Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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31 She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day .
32 For this writer it began when , shortly after stepping off the plane in Johannesburg , it became apparent that a few stitches sustained by the All Black winger Terry Wright in a training accident was deemed as worthy a front page news story as the continuous blood-letting in the Natal townships between rival ANC and Inkatha factions .
33 The new Patron and his wife attended Congress and were enthusiastically received as the gain in the Association 's status by the patronage of this distinguished Peer was appreciated by everybody present .
34 You could eat off the floor in her house .
35 It may be easier to plan for the future in stages and to adapt to one change at a time .
36 Amaranth , who felt her temper rising , asked about the trailer in today 's True Brit .
37 Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ?
38 Textbooks catering for the upsurge in legal education in the 1950s and 1960s sought to capture in print the mysterious unwritten secrets of a constitution which had emerged into the democratic world without appearing to have changed at all .
39 The Manchester United manager swooped for the Frenchman in a sensational bid to solve his goal-scoring problems after failing to lure England 's David Hirst from Sheffield Wednesday for £3.5 million .
40 In desperate need of love vibes , the audience descended like a pack of ravenous wolves on St Etienne , not least because this duo of Thunderbird puppets in polo necks are now fronted solely by Stephanie , a dead ringer for the teenage Bardot who gambols about the stage in such a display of unrestrained delight , that you think ‘ this is the real thing ’ .
41 Two died and 15 were injured when the blast and a fireball ripped through the plant in Castleford , West Yorks , on Monday .
42 Does the extension in claimable hours alone account for the increase in the number of night visits ?
43 Could this increase in liver protein synthesis , however , account for the increase in whole body protein synthesis that Powell-Tuck et al reported in their series of patients ?
44 You will have to apply para 41 if you are to equity account for the associate in accordance with standard practice .
45 The raising of the compulsory school-leaving age , first to 15 and then to 16 , and the expansion of further education account for the growth in education .
46 The investment bank wishes to maintain relationships in order to ensure future business , to preserve its reputation , and to maintain the value of any information it has gathered about the firm in question — which is obviously unsaleable .
47 ‘ If you mean about the girl in the car , she says there was no girl .
48 She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian .
49 Surely if a charge is made for this service it should be made to District Audit who , I understand , asked for the information in the first place .
50 The beginning of that evolution is usually dated to the constitution which Solon produced for the city in or around the year 594 BC.Solon 's intervention was itself the outcome of a period of conflict between " the masse and " the notable , according to the account given by Aristotle in The Athenian Constitution .
51 The Chronicle A ( s.a. 685 ) says that Caedwalla began to contend for the kingship in 685 , but it was not until 686 that he established himself as king over the western Saxons .
52 Emma closed her eyes but for the moment she could n't answer for the throbbing in her throat .
53 They passed through the turnstile in the canal railings and took the gravel path to the porch of the south door , the one to which Miss Wharton had a key .
54 The seeds tended to be large and heavy and passed through the gut in 13 hours , the passage time inversely correlated with specific gravity of the seeds and had an indirect effect on the distance that seeds were dispersed away from the mother tree .
55 Elves traditionally date their calendar from the day that Aenarion passed through the flame in the Shrine of Asuryan .
56 He passed through the archway in the garden wall of Sea House , opening the white iron gate and leaving it open .
57 In a very short time , the two of them , together with Mrs Diggory , were fussing about the dog in the library , with bowls of warm water , blankets , an old sheet torn in strips , and even some milk laced with laudanum unearthed from the late Lady Merchiston 's store of medicines in the attics .
58 Both relate to the social environment of the person with an established schizophrenic illness : while he is being treated for the disorder in hospital , and after he has been discharged into the community .
59 Regulars at the hotel share the owners indignation … they say they fought for the flag in the last war :
60 By learning to go through the pain in a supportive environment , the sufferer learns to create new positive " pictures " and not to run away from emotional challenges by resorting to mood-altering substances or behaviour .
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