Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 2 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 3 | ‘ Pray take my arm m'lady and I shall convey thee hence in the twinkling of an eye . ’ |
| 4 | Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ( Eph. 6:1–4 ) . |
| 5 | Paul 's direction to parents is contained in the words , ‘ Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ’ ( Eph. 6:4 ) . |
| 6 | He would help fructify their holdings , bring them up in the world where they should be . |
| 7 | ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather . |
| 8 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 9 | Now unle now unless there are any participants that want , really burning to make a comment , er I feel that we have settled , well we 've had enough discussion on little A , I 've got enough , well I 've got enough from you in terms of your views about size of settlement , and Mr Brighton has pointed me again in the direction of his submission about er the definition of an integrated and balanced community , I would like to know , er from Mr Davis whether he concurs with that sort of interpretation , and I have a feeling that we have also had an expression , generally , that at the moment one settlement is probably appropriate , if you have to have a new settlement . |
| 10 | The mathematics were simple : £10,000 would enable them to fatten up their piglets , sell them off in the autumn , clear their overdraft and continue preserving all the surviving Old Spot bloodlines . |
| 11 | You do n't want them up in the top the next group |
| 12 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 13 | And then he asked me out in the end . |
| 14 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 15 | If you have prepared bottles of formula in advance , cool them quickly in the fridge and keep them there until you 're ready to use them , with sterilised teat caps on . |
| 16 | ‘ Lay me quietly in the earth ’ , he requested , ‘ … no monument to mark where I am laid . |
| 17 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 18 | Their performances have , over the years , given ordinary people a much-needed reason to feel pride in their native city , while binding them together in the sharing of two terrible tragedies . |
| 19 | By choosing to investigate the ideas behind Magritte 's art , Sylvester 's discussion of important pictures such as ‘ The Annunciation ’ or ‘ The Rape ’ is fragmented and spread over different chapters , an irritation aggravated by the publishers who have failed to give plate references to the illustrations and cite them appropriately in the text . |
| 20 | And for at least one parent , there was an awareness that sometimes children 's sense of justice can be hurt by parents not taking some of the blame : ‘ If a kid arrives late for school , or is not properly dressed , then that 's not the kid 's fault , it 's the mother 's fault , or whoever got them out in the morning . |
| 21 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 22 | Yes that 's a good idea sit them together in the hall . |
| 23 | I mean I normally in the past I 've always gone for experienced keepers because you know I mean they they do n't come to their prime until , I do n't think goalkeepers over twenty six twenty seven onwards . |
| 24 | The last two goals are the most important , and we shall consider them further in the following sections . |
| 25 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 26 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 27 | He looks me straight in the eyes as he takes his hand from my glass . |
| 28 | Kellard looks me briefly in the eye . |
| 29 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 30 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |