Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is noticeable that the Russell-Copleston debate became embroiled in a discussion of necessary propositions , a discussion made necessary by Copleston 's desire to show Russell that the world is such that it must be the case that it has a Creator . |
| 2 | In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway . |
| 3 | Thomas of Sandwich subsequently became mayor of Bordeaux in 1289 , and became embroiled in a dispute with the burgesses which led to an appeal to the Parlement of Paris ; his place as seneschal of Ponthieu was taken by Richard de Pevensey . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 6 | He was willing to go to confirm in an emergency at very short notice and this earned him some long-lasting gratitude . |
| 7 | An Enfield clerical family took in a great-grandmother in her nineties for her last two years : ‘ she did n't want to go in a home and she wrote to my mother and asked if she could possibly look after her . |
| 8 | Trent had never heard of the President being a drinker , secret or otherwise , and it was the sort of habit that could n't stay hidden in a country of Belpan 's size . |
| 9 | But he did n't want to sit in a pub , listening to the jollity and in-jokes of office workers . |
| 10 | Tobie made to sit in a chair and then desisted , because it was inlaid and foreign and breakable . |
| 11 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't want to work in a shop or a bank so I wrote to my local radio station , West Sound , asking if I could make the tea . ’ |
| 13 | Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory . |
| 14 | I did n't want to work in a place where I could n't wear my fur coat . |
| 15 | I do n't know , I did n't really want to work in an office . |
| 16 | They got trapped in a hole , and no one could get near enough to get them out . |
| 17 | The South Shropshire coroner , Tony Sibsey , said it would never be known whether the boys had watched the episode of ‘ Neighbours ’ when a young boy got trapped in a trunk trying to hide from his father . |
| 18 | Yeah he got trapped in a car park and he could n't get out for ages and ages and then as he got out he crashed into another car . |
| 19 | He and Benjamin soon became immersed in a discussion on alchemy and the philosopher 's stone : the librarian also offered to take my master to see Narepool at the bottom of which , according to legend , Arthur 's Sword still lay . |
| 20 | I 'd prefer to work in a factory . |
| 21 | As indicated above , the Cuban revolution induced Soviet leaders to modify the view ( hitherto almost as firmly believed in the Kremlin as in the White House ) that the Latin American nations were destined to remain trapped in a position of subservience to the United States . |
| 22 | ‘ He was working one day , painting from nature , and got caught in a rainstorm . |
| 23 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 24 | Starting twelfth , Hunt got caught in a battle with Tom Pryce and went off the track and into a sand trap . |
| 25 | That was n't the end of it : Ephraim did n't fall far , he got caught in a bush , but he saw the man who was trying to rescue him go all the way down . ’ |
| 26 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 27 | You 'll find in our newspapers many signs of a extraordinary mental instability leading to terrible deeds ( that theological student who killed a girl he had arranged to meet in a shed , and who was arrested a hour later eating his breakfast — and so on ) . |
| 28 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 29 | " If you want to go in a trawler , go in summer , he advised me . |
| 30 | Eddie Alcock , who has represented the Castle Hill , Ipswich , division at County Hall for eight years , said : ‘ It is to do with a difficult situation which has developed in a company which I am associated with . ’ |