Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They enjoyed teasing Liz about her pretensions , and rarely had an opportunity to tease her in the presence of Charles . |
| 32 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |
| 33 | The control you have over the video " text " gives you the flexibility to use it in the way that best suits your particular purpose at any particular time . |
| 34 | The first I knew about the plan to publish it in the newspapers tomorrow was a fax at midday today . ’ |
| 35 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 36 | It would be a disservice to Denis Law to mention him in the same breath as some of Scotland 's more notorious hell-raisers . |
| 37 | In nineteen eighty two , a loaf was thirty seven P and in ninety sorry eighty two , thirty seven P , ninety two , it 's fifty four P and er I 'm reliably informed by er my wife that you can actually get loaves less than that if you go to the er large supermarkets where they 're discounting the bread to get you in the store obviously . |
| 38 | And is that why you invited him and Heather to join you in the evening ? |
| 39 | Our squeamishness in the presence of our prey animals , our inability to look them in the eye , has condemned a large number of our pigs to nastiest existence imaginable . |
| 40 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 41 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 42 | It was left to his brother Laurence to include it in the posthumous More Poems ( 1936 ) . |
| 43 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity or his ownership of any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 44 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity , his ownership of , or responsibility for , any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 45 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 46 | It is pointed out in Washington that the President made a special point of ensuring that Mr Major was the first European leader to meet him in the White House . |
| 47 | We dragged the man free and Warren drove the car at the dogs to box them in the alleyway so they could not escape . |
| 48 | Rain wondered whether she had the cheek to install her in the Antibes flat borrowed from her newspaper colleague . |
| 49 | ‘ No problem is hopeless if you 've got the courage to look it in the face . |
| 50 | Said Granada 's Controller of Sport Paul Doherty : ‘ I told the ITV lawyers that I consider this unfair restriction of trade and I want ITV as a body to challenge it in the courts . |
| 51 | Several influences combined in this period to help him in the search for an alternative theological approach . |
| 52 | Thus ( 66 ) implies " He did n't dare oppose his wife 's whims any more than he dared commit high treason " , ( 67 ) that the speaker is of the opinion that they would n't dare say a word against him , and in ( 68 ) the speaker very clearly believes that the addressee does n't have the cheek to look him in the eye and tell such an obvious lie . |
| 53 | A running calendar is simply a tool to guide you in the direction you want to go . |
| 54 | Mummy tell daddy to put me in the hall . |
| 55 | There 's nothing quite like sexy lingerie to put you in the mood so knock him dead on Valentine 's Day with some of this sizzling underwear from the latest Freemans Spring/Summer collection . |
| 56 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 57 | It was a good move to keep it in the theatre . " |
| 58 | Homo homini lupus : who has the courage to dispute it in the face of all evidence in his own life and in history ? |
| 59 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
| 60 | If the rumour is true that Ceauşescu recruited his future guards and secret policemen from among these abandoned souls , then their failure to save him in the crisis of his regime is hardly surprising . |