Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 2 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 3 | Everyone has to join in the charade : ah , what a good family we are ! |
| 4 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 5 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 6 | Nothing has happened in the interim to alter substantially the conclusion of Mr Attlee 's Engine Room that |
| 7 | Despite government and party documents since the early 1980s accepting much of Komarek 's argument , nothing has changed in the structure of the economy . |
| 8 | Nothing has changed in the bedrock of Japanese industry to cause this . |
| 9 | But absolutely nothing has changed in the way we work or how our customers place their orders and run their businesses . |
| 10 | Something no-one has done in a balloon before . |
| 11 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 12 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 13 | I became engaged in a violent battle , first on behalf of the profession and subsequently as a mediator , when Mrs Barbara Castle — then the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security — pursued an honourable , but in my view misguided , determination to eradicate private practice from this country . |
| 14 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 15 | So do you know when you do you know when you erm I mean lived in the flats in the flats for fifteen years , have you managed to make many friends ? |
| 16 | It has n't all been smooth running of course , I mean working in a parliament with eighty separate national political delegations , working in t nine languages , I have to admit we 've made the odd slip . |
| 17 | I do n't have time to play but , I mean to play in a concert band or anything but I might go and knock about with it for a while . |
| 18 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 19 | That 's what I intend to use in the eh . |
| 20 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 21 | I sit shivering in the armchair in this first-floor flat in Deptford , and I feel I 'm still trapped in a cupboard , listening for strange noises , till I realize they are the last images of the dream , slipping away like ghost bodies melting on the floor . |
| 22 | ( Stone 1988 : 246 ) ( " Though he did what one would normally find inconceivable for someone to risk doing in a city full of idols … " ) |
| 23 | ‘ You know I got injured in the skirmishing ? |
| 24 | I always thought I got cast in The Graduate because I was one of the last ones to be seen . |
| 25 | I got boil in the bag fish tomorrow . |
| 26 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 27 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 28 | ‘ I was just coming home when I got hit in the engine . |
| 29 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 30 | ‘ It was in Kabul that I got caught in a safe house , ’ another term he 'll always think of differently , ‘ by the secret police and I was put in prison . |