable chair and a pad and pencil in case he did n't bring his own . |
| 2 | But I do not think it was open to them to state a sum constituting the … deficit and then say in effect they were not sure if the sum was correct . |
| 3 | But actually ’ — Agnes 's voice became pure Oxford ( the university not the town ) — ‘ that was just Track One was n't it ? — cover in case we noticed anything on Track Two which was a small destabilisation group . |
| 4 | Erm b but there was no reason why we should sit in wait in case they might go up because they might have gone down further . |
| 5 | When we look in detail we find — it would be worrying if we did n't — that the convergence is not total . |
| 6 | It is covered in ivy by day and by night in mystery and when I lie in bed I see men and women through it passing by . |
| 7 | Everything that he greatly cares about demands order , proportion , measure and control In poetry he considers decorum the grand masterpiece . |
| 8 | you know in case he were ill |
| 9 | once you get in bed you 'll be like |
| 10 | that Jackie will tell you the same , I told her mother anything from thirty to forty years ago I said , that do n't matter some toss what political power they get in power you 'll find the unions will run the country |
| 11 | ‘ If we get in front we wo n't make the same mistake of lying back and letting them in as we did in Belfast , ’ said captain and centre back Alan McDonald ( Queens Park Rangers ) . |
| 12 | If they get in front it is difficult to contain them . ’ |
| 13 | From the foregoing work that Tim Grant and I set in motion I believe that we have gained certain value . |
| 14 | As you gain in confidence you and the children will probably soon find that there is never enough time to do all the things you want to do . |
| 15 | On the other hand , what they gain in power they lose in speed and mobility . |
| 16 | The remainder comes mostly from the countries around the Mediterranean , but what the original almond growers lack in quantity they apparently make up for in quality . |
| 17 | What they lack in brawn they make up for in skill . |
| 18 | I 'm not sending him there I 'll have to get Geoff to tell you about the story of , you know erm drama he says is pretty bad because , I mean in drama you sort of mess about any way do n't ya ? |
| 19 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 20 | Yes , it may be , I mean in fact he he was some problems by Gooch because he , Gooch put a man at deep sort of mid wicket or square leg another one back there to stop him hooking . |
| 21 | I mean in fact I write in reasonably free verse , but there are all sorts of purposes , especially satiric purposes , for which rhyme is still very important . |
| 22 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 23 | Anyway , it 's not a matter for us I know , that er depending on where you sit in conference you can have difficulty seeing the no smoking signs , but I 've every confidence you 're gon na take my word for this . |
| 24 | Appearance fits , though I suppose in court I could n't swear for stone-cold certain . |
| 25 | I suppose in theory I could be lying through my teeth and have some other reason for wanting to go to Strathspeld — maybe I 'm just getting homesick for Scotland — but I 'm certain he knows that I 'm not lying and that there is a body ; I think he can see it in my eyes . |
| 26 | You know I 'm I 'm spending money and time on him that really I suppose in theory I would be spending on my own grandchildren . |
| 27 | well I suppose in front we 've got two dozen roses I should think , could be more |
| 28 | Just turning briefly to the issue of affordable housing , you 'll see from my H One submissions the City Council has a target , er which is in the the York area housing strategy , which is currently with the D O E for its consideration , of something like a hundred and fifty dwellings a year , giving over the fifteen year period a two thousand two hundred target , how we will go about achieving that is primarily , where it 's possible using land we already own , or is in ownership of housing associations , and taking into account the the seven dwellings outside the current city boundary , we believe in total they will contribute some fifteen hundred dwellings towards that two thousand two hundred target , this will leave clearly a significant shortfall , and it will therefore be necessary to seek to negotiate , if I can use the terms of P B G 3 erm with house builders as sites come forward in in the local during the local plan period . |
| 29 | He concluded by saying that if you believe in God you have to find other ways to convince people that He exists , and that was not something to be discussed in this lesson . |
| 30 | Yes that 's right er I er believe in fact I know because the Duke says so in the Racing Post today the reason he 's gone there is to get Adrian Maguire because Adrian has ridden him already in Ireland and the owner wanting to stick with Maguire which you ca n't blame him for |