Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | My cherished Höfner acoustic guitar recently tried to murder me for leaving it in the boot of the car on a hot sunny day . |
| 2 | Curse me for having nothing in this world to give him but gratitude ! ’ |
| 3 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
| 4 | I found myself hating them , hating myself for hating them , hating myself for wanting to say so , hating them for putting me in a position of wanting to say so . |
| 5 | Surely you no longer suspect me of using you in some devious plan to make Lotta jealous ? ’ |
| 6 | She said , ‘ More fool you for leaving it in a car park , ’ and little Apricot said , ‘ Yes , that 's right , Mum . |
| 7 | Thank you for providing them in 1990 . |
| 8 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 9 | On 6 March 1992 more than 35 agents of the Mobile Military Police cordoned off four blocks of Guatemala City and violently rounded up the street children , handcuffing and beating them before dumping them in a van and taking them to the 2nd precinct police station . |
| 10 | When I arrived at Althorp the housekeeper , Joyce Cole , told me that she had orders banning me from touching anything in the house . |
| 11 | England has an excellent crop of young players , but my role as Captain and Selector precludes me from naming them in these pages . |
| 12 | This can insulate them from considering it in more political terms . |
| 13 | you ca n't stop them from using everything in time |
| 14 | And Whitbread 's taken them over bunging them in everywhere are n't they ? |
| 15 | He also failed to mobilize a heavy turnout amongst black voters , many of whom criticised him for ignoring them in his efforts to woo the white rural electorate . |
| 16 | But then she remembered what the wise old turtle had told her about putting herself in the dog 's place , and doing what she would want to have done to her . |
| 17 | He accused her of smoking it in Marshall 's cottage . |
| 18 | You can go to court for an order to exclude your husband from your home or to forbid him from harassing you in any way . |
| 19 | The owner of a firearm is none the less owner because the law prohibits him from discharging it in a public highway ; the owner of a field does not cease to be owner because the public or a neighbour has the right to use a footpath across it . |
| 20 | Unless it was true , as he 'd alleged , that the women had robbed him before tossing him in the stinking water . |
| 21 | Then they leave them there , in among her own kittens , and when she returns the chances are that she will calmly lie down and let all the kittens feed from her without examining them in detail . |
| 22 | I seem to remember he got away from her by locking himself in his flat with friends for the weekend and they had a jolly good party . |
| 23 | But , as one ex-councillor puts it , ‘ If he ca n't manage to present the Labour Party in new colours in his own constituency , what hope has he of doing it in the country ? ’ |
| 24 | From the spectators ' viewpoint , not only does he provide wonderful entertainment but he does it without encasing himself in a helmet , now so rare as to be a treat in itself . |
| 25 | This legislation , far from doing anything to alleviate this , further compounds it by enshrining it in legislation . |
| 26 | Oh sorry so that 's that 's what it 's what it 's about so what we want to do then over these next two days is to develop the skills of design and delivery and will allow us to do that allow us to improve our performance despite the fact that we do have the nerves and by practice by doing it by putting yourself in the situation where you have to make a presentation and almost as one chap said one time sitting there actually with your sitting there remembering he said actually volunteer to make presentations to the other people there . |
| 27 | Predicating an element foregrounds it by placing it in theme position . |
| 28 | A promise is gratuitous unless the promisee is paying a price for it by giving something in retum . |
| 29 | As long as you are not from London , Mr Bodenland , like all the rest of the tedious world — and as long as your business is not with me — and mercifully private , to boot — perhaps you will honour me by joining me in a glass of claret . |
| 30 | Word meanings are especially liable to change because people learn them by hearing them in context rather than by looking up the ‘ standard ’ definition , and the inferences they draw can vary . |