Example sentences of "[verb] britain in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best will be representing Britain in the Paralympics in the Summer . |
| 2 | A week later back in Vancouver , when Canada joined Britain in the war against Germany and Italy , I applied to the RCAF recruiting office for a commission , in view of my earlier flying experience . |
| 3 | THE LONG and winding road that Jo Durie 's career has followed over the past 10 years , took another nasty twist yesterday when she missed the chance to keep Britain in the Federation Cup . |
| 4 | To represent Britain in the way I 'm doing , to me that 's just as good as fighting in the war . |
| 5 | ‘ Tory laws have put Britain in the dock alongside Chile and Korea and all those nasty dictatorships that everybody here despises , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 7 | If the protest , to be heard before today 's 25-mile inshore race , goes against Cyclone it will put Britain in the lead . |
| 8 | This formed part of a defence line erected to defend Britain in the event of a German establishment of a beach head in Cornwall . |