Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 2 | When he was able , he fed himself with the meal he 'd prepared earlier , and stripped off the heavy insulating robe to dress himself in Tech-Green drab . |
| 3 | The experience in Gentle Jack and the speech that caused all the problems in that play stood him in good stead . |
| 4 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
| 5 | In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative . |
| 6 | No-one has the complete freedom to do anything in our modern , regimented society . |
| 7 | Within the Korean community in particular , heavily armed shop-owners organized themselves in defence of their businesses . |
| 8 | In that case use it in scientific and then it will work that way . |
| 9 | Farmers still dilute a concentrated formulation to apply it in 200 litres or more of water per hectare . |
| 10 | Look out for anyone standing around on their own , and if possible try to involve them in what you are doing . |
| 11 | If possible try to frame them in a dramatic way — because this is a further pointer for the children showing how you are going to work together . |
| 12 | Our second introductory case places you in this situation . |
| 13 | that experience changed him in every way . |
| 14 | One small technical trick to aid you in keeping the police at bay , I add , is for your corpse to be supposed to be the result of an accident , often seeming such to everybody but your incurably inquisitive heroine . |
| 15 | Indeed it has been almost necessary for the agricultural industry to ignore it in order to develop the modern chemical systems of farming . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't worry , I wo n't get any idea that you 're interested in me ! ’ she replied in a weak attempt to say something in her own defence . |
| 17 | Obviously all the planets that we see orbiting the sun must be travelling at exactly the right speed to keep them in their orbits , or we would n't see them there because they would n't be there ! |
| 18 | For each node , every word in its left sub-tree precedes the word at the parent node in the alphabet , and every word in its right sub-tree follows it in the alphabet . |
| 19 | Each side takes it in turn to bat . |
| 20 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 21 | The sharp hiss of an angry breath drawn through clenched teeth stopped him in his tracks . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's an end to an auld sang , ’ said Lord Chancellor Seafield when the Scottish Parliament dissolved itself in 1707 . |
| 23 | But by then the military phase of the Emergency was nearly over , and apart from the odd border patrol , the Masai were given no further opportunity to distinguish themselves in battle . |
| 24 | I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead . |
| 25 | The savings on operating costs alone were immense , some experts putting it in the order of £2 million a year . |
| 26 | Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to join me in expressing joy at the release of Terry Waite and Tom Sutherland from their long and terrible captivity ? |
| 27 | My companion took this opportunity to hide himself in his papers . |
| 28 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
| 29 | A great deal of very useful research can be carried out wholly from documentary sources of one kind or another , but often social researchers find themselves in a position where they want to investigate social behaviour on which there is very little published research or perhaps what research has been published is not relevant enough to their own particular areas of interest . |
| 30 | The way was thereby opened for English merchants to establish themselves in the island , and William Bolton came to Madeira as an agent for Robert Heysham of London , who had a brother in Barbados to whom Bolton shipped a large quantity of wine . |