Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The joint DES/DHSS nature of the Circular , the necessary involvement of health and social services professionals in the multi-professional assessment , and their part in providing for those with special educational needs , were apparently not seen as sufficient reason for including them in discussions . |
| 2 | Once again , thanks for keeping me in touch . |
| 3 | I got your first letter to Nanking on Saturday , and had plenty of letters at Sian — I 'm not sure that I got them all , in particular I got a letter from Tom sent on March 23 , but I 'm not sure whether that 's the one you referred to , anyway I 'm grateful to you all for keeping me in touch . |
| 4 | An old wallpaper seam roller is ideal for pressing it in place |
| 5 | Although EEC policy is necessarily uniform for the Community as a whole , member governments are responsible for applying it in ways which are relevant to local problems , just as they were for identifying boundaries of their Less Favoured Areas in the first place . |
| 6 | Coward appears not to have liked poor Miss Langford because he also said after seeing her in Gypsy : ‘ Two things should be cut — the second act and that child 's throat . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Still keen on films after seeing them in action for a day ? ’ |
| 8 | He would be moving there not only with Sara and the baby , but with Sara 's mother , their servant Nanny , and a young man called Charles Lloyd , who had fallen under Coleridge 's spell after meeting him in Birmingham . |
| 9 | The Pinneys had become devoted admirers of William Wordsworth after meeting him in London during 1795 , and had soon persuaded their father , John Pretor Pinney , that the little-used family mansion in Dorset should become Wordsworth 's temporary home . |
| 10 | The policeman ‘ assaulted Harold Benn , aged 27 , an amateur boxer , after stopping him in Tooting , south London . |
| 11 | Alex , leader of dance band UB96 , at No 18 with Das Boot has invested £8000 in the car , and says : ‘ I bought it on the spur of the moment after spotting it in Los Angeles . |
| 12 | ‘ Jack is talking now about having nothing to worry about after watching us in Albania , ’ says Bingham . |
| 13 | Kermode has set out his reasons for refusing it in Essays on Fiction , and Lodge has remarked , ‘ To open a book or article by … |
| 14 | For some reason this ancient piece of folk-wisdom seems to have been largely forgotten , but it might be worth reviving it in cases where ordinary measures have failed . |
| 15 | Sophie got the idea of using it in France when she made a scarecrow for a friend . |
| 16 | Since citizenship has become a fashionable and acceptable word , it is easy to slip into the habit of using it in preference to ‘ individual rights ’ or ‘ human rights ’ , but it is important to bear in mind the desirability of keeping the private sphere of the life of the individual separate from his role as citizen , an essentially political role and status . |
| 17 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 18 | Well that 's the object of cooking them in herbs |
| 19 | But instead of basing it in Northallerton , where he runs the Sundial Hotel and founded the now defunct York Trailers , it will be in Shildon , near Darlington . |
| 20 | Michael Howard at Environment , assisted by John Redwood , will be compromised by the need to make the council tax work , a useful means of keeping them in tow ; and Peter Lilley has been kept on board , though demoted , to Social Security . |
| 21 | The intention is to speed up the taking of kick-offs and to stop the time wasting practice of kicking the ball dead instead of keeping it in play from the kick-off . |
| 22 | Yet to take those responsibilities seriously has huge resource implications which would make any government wary of enunciating them in legislation of a more comprehensive and precise kind than currently exists . |
| 23 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 24 | He accused her of smoking it in Marshall 's cottage . |
| 25 | Sometimes it appears that the mere act of measuring them in order to manufacture a candle of corresponding dimensions to burn at the tomb was sufficient to effect the cure . |
| 26 | What is being suggested is that dreams in themselves have no absolute meaning or import — so that the idea of analysing them in terms of standard sets of criteria becomes a nonsense — but that the reaction of the dreamer to his or her dream can be very significant . |
| 27 | No visit to Holland would have been complete without a study of the important Dutch bulb industry and soon after his return Miller produced a paper , read at the Royal Society , on the practice of growing them in water . |
| 28 | The selection of projects from the list of proposals for inclusion in the R&D programme is a matter of ranking them in order of benefit to the company . |
| 29 | The selection of projects from the list of proposals for inclusion in the R&D programme is a matter of ranking them in order of benefit to the company . |
| 30 | He found a place for a year in the household of a wealthy London merchant where he started to translate the New Testament ; it became clear , however , that there was no possibility of printing it in England , so in 1524 he left for Germany , never to return . |