Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun prp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard one say on Danny Baker 's Saturday night show : ‘ Dalglish is to blame for landing Souness in the mire . ’ |
| 2 | The single market is sure to have some impact on EDI use , but the main motivation for adopting EDI in the lean 1990s is competitive pressure . |
| 3 | Wear Valley Council official Ian Bloomfield is to receive official congratulations from members for representing Britain in the Hong Kong Marathon last month . |
| 4 | Hillyard , from Dorset , in 1984 , when aged 14 , became the youngest player , to win the world title , after defeating Fisher in the semi-finals — a result which she repeated in 1987 , only to lose 5-1 in the final to the then 15-year-old Farren . |
| 5 | Andy Robinson 's side may be a blend of the old and the new , but they still look like the side to beat again after demolishing Nottingham in the first round and drawing last year 's losing finalists , Northampton , in the quarter-finals . |
| 6 | After beating Huddersfield in the home leg of the first round Rumbelows Cup Mitch Cook scoring Bobby Gould brought former First Division giants West Brom to Feethams . |
| 7 | After beating Netherfield in the Vase Burscough lost 6-2 at Blackpool Rovers . |
| 8 | Guinness around the world , part three : these three girls are largely responsible for promoting Guinness in the south-east Asian country of Vietnam , where Foreign Extra Stout was introduced last year . |
| 9 | Leading a band of forty-five lodges up the Valley of Winding Waters in the summer of 1875 , Joseph found two companies of cavalry under Captain Whipple stationed there as a peace-keeping force . |
| 10 | Israel , on the other hand , was eager to restore relations and intelligence contacts with Iran ; Israel leaned towards favouring Iran in the war ; and what Israel wanted , America rarely resisted . |
| 11 | Later , as a ‘ Christian evangelist ’ , Gary would speak of meeting God in the hours of comparative tranquillity on the prison roof . |
| 12 | But he remained hopeful of securing Walden in the future , for he ‘ would be the making of the Leeds City team if only I could get him to Elland Road ’ . |
| 13 | They argue that democratic theory needs to be adjusted to the realities of governing Britain in the twentieth century . |
| 14 | Norman Girvan 's ( 1976 ) study of mining TNCs in the Caribbean evocatively labels this relationship ‘ Corporate Imperialism ’ . |
| 15 | None of these Jews — half of whom were women and children — had any intention of revisiting Germany in the near future . |
| 16 | Starting with Hereford 's dreams of reaching Wembley in the Sherpa Van trophy which were blown away last night by the Wolves . |
| 17 | The authors suggest that the lists can contribute towards decisions on disapplications and modifications : ‘ These should help to decide whether a child is capable of reaching ATs in the areas covered by the scales ’ ( Webster and Webster 1990 : 9 ) . |
| 18 | It could well be that Matadial was thoroughly discredited , even as the case ran , but with advance information her demolition could have been more clinically achieved , with perhaps a greater effect on the jury and with a better chance of involving Zaidie in the destruction of the Crown case on motive and malice . |
| 19 | The Emperor , however , had not sought power simply in order to dazzle contemporaries with spectacle , but rather with the aim of putting France in the forefront of general progress and restoring her to what he considered to be her rightful place in Europe . |
| 20 | Sometimes he talked of marrying Gina in the sixties to give her citizenship . |
| 21 | Grateful for the Burford man 's help , Seb told him of finding Anna in the Wychwood Forest , adding , ‘ It 's lucky she did n't die before we found her . |
| 22 | While well pleased to have won the privilege of confronting Bath in the cup final , mid-table Quins are mindful of overall responsibilities to other clubs . |
| 23 | I think he was more than capable of shooting Barak in the back . |
| 24 | Last night , he said : ‘ I will miss the glory of beating Bowe in the ring . ’ |
| 25 | Lagan Valley finished last and , despite beating RUC in the last meeting , could not avoid the drop to division two . |
| 26 | A short time later it had a change of heart , however , and indicted the publisher-cum-bookseller Edmund Curll for selling Venus in the Cloister , or the Nun in her Smock which was a spicy tale of lesbian nuns , first published in France in 1682 . |
| 27 | It was a disappointing night for Swindon Town too … they could only draw nil-nil against struggling Birmingham in the league … |
| 28 | This instinctive anti-Americanism was revealed most clearly during the Gulf War , in which the pretence that the Basic Law prevented them from sending troops was a mere figleaf for their initial failure to offer any political support to the American-led campaign ( Genscher remained silent for a week after the fighting began , although he and Kohl tried to make amends later ) and for their inexcusable prevarication about supporting Turkey in the event of an attack by Iraq . |
| 29 | Kelly was excellent though he was mighty lucky to get away with tugging Giggs in the first minute . |
| 30 | Yeah , what about doing Jack in the Box ? |