Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 2 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 3 | The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades . |
| 4 | He smiled encouragingly , and Juliet was gratified by his attempt to include her in the conversation . |
| 5 | But because of its fierce realism and deep antipathy to authority ( whether it comes in the guise of nationalism or Catholicism , ) this culture is likely to resist any attempt to include it in the cosy consensus of Dublin as Europe 's cultural capital . |
| 6 | It should be noted this is a Post Graduate course , and it is not our intention to include it in the main embalming course . |
| 7 | The unitary , all embracing , concept of man which is postulated by such expressions as " Anthropology is the science of man " is really a by-product of the post-Cartesian attempt to objectify everything in the world , to view human relationships as commodities , to see everything as quantifiable and predictable and governed by simple laws of cause and effect . |
| 8 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 9 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
| 10 | For centuries therefore , statute has placed a limit on the time after which a claimant to an interest in land may bring an action to establish it in the face of the possession of another person holding under a later title … |
| 11 | It is always a pleasure to meet you in the field and I appreciate your commitment to creating a better housing business and providing greater satisfaction for our customers . |
| 12 | I 've sent Tuathal with a hundred horse to catch them in the ravine at Glen Farg . ’ |
| 13 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 14 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 15 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 16 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 17 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 18 | Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand . |
| 19 | It gives him great pleasure to incarnate himself in the shape of man as Christ himself did . |
| 20 | An action followed which in the next few years captured many of those leaders with a superior ideology . |
| 21 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 22 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 23 | What if she does n't want to be swollen to the size of an elephant with a bleeding parasite kicking her in the guts day and night ? |
| 24 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |
| 25 | It is not a fixed asset as there is no intention to use it in the business . |
| 26 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 27 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 28 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 29 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 30 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |