Example sentences of "[verb] in [pos pn] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hectic social life could cost a packet so you might have to pull in your horns a wee bit . |
| 2 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 3 | The man was such a devastating mixture , she thought hazily , outwardly so cold and enigmatic , but revealing in his kiss a passion so potent it thrilled her to the depths of her soul . |
| 4 | In addition , those general practices wishing to administer their own budgets will have included in their budgets a component to cover certain hospital-based treatments . |
| 5 | After she died in Eastertide 1980 at the age of seventy-eight , I found in her desk a handwritten letter to our three children , which she put together in Jerusalem at the repeated request of Rachel , our elder daughter . |
| 6 | The only curious thing was that I found in my room a handbill from a Frenchman trying to solicit backers to export parchment to France and import wine into England . |
| 7 | The Piaroa recognize marriage exchange as an exceedingly dangerous principle to act upon , a lesson they receive from the events of the mythic past which was a time when each marriage alliance between strangers carried in its wake a deadly competition for the poisonous cultural capabilities of predation . |
| 8 | Once , like many Londoners , Alice had carried in her head a basic tube map , at least of inner London , but she had forgotten it . |
| 9 | The eldest child carried in her arms a baby in long clothes . |
| 10 | The Rev H.P. Wright , who was a chaplain in the Crimea , always carried in his breast-pocket a prayer-book given to him by a devout family nurse . |
| 11 | She now has in her possession a Vox Standard 25 , a Yamaha SG3000 , two acoustics and two Fender Jaguars , a 1963 and a 1968 model . |
| 12 | The computer has in its memory a list of foods and prices . |
| 13 | The church which Kinloch also provided has in its churchyard a flagstaff from which permanently flies the saltire or St Andrew 's cross , floodlit at night , recalling the vision of a white cross against blue sky which supposedly inspired combined Pictish and Scottish forces to victory against the invading King Athelstan and later became the national flag . |
| 14 | If the queries coming into the public relations or press office are short questions they can usually be answered on the spot , but quite often they will be in the form of a general request for information on a specific topic and it could be that your organisation has in its files a good deal of material which could be sent out . |
| 15 | The British Museum has in its collections a marble panel , recomposed from fragments , belonging to a Roman sarcophagus ( GR 1805.7–13.135 ) . |
| 16 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 17 | IT IS a broadly accepted truism that all novelists harbour in their system a novel about growing up . |
| 18 | When a mother instils in her daughter a strong sense of obligation towards the house , to keeping it clean , tidy , impeccably dusted , the daughter in her turn may find herself either an unhappy slave to these expectations , or else determinedly anarchic in her own home . |
| 19 | Kylie 's grandparents Dennis and Millie Jones were fiercely proud of their roots in the valleys and instilled in their family a respect for Welsh tradition and culture . |
| 20 | At least , that was the case , until I demolished a tumbledown pigsty at the bottom of the garden , and built in its place a guest annexe . |
| 21 | This , perhaps , was the most fundamental objective of the reformers : to end a system in which the population was seen as a ‘ building material from which anything could be moulded ’ and to create in its place a ‘ highly moral society of free , creatively thinking , active and independent people ’ . |
| 22 | The business men came , we heard , the Chancellor listened , and he has incorporated in his proposals a large number of deregulatory measures , which will ease cash flow and make it easier to deal with the VAT man and the Inland Revenue . |
| 23 | If you want to participate in their fun a vintage bus service operates from Cholsey Station on the main line to Wallingford where steam Santa Specials are operating . |
| 24 | Indeed , most of us hold in our heads a stereotyped notion of ‘ the scientist ’ or ‘ the artist ’ . |
| 25 | In 1988 Courage 's Head of Design disdainfully referred to such ramshackle , unplanned buildings as ‘ an abundance of licensed living rooms ’ ; many of his contemporaries have enthusiastically destroyed the internal room plan of such cosy and comfortable buildings in order to install in its place a series of short flights between ascending levels — an increasingly common solution originally devised by pub designer Roy Wilson-Smith in the 1970s . |
| 26 | But Kane was right when he identified in his letter a broad-and-loose Melody Maker aesthetic that prefers transports to truths , rapture to appreciation , magic to meaning , the letting loose of ecstasy to the clench of commitment . |
| 27 | He constructs in his mind a sense of the overarching power and obdurateness of the ‘ system ’ . |
| 28 | He turned in his chair a little . |
| 29 | Heron shows in his article a deep sympathy with Braque 's work , which , incidentally , was a sort of painting he himself was seeking to practise at the time . |
| 30 | Archer is lamentably underrated as a writer by the literati , but future critics will see in his work a detailed analysis of politics in our time . |