Example sentences of "[verb] in this country [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As rather over 5,000 gliders were built in this country it was not possible for ‘ experts ’ to inspect them all continually so Mark Pryor issued instructions that he should be informed if they stank . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ If all doors are closed in this country I would play abroad and I will give 100 per cent wherever I play . |
| 3 | ‘ When a baby is born in this country he is swaddled . |
| 4 | The why the Pakistanis can vote in this country they 've got a British passport . |
| 5 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |
| 6 | ‘ Whilst the German idea looks very attractive the NFA have examined it and believe in this country it would be impractical , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Arriving in this country they established themselves as farmers and in the early 19th century they farmed at Allington Castle and then travelled through various parts of England as farmers until arriving back in Kent . |
| 8 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 9 | When rabbits were first released in this country they were freed into man-made warrens — artificial holes covered over with a pyramid of cordwood which in turn was covered with faggots . |