Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 2 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 3 | The specification was also very comprehensive , and the 1987 version added the significant message that heads and coordinators should select from and adapt the list rather than seek to implement it in its entirety . |
| 4 | We have chosen your shorts , I now propose to instruct you in their origin and past life . |
| 5 | Major Tzann wants to see you in his office , right away . ’ |
| 6 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 7 | Any proper examination of those models would need to set them in their philosophical and social contexts . |
| 8 | The charity is still in force today , but is used for grants for students and apprentices for books and any equipment they may need to help them in their careers . |
| 9 | As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ? |
| 10 | As he journeyed home in the early-morning gloom , he tried to fix it in his mind with words . |
| 11 | I do n't want to put it in me deposit you see , I want to put it in my next year 's commitment |
| 12 | When he tried to put it in my back passage , I said no . |
| 13 | Provi he wants to put them in his camera and that see , so |
| 14 | But he wants to keep it in his own hands . |
| 15 | The Open College of Arts tried to interest us in their ‘ creative Writing ’ course by sending us a magazine compiled from the students work . |
| 16 | All the time I 'm working and eating and chatting to my mates , I just want to feel you next to me , just want to hold you in my arms and forget about everything else . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to hold you in my arms and kiss you till we 're both half crazy with it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I want to make love to you , Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I want to hold you in my arms all night tru ’ , I want to tell you what it 's been like for me without you , just missing you , missing you so bad like one of us had passed on . |
| 19 | He tried to take her in his arms , but she pulled away . |
| 20 | I want to take you in my arms and kiss you and — ’ He looked to the side to where two people were approaching ; then dropping her hands , he said on a laugh , ‘ I 've only to be seen doing that in public , even holding your hands , and the place would be set on fire . |
| 21 | Then she thought , Jack wants to take me in his arms and I wo n't let him . |
| 22 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
| 23 | Lukic charged out and seemed to hit him in what was no more than a 50–50 challenge . |
| 24 | It was against this background that Peter Thompson , the chief executive of NFC , together with his chairman , Bobby Lawrence , came to see me in my small office on the Cabinet floor of the House of Commons on 18 May 1981 . |
| 25 | When our daughter Rebecca was three she came to see me in my office one day and said , ‘ Daddy , you 're the leader of the church , and you know everything . ’ |
| 26 | He came to see me in our hotel the night before we came to this country , and … |
| 27 | The drooping branches of the willow tree seemed to enclose them in its own embrace . |
| 28 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 29 | Wollongong , Palo Alto , California plans to use it in its open systems interconnection communications product line for the Digital Equipment Corp VAX , and Datability , Carlstadt , New Jersey plans to incorporate it for its communications server product line . |
| 30 | Despite their different interpretations of the song — the new version is a smoochy ballad , while the old one was pure country — Dolly was so impressed with Whitney 's version that she plans to use it in her stage show . |