Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That we should cut off the electricity and make everyone live in the dark ? |
| 2 | He promised ( i ) to drop immediately the 10 per cent tax on imports ; ( ii ) to eliminate Central Bank financing of the National Treasury , except for guaranteed financing provisions , and to streamline fiscal accounts to avoid deficits ; ( iii ) to combat speculation ; ( iv ) to end private and public monopolies ; ( v ) to introduce tax reforms at the beginning of the new year aimed at simplifying the tax system and making it more progressive to " make everyone participate in the national effort " ; and ( vi ) to carry out an administrative reform in the state sector with some state companies to be privatized . |
| 3 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean someone to take in the ironing ? |
| 5 | He wants everyone pointing in the same direction , and that means a common culture and a common status . |
| 6 | First of all he let nothing stand in the way of his true feelings . |
| 7 | But he let nothing get in the way of his chief purpose . |
| 8 | Her eyes spanned the room , once , twice , and seemed to find something threatening in the silence . |
| 9 | Outside , a few brown chickens were trying to find something to eat in the garden . |
| 10 | Always in the leading group , McMahon pushed to the front before the last where he was challenged by the favourite Over the Edge , but keeping his mount perfectly balanced and running as straight as a gun barrel , McMahon found something left in the ‘ Tank ’ and went on to score a snug success . |
| 11 | I do not need anyone to rub in the truth that , yes , I too dwell heavily suspended above traffic snarl , pavement noises , an eel-and-pie shop , a tobacconist 's and a hardware store . |
| 12 | Inspired , yes , by a bus run , but the booler is definitely my own husband who is devoted to sport and allows nothing to come in the way of his bowls , both indoor and outdoor bowling . |
| 13 | Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident . |
| 14 | Delaney pointed , having seen something bobbing in the water . |
| 15 | As Huy came closer , he noticed something glinting in the half light , not quite halfway up the door and towards its centre . |
| 16 | Bill Watts , whose clocks achieve the highest levels of craftsmanship , was recently commissioned to produce a clock to replace one built in the 1760s . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They should also give everybody named in the report an opportunity to respond , rather than the current practice of approaching only those criticised . |
| 19 | This scheme would benefit anyone participating in the chosen activity not just Ottery youth . |
| 20 | Police and medical advisers are urging anyone caught in the cloud to consult their doctors as the chemicals can cause severe irritation to the eyes and throat . |
| 21 | I might see someone walking in the street , in an outfit I like , and think , she looks good . |
| 22 | I think I 've got one to read in the . |
| 23 | It would have helped to have had something to read in the quiet of my own home , so I could know what to expect in the future . |
| 24 | Thur er Wednesday and Thursday the children I have before and after school at Goose Hill School , you know the one , the one near me , just the bottom of the road on the corner , that 's had to be closed on Thursday because the boiler room had flooded on Wednesday and er they had to dry it out and also the children from Newminster were told anyone living in the Middle Queens area go home |
| 25 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |
| 26 | it was still in the sixties , they call it the swinging sixties , I mean I did n't see anything swinging in the sixties at all , I did n't think it was swinging , but er and they do n't like now the swinging sixties and I think really it was then that er people did er branch out to new ideas . |
| 27 | The long , slow filtration process does not remove anything dissolved in the water . |
| 28 | Yeah , I think we should say that , well really , unless we 've got anything scheduled in the next week or two , let's get them out the way |
| 29 | ‘ I want to see something happening in the game , something that helps the players and the spectators to enjoy it — but how can it happen when players are congested in seven-and-a-half yards either side of the halfway line ? ’ |
| 30 | He made one tour in the early 1830s , when already ill and enfeebled . |