Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone sits quietly in the room and the leader draws an imaginary circle with a finger and says ‘ Here I have the wonderful magic circle and I sign it with a dot . |
| 2 | For all the world as if she and Miss Beard were ladies of quality , he ceremoniously handed them into the carriage , the two of them to sit together in the back , while Herbert Fraser sat beside Sean in the front . |
| 3 | It was an angle that caused them to fall apart in the end . |
| 4 | The use of acrylic colours in my palette allows me in all aspects of landscape painting to correct and add light ; in fact it enables me to work more in the manner of an oil painter . |
| 5 | The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality . |
| 6 | But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’ |
| 7 | I eat alone in the dining room and the next morning set off early back to Mr Shah 's hotel . |
| 8 | Rather as it looked when I lay there in the dark , wedged between the changed Herta and the cold wall , in full confidence of erotic failure . |
| 9 | I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too . |
| 10 | You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate . |
| 11 | As I sit here in the dark in , what is , after all , an artist 's home , writing by the light of the overhead lamp , I can see the shapes and colours and forms and the old excited feelings are returning . |
| 12 | But I realize , as I sit here in the offices of the Strategy Unit , away from my usual desk and my usual routine , and charged with scrupulous self-examination , that I look forward to being interrupted , and that I also get a certain satisfaction from these sighs and clickings of the tongue . |
| 13 | And the handsomest Celt on earth kneels before me while I sit snugly in the big armchair , the best armchair . |
| 14 | ‘ I sit there in the laboratory , ’ says Phil , ‘ trying to think how people go , and I ca n't remember . |
| 15 | Oh , yes , it took me a bit of time to recognise you , but I got there in the end . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ I say later in the kitchen . |
| 17 | I say surprisingly in the case of Christian feminists because it is so clear to me that women , or the feminine , can never hold an equivalent place to male figures or motifs within what is a deeply masculine religion . |
| 18 | Unlikely though it may seem , as I wandered miserably in the snow in a duffle coat , puffing my pipe , around the cobblestones and concrete of Wilhelmshaven , I was still , in naval terms , serving aboard a ship , HMS Royal Rupert to be precise . |
| 19 | I place firmly in the Government 's lap the responsibility for failing to tackle crime . |
| 20 | This is the essential logic of asymmetrical circulating exchange systems of the Kula type , which I mentioned earlier in the context of my discussion of generalized exchange and which so puzzled Malinowski . |
| 21 | Somebody did , I learnt later in the day and so did Viscount Lewisham , president of MCC . |
| 22 | When I woke once in the night I could feel the north wind blowing softly on my cheek , and knew we would have good sailing the next day . |
| 23 | ‘ I came specially in the hope of seeing Doctor Volkov . ’ |
| 24 | The second critical comment I came across in the Scrapbook was George Steiner 's statement from the Sunday Times in 1967 . |
| 25 | This is a game I came across in the United States and is for older children aged seven and upwards . |
| 26 | Art dealers are looking for quality work and if the dispirited pastiches I came across in the East End are representative of the best on offer this is clearly going to be an increasingly difficult task . |
| 27 | A letter I came across in the Houghton Library at Harvard bemoans to his father an incident in which , for some reason , he had offended a women clerk to whom he had consigned some typing . |
| 28 | I even enjoyed Nonni 's company ; when I came home in the evenings , she would make tea and we would discuss Tom and Oliver , their beauty , their brains , their marvellous futures . |
| 29 | Last Sunday I drove here in the car with Ma and Doyle . |
| 30 | As I lie uneasily in the cab , I wonder why it is that I feel propelled to barge in here . |