Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " .
2 All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick .
3 Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores .
4 When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig .
5 Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks .
6 Wilson 's Cabinet — jealous of a non-political and non-party intruder — had decided not to include me in the team .
7 Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them .
8 He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too .
9 We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out .
10 Incidentally , if you have any items which you think would be of interest to the Residents , your scribe would be happy to include them in the Newsletter .
11 When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey .
12 They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value .
13 See when you get them socks off then why do n't you throw them in the bin .
14 According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman .
15 ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned .
16 We do n't get to see them in the states so we have to come over here .
17 I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild .
18 She could n't look out to see them in the yard .
19 The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission .
20 Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh .
21 They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’
22 Well it 's good to see them in the bath anyway having a good good old splash about , you know ?
23 Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children .
24 Come to see me in a fortnight .
25 All the crew liked and even obeyed Silver , and he was always pleased to see me in the kitchen , which he kept as clean as a new pin .
26 Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners .
27 Reception rang through and said there was a lady waiting to see me in the foyer .
28 He used to come to see me in the prison .
29 I asked the governor whether I could have a visit in the probation department so that Karen did n't have to see me in the gym with everyone else and I could talk to her a bit more intimately .
30 This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they .
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