Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Belated thanks for a delicious buffet the other night and , more particularly , for including me in such a happy occasion . |
2 | Two of these are worthy of a wider audience and thus I make no apology for including them in this month 's Surgery ! |
3 | A sense of inner worth , and the talent for reflecting it in outer forms and appearances . |
4 | The other was the search in living tissues for the carriers or agents which determined these properties , i.e. the genes responsible for producing them in successive generations . |
5 | He says that the council is obliged by the government to take full responsibility for young offenders — and that includes paying for keeping them in secure units . |
6 | It suggests that there has been hitherto no perceived need for local authorities to assert the right for denying which in 1891 the court was severely criticised , or to use the right which was held to exist by Browne J. , to whom no submissions were made based on article 10 , in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 in 1972 . |
7 | ACTOR Clint Eastwood 's fan club has folded — after asking him in vain for a fistful of dollars . |
8 | He suffered burns to his upper body after dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight outside the offices of former girlfriend Sandra Sturgiss . |
9 | Paul Keywood , 13 , and his 11-year-old brother Nathan saved the little boy 's life after discovering him in freezing conditions wrapped in only a towel . |
10 | Mr Behbehanian , his banker , who believed that the British controlled every event in Iran , was still pressing him to repair there and to apologize to the British for insulting them in recent years . |
11 | As his hand came to her arm she lashed out at him and he caught her close to save himself the trouble of subduing her in any other way . |
12 | The advantage of using them in this situation is their low cost and the speed with which the wall can be built up . |
13 | Surely you no longer suspect me of using you in some devious plan to make Lotta jealous ? ’ |
14 | You , you can set as your tar as one of your targets to er you know just t t to sort of make it in smaller steps that you will have appraised two of your staff in th in |
15 | The challenges facing it were daunting : a considerable proportion of the UN was opposed to its existence ; the predominant political forces in south Korea regarded it simply as providing a veneer of international respectability for the creation of a south Korean state ; north Korea had no intention of helping it in any way and the United States believed the commission should complete its task swiftly and without asking awkward questions . |
16 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
17 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
18 | Other people may be frightened by your blunt arrogance , but do n't make the mistake of including me in that category … |
19 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
20 | Sorry we should never of let them in first |
21 | And you you you have to sort of attack it in that way . |
22 | I had worked hard while I was on Amantani , reconstructing the bones of my experiences without the satisfaction of cradling them in apposite language . |
23 | That this is the common apprehension of mankind with regard to perception is evident from the manner of expressing it in all languages . |
24 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
25 | Beyond the odd after-show beer , theirs is a devotion to the regime of immersing themselves in glorious music and trying to say something pertinent with it . |
26 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
27 | The men and women of the past saw the same physical universe that we did , but their way of seeing it was quite different ; their way of describing it in written form more different still . |
28 | Thus we agreed a way of phasing it in that reduced the cost of introduction but provided no disruption for those nearest retirement . |
29 | Now come on you lot of get one in this box ! |
30 | But dumb animals are incapable of considering themselves in this light ; which is not to imply that human beings always do , only that they can normally be expected to if required . |