Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment computer manufacturers and disc drive makers who do not want to invest in their own design are uncertain about whose bandwagon to jump on . |
| 2 | Third party test facilities are another option for manufacturers which do not want to invest in their own facilities . |
| 3 | And since the rich tend to sit in their own gardens , public parks help redistribute enjoyment towards the poor . |
| 4 | In practice , this may mean that old people are exposed to risk in their own homes and that there will be , on occasion , tragic consequences . |
| 5 | Females tend to remain in their natal units , which thereby increase gradually in size . |
| 6 | However , Nellie 's nagging won the day and he agreed to go in his new Austin car and look for Dr Nolan . |
| 7 | But for the moment , the prospect of marriage to a woman he loved , and of life together in a place of exquisite beauty , seemed to offer the stability and direction he never ceased to crave in his personal life . |
| 8 | Well , Bryony wants to sit in her own chair today , so you sit on your own chair . |
| 9 | Nor would he accept that he should work out the sum due by looking at the cost of providing a type of car which Mr Shove ‘ might reasonably be expected to acquire in his present circumstances ’ . |
| 10 | And the command is in four parts erm and you 're expected to write in what those four parts are . |
| 11 | To be a highly visible minority of two in communities which were often as expressive as they were antagonistic was an abrupt reversal of the roles we had so unthinkingly come to accept in our British prep schools . |
| 12 | Brookes introduced the concept of ‘ periodical utility ’ , which he defined as the number of references a paper could be expected to attract in its particular library context during the period it remained in the library . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , having had far too much to drink , Clare woke up the next morning in James 's bed , saw that it was nearly nine o'clock , fled to work in her crumpled clothes but arrived late again . |
| 14 | For many who adopt a liberal and free-enterprise approach the explanation of our present problems is the increasing role which government has come to play in our economic life . |
| 15 | By making language do other than what it is designed to do in its original context , parodic manipulation undermines its illocutionary force rather than its explicit semantic content . |
| 16 | She would still have a spare bedroom , quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state . |
| 17 | I want to sleep in my old room , so what I do is take the mattress and stick it back in my old room . |
| 18 | It is called the Red House because it is built of deep red brick , an unusual medium for a man of means , who was normally expected to build in something nobler . |
| 19 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 20 | Satan lies to his followers and has convinced us too of his mighty strength and even starts to believe in his own lies when he claims he was ‘ self-begot ’ , caused by Fate , or he sprang from the ground or willed himself into existence , an absurd contradiction in terms . |
| 21 | Perhaps in her company you fade psychologically — you are so used to believing that she is more attractive that you cease to believe in your own abilities . |
| 22 | We have to , we want to live in our own country , and we have a right to live in our own country . |
| 23 | This real doctor was a much younger man than the Doctor Bailey I created to live in his old house . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to whisper in your shell-like ear . ’ |
| 25 | It feels to Alice that motherhood means overturning ‘ almost all the marital , housing , professional and personal progress I was expected to make in my 20s . |
| 26 | Others present what they do and what they want to achieve in their first year , for example , putting out an album and going on tour . |
| 27 | Or am I not permitted to speak in my own house ? ’ |
| 28 | U2 's Achtung Baby album won five trophies but they stayed home — preferring to celebrate in their favourite Dublin pub instead . |
| 29 | But Labour councillor Tom Chipperfield said : ‘ This is bound to cost more if you think that more old people will choose to remain in their own homes . |
| 30 | However , most would accept that ideally elderly people should have a choice of agreeable alternatives to suit their circumstances and conditions and that a majority would choose to remain in their own homes . |