Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , suppose Come Up And See Me goes in the charts and they ring you up and say , ‘ Steve , how do you fancy going on Top Of The Pops ? ’ |
| 2 | so I goes and gets them goes in the office |
| 3 | So I goes in the house and fetches this trap did n't I ? |
| 4 | A brief account of them occurs in the memoirs of William Tuckwell . |
| 5 | If these fail and she suspects disease she now incorporates the age-old universal remedies such as massage , heat , cooling , gripe water , aspirin , distraction , and , if those do not succeed , she turns in the West to the doctor . |
| 6 | While she dawdles in the Courtyard of the Lions , he departs in a frenzy of whips , elbows , hooves , all rapidly obscured by a dustcloud . |
| 7 | So she plays in the backyard . ’ |
| 8 | Well if you 'd have seen that I mean I and she sleeps in the airing cupboard she 's now started to get in there , but she 's half out on the landing . |
| 9 | When the female settles on her eggs , the male brings lumps of soil , moistened with his saliva , as she sits in the hole . |
| 10 | But at night time , if you 're not in , she sits in the chair waiting |
| 11 | She sits in the passenger seat of the car on her haunches rather like a dowager duchess lacking the string of pearls , and glances about with curiosity . |
| 12 | She sits in the Representative 's office , smoking too many cigarettes . |
| 13 | She writes in the foreword : ‘ However … |
| 14 | And what will undo these effects , she writes in the Postscript , is altered consciousness , and a process of ‘ human growth and tru |
| 15 | In such a sample , the researcher specifies what type of people he or she wants in the sample , within broad categories ( quotas ) , and it is left up to the interviewer to find such people to interview . |
| 16 | As has been often demonstrated , however , this is not the case if we take the representative individual from a group divided on the basis of skin colour , parental occupation , gender or , in England , whether he or she lives in the north or south of the country . |
| 17 | ‘ She lives in the north of England . ’ |
| 18 | Ah ha , you say — that 's just because she lives in the country now . |
| 19 | She lives in the country , it must be a mistake . |
| 20 | She lives in the country . |
| 21 | ‘ She lives in the village , only five minutes from here . |
| 22 | so nice , she lives in the village , she 's erm what is she , Indian or something ? |
| 23 | ‘ She lives in the present . |
| 24 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 25 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 26 | She lives in the house next to the Zosers . |
| 27 | She lives in the depths of the country and is a little eccentric , so they say . |
| 28 | Now I know she lives in the Nottingham area now although she 's been widowed quite a few years . |
| 29 | A SUBDUED , tearful Mrs Winnie Mandela announced her resignation yesterday as head of the African National Congress 's social welfare department , the highest office she holds in the organisation . |
| 30 | Organisational authority refers to the scope and amount of discretion given to a person to make decisions , by virtue of the position he or she holds in the organisation . |