Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have long enough to lose yourself in Fragonard 's world , Charlie . |
| 2 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 3 | An impromptu purchase , and a bit extravagant , but remaining tidily or prettily dressed is an important investment in job search , marriage and social life , so I try only to slum it in track suit at weekends and totally quiet evenings at home . |
| 4 | It seemed outrageously unfair that after so long she could not have him to herself and she hoped that his lodger would be tactful enough to leave them in peace during her visit . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the real value of land is constant ; and capital invested in it will not deteriorate with inflation ; in the long term the purchase of a smallholding even at inflated prices , can make sense if the buyer can hold back enough to put it in order , and stock and equip it . |
| 6 | ‘ They ran sheep here in those days , so I imagine she did , if only to keep him in socks . ’ |
| 7 | CATHERINE If I did , it was probably only to keep you in order . |
| 8 | Fair enough — but why had the planets been cruel enough to land her in partnership with the one man in the universe who could drive her crazy with wanting , even as he was — well , just driving her crazy ! |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm hoping to meet a man rich enough to keep me in comfort so I can indulge my every whim and fancy and give up work for good , ’ she said drily . |
| 10 | If a wheel starts to spin , the brake attached to it squeezes just enough to keep it in check while the engine throttles back . |
| 11 | Perhaps to keep herself in countenance she opened her notebook although he knew that she would not refer to it . |
| 12 | This , for Nelson , is the soul of Berlioz 's art , the musical equivalent of jeweller setting gemstones in precious metal , not merely to hold them in place , but to show them off to their greatest advantage . |
| 13 | ‘ She has made a super fitness video and the advance royalties together with her earnings from a Swedish TV chat show have helped financially , but they are not enough to maintain her in Beverly Hills luxury . |
| 14 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 15 | My hon. Friend was kind enough to tell me in answer to a question on the third problem , asking him whether he would make the east-west A427 a trunk road , that it came under the county council 's responsibility for bypasses . |
| 16 | The brief answers required will oblige candidates to relate and use information across the passage , not merely to reproduce it in sequence . |
| 17 | These probabilities were not used to rule out alternatives , rather to rank them in terms of their likelihood . |
| 18 | Just to put it in mind . |
| 19 | J just to put it in perspective |
| 20 | No well I was , I was just telling him something and I said I 'm not telling you till er ten thirty just to keep him in suspense . |
| 21 | It must take up all of your spare time just to keep it in tune . |
| 22 | This is not to deny the importance of inter-war industrial change — just to get it in perspective relative to the much more profound restructuring of the recent past . |
| 23 | Even Peter Thorneycroft , the veteran proto-monetarist of 1958 whom she had made Party Chairman , proved to be a ‘ one-nation ’ man at heart , and she was eventually to sack him in favour of a little-tried new favourite , Cecil Parkinson , the Paymaster-General . |
| 24 | Monsignore de Haerne had previously already founded Catholic institutions for the deaf in Belgium , France and Portugal and was later to found one in India . |
| 25 | But also to put them in position whereby in the future , as the needs for further services emerge , they will be able erm , to , to contribute with the department for , for those services for that er , appropriate funding . |
| 26 | When he accepted a call from Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1911 the Mayor and Corporation of Birmingham tried unsuccessfully to keep him in Birmingham . |
| 27 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 28 | To know properly to mix them in planting is another matter of painting with living pencils , for greens properly disposed throw in a mixture of contrasts of lights and shades which wonderfully enliven the pictures and which insensibly strike the senses with wonder and delight . |
| 29 | With Mel Blyth alongside and John Jackson in goal , John was part of the triumvirate who did most to keep us in Division one for four seasons . |
| 30 | It was just — ’ She turned to face him more fully , curious now to see him in technicolour . |