Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 2 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 3 | May I associate my right hon. and hon. Friends with the tribute paid by the Prime Minister to Her Majesty the Queen , and may I join in the other congratulations already expressed ? |
| 4 | Can I go in the rolling mills ? |
| 5 | D' ya remember in the first when we had curly going everywhere . |
| 6 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 7 | As for yours truly , yes , there is someone who I met quite recently , who probably needs me no more than I need her , someone who brings out my poetic streak , and makes me believe in the little people . ’ |
| 8 | Now erm did you stay in the same school or ? |
| 9 | How do you think in the next year or two Oxford university will develop it 's ways of dealing with this ? |
| 10 | Liv in the Do you know in the actual flats where you 're living here ? |
| 11 | Did you look in the other one , the nineteen ninety edition ? |
| 12 | But there are many more , of course , and listing playwrights is useful only insofar as it presents a few guidelines , primarily to help you look in the right places . |
| 13 | Do you see in the first two movements of the Fifth and in the whole of the Sixth a certain prophetic note , or do you see them in purely musical terms ? |
| 14 | Who do you follow in the Premier League ? |
| 15 | ‘ What kind of parachutes did you use in the British Army ? ’ |
| 16 | Can she measure in the appropriate units ? |
| 17 | ‘ Is that the chap who was helping you move in the other day ? ’ |
| 18 | Huge panoramic windows and large observation decks let you take in the passing scenery , whilst the attentive crew are always ready to sort out a drink or a snack . |
| 19 | Where do you go in the 1960s ? |
| 20 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 21 | How many jockeys , trainers and horses can you spot in the next 30 seconds . |
| 22 | How many jockeys , trainers and horses can you spot in the next forty seconds ? |
| 23 | Miss Bruce 's distaste for innovation made itself manifest in the dreary proposals served up to the Conservative and Labour governments in the seventies — whenever a request for names for public duties arrived in her in-tray , the same roll-call of has-beens fell out of her out-tray . |
| 24 | Then I went down to my dressing room and there was this big , long note that somebody had written and stuck on my dresser , saying , ‘ How dare you bask in the reflected glory of others ’ and stuff like that . |
| 25 | May you rot in the foulest mosh-pit of Neds . |
| 26 | Can you recall in the past years the keepers ever receiving beer or whisky allowance . |
| 27 | Which digit should you put in the hundreds column ? |
| 28 | The great public buildings were stuccoed with gypsum to make them dazzle in the bright sea-light . |
| 29 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |
| 30 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |