Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] in [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to hand my cans in as mayor to lead the way , ’ said Coun Bolland . |
| 2 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |
| 3 | They 're for those upper-class twits who turn up halfway through seminars and who never bother to get their essays in on time . |
| 4 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |
| 5 | They used to go swimming and walks in the winter , have their friends in for tea |
| 6 | The situation to be avoided is where the buyer digs his heels in on principle , because of the attitude of the salesperson . |
| 7 | John Mackinnon , who did much of the pioneer fieldwork on orangs and gives an entertaining account of his studies in In Search of the Red Ape , theorizes that the early orangs ranged the ground in large bands like gorillas , protected by their giant males . |
| 8 | The reader is seeing a benign gardener , a cartoon Adam with his trousers tied up with string , who gets his lettuces in on time and knows a Delphinium from a Campanula . |
| 9 | You hand your essays in on time , |
| 10 | Points out that even though no more than week long , seemed to last approx. 2000 years given their children with talent for running away from home/eating razor blades/climbing into boot of car to die/vomiting continuously/fighting with our children in between asthma bouts . |
| 11 | Next time you find yourself queuing to have your photo taken on the Cantilever in Snowdonia , or looking for a vacant shelter to eat your sandwiches in on Scafell Pike , stop and look to the west . |