Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Reagan , Hatch , Quayle , they would 've clapped you in jail in the old days . ’ |
| 2 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 3 | Their religious faith has sustained them in sickness , and in health has prompted concern for the ills of others . |
| 4 | Miller has seen them in action and concedes : ‘ They are in great shape . ’ |
| 5 | He has accepted it in principle , which does him great credit . |
| 6 | The Health Authority has had it in mind for many years to consolidate the main hospitals on to one or two principal sites and to rationalise the use of the specialised sites . |
| 7 | The taxman ought to require companies to reveal at the end of each tax year how much each company car insured for private use has cost them in depreciation , insurance , servicing and fuel . |
| 8 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |
| 9 | He has taken it in response to the pressure and fight put up by the ‘ homelands Chief Ministers ’ — Buthelezi and Co . |
| 10 | AD LIB RALLY LATEST … over in Gloucester rugby fans have spent the weekend celebrating after a famous win over Saracens … but the price of victory for the cherry and whites was an injury to scrum half Marcus Hannaford which has put him in hospital and put the good name of the sport to the test |
| 11 | In fact Mr Major , who is said to have been delighted with the way Mr Waldegrave introduced the health reforms , has put him in charge of implementing the Citizen 's Charter . |
| 12 | The changes are associated with a £2.4m overdraft Young has agreed with its banks to meet a financial crisis which has put it in breach of the covenants on £5.4m worth of convertible preference shares issued four months ago . |
| 13 | We could not marry , but he has kept me in comfort ever since we became lovers and he fathered my two children . |
| 14 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 15 | Politics as they know it — the system that has kept them in power for the past 45 years — is being challenged by two younger men from their own party . |
| 16 | The brewing plant there was modernized during the early 1970s and subsequent investment has kept it in line with current technology . |
| 17 | Unemployment has also played a part as a recruiting sergeant for the underclass , both in the way it has selected its membership , and in the way it has held them in place . |
| 18 | She was surprised that he 'd picked her in spite of her work . |
| 19 | And I explained that er I 'd met her in town , which I did , did n't I ? |
| 20 | They 'd done it in Gaelic to cover up the vulgarity . |
| 21 | She 'd grabbed it in relief , struggling into it to cover her nakedness , her cheeks hot . |
| 22 | We 'd kept it in cash . |
| 23 | But said too that he 'd married her in church and he 'd promised to look after her always . ’ |
| 24 | Green weeds and barnacles were thick on them , and whales might have saluted them in passing . |
| 25 | ‘ Moray and the north will always be his , and the rest would have joined them in time with no more than what he was offering : equal rule , equal justice , equal worship . |
| 26 | As a result of this all pervading desire for reticence it is possible to suggest that the presentation of research papers in seminars , the creation of an undirected thesis , not to mention the production of a book , could easily have placed me in breach of Regulation 6 , which outlines the disciplinary offence of |
| 27 | Whatever reply Jesus gave would have placed him in danger . |
| 28 | It then took me a while to realise the significance of it , but at last I remembered it had been around Dora Belle 's neck , the person who murdered Perk and she must have placed it in Perk 's hand when she buried her . |
| 29 | But the appearance of Howard when he came into the room must have impressed him in spite of himself — the bulging clear blue eyes , the eager lean of the body forward , the anxiety on the face to understand the world around him . |
| 30 | ‘ Chris must have trusted him in order to hide the Grimoire there . ’ |