Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As we went to press , the OMG expected to have in hand eight submissions representing some 25 companies .
2 BRIAN CLOUGH loves to stand in front of the TV cameras saying : ‘ I should pack all this up …
3 Snegur asked to stay in office pending direct presidential elections , but the Moldavian Supreme Soviet refused his resignation , and instead formed a commission to formulate proposals to reform executive power in Moldavia .
4 Would Johnny appear to hang in mid-air , suspended on some invisible support hidden from the interested gaze of Cassie 's contemporaries ?
5 Dana came to stop in front of a large café .
6 Then he was sweeping through the doorway of the main reception-room , with Shiona having to hurry in order to keep pace with him .
7 Lucy had to stay in bed as much as possible on doctor 's orders , Dad was spending more and more time on the golf course and in the pub to escape from what he called the ‘ pressures ’ , and Charles was in an increasingly pessimistic mood about the future of Chester 's .
8 Most SIDs continued to occur in winter , with nearly twice as many between January and March compared with June to August .
9 In 1706 , after his victory at Turin , Prince Eugene had to interfere in person to prevent a general massacre of the French wounded by the imperial forces ; and after the battle of Zorndorf in 1758 many of the wounded Russians left on the field were buried alive by Prussian soldiers and local peasants .
10 Paul Levantiére continued to pin in silence .
11 When Khmara refused to appear in court , an order was issued for his appearance , and on July 18 , 30 OMON troops and militia broke into his hotel bedroom and rearrested him .
12 Firstly , the Bank of England ceased to announce in advance the rate at which it would provide assistance .
13 Finance minister Tsutomu Hata needs to have in mind a more convincing package of measures than last week 's widely expected damp squib to get Japan Inc back into top gear .
14 All the Shermans turned to watch in alarm as the captain dashed away down the companionway , dragging a revolver from inside his white uniform tunic .
15 By the end of the year Hearn hopes to have in place six development officers and two principals .
16 The increasing numbers of colleges approaching the CNAA had to do in part with difficulties over validation by universities — particularly those which were unwilling or reluctant to validate honours degrees — and in part with the attraction of the CNAA as a validating body which could consider a range of courses , including those in the areas of proposed diversification .
17 If Nisodemus wanted to stand in front of a car then that was all right by them .
18 ISS agreed to provide in return the skill of planning the menus , ordering and preparing the food and , above all , the recruitment and training of the work-force employed in the canteens .
19 Her police back-up Rover failed to stop in time and ploughed into her beloved cherry-red Mercedes 500SL .
20 He had become Denmark 's most popular footballer , outstripping the likes of Michael Laudrup , and suddenly every boy in Copenhagen wants to play in goal .
21 Both coxes were warned again at the Crab Tree , where Cambridge began to show in front .
22 Matching this positive development on the sales side , Lyle continue to invest in quality .
23 After the Restoration Robinson continued to serve in Parliament , although he and his allies in London were spectacularly defeated in the election of 1661 .
24 Mary Neal began to call in doubt the authenticity of Kimber 's version of the dances , but Sharp used Kimber , who supported him throughout the battles , as his yardstick of what the morris should be .
25 Such stalwarts as Chairman Peter Harris , Hon Treasurer and Welfare Officer Tom Smith and Hon Secretary Roger Draper continue to serve in spite of all the pressures of work in this uncertain environment .
26 The visit to Newcastle is part of a brief UK tour to get in shape for a major world tour which begins later this year .
27 Thus , Pace argues , Corbett can not serve as the authority on which Parker J. wished to rely in Tan .
28 Students in China continued to rally in support of democracy despite government bans , threats and to deliberate flooding of Tiananmen Square in Peking , where protesters gathered on the ice which formed .
29 Travellers from Bulawayo to South Africa have to go in convoy .
30 And Rovers coach George Fairburn revealed : ‘ Gary seems to grow in confidence the more he plays .
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