Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
| 2 | If superiors involve them in decision-making , they are more likely to be management-minded . |
| 3 | ‘ Cyclists in bus lanes may also cause delay to buses , although banning cyclists places them in danger if they are required to ride in the main carriageway , with buses passing on their nearside . ’ |
| 4 | Towards the end , Horthy tried to extricate the country from the impending shambles , but the Germans occupied it in March 1944 and , in any case , the Allies were no longer sympathetic . |
| 5 | Evaluation of the McClellan system is difficult because there have been so few opportunities to see it in operation . |
| 6 | Benedict 's eyes met hers in triumph as she turned a fierce look of venom upon him . |
| 7 | The people of Wales have had the misfortune of having a concentration of poll tax fanatics representing them in Whitehall . |
| 8 | Extraordinary revenues derived from the general obligation of the King 's subjects to aid him in times of emergency . |
| 9 | Jack 's eyes followed her in admiration . |
| 10 | For a long moment all she could do was stare back at him , his dark fathomless eyes holding her in thrall . |
| 11 | The most obvious way of preventing cracks from spreading in brittle materials is not to use them in tension , in other words to use them in compression . |
| 12 | Then again , we 've had Echo & The Bunnymen supporting us in front of 3,000 Seig Heil-ing loonies throwing bottles and chairs at them . |
| 13 | It 's understood Mr Bryan had been thinking of returning to Painswick this weekend to escape the hoarde of newsmen beseigning him in London … |
| 14 | Words fail me in praise of your company and its workforce . |
| 15 | ON A BILLBOARD : Rally drivers do it in stages |
| 16 | Suppose a judge then announces , in the style of law as integrity , that the precedents do establish a right to damages because that reading of the precedents makes them in retrospect morally sounder . |
| 17 | A series of brief telephone calls put me in touch with the keeper of the Chalice Well at Glastonbury who was able to give me chapter and verse on the well cover . |
| 18 | Her parents visited her in October and photographs and videos from their trip will be shown at the Methodist Church on February 12 . |
| 19 | He persuaded her parents to give her in marriage to a friend of his and by constant threats and ill-treatment she was forced to consent . |
| 20 | 50mm x 25mm ( 2in x 1in ) to the finished width , plus angle brackets to fix it in position , and three large screw-eyes . |
| 21 | There are loads of baddies , and the world needs some goodies to keep them in hand . |
| 22 | The Cent-Gardes , also created in 1854 , with their magnificent blue and silver uniforms , were picked for their stature — the minimum height was six feet — and their looks , since many of their duties involved them in Court ceremonial , including the lining of the stairways at the Tuileries during balls and official receptions . |
| 23 | The Indians collect it in pots and smear it on the tips of their arrows and blow-pipe darts . |
| 24 | Their host , the Rev Kenneth MacAulay , great-uncle of Thomas Babington of that name , had sent a letter explaining that he could not meet them in Nairn : his priestly duties detained him in Cawdor — to which Boswell adds a footnote . |
| 25 | In addition , those rivalries enabled him in peacetime to go on playing his wartime role of common denominator ; the arbiter who remained detached from conflicts of particular interests ; the provider of unity . |
| 26 | One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic . |
| 27 | FOURTEEN-year-old Manoel Jorge Santos had no idea of the perils awaiting him in Sao Paulo when he fled from a broken home and brawling stepfather , trudging 50 miles to the city 's cathedral square in search of a new life . |
| 28 | Caledor raised his own standard and called for all true Elves to join him in defence of the realm . |
| 29 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 30 | The family man in his complex tripart personality is still as affable as ever , and his two sons joined him in London when his marriage broke up . |