Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were still going slowly and painfully round the room when Estella brought in the relations who had been waiting downstairs . |
| 2 | Some of these might , I am sure , change their opinion as Wheen fills in the gaps and rounds off an account of a long career that began in 1920s aesthetic Oxford and finished in a heart attack in a London taxi almost 50 years later . |
| 3 | The back-channel reports on DEA operations that he had transmitted twice a week from his arrival in Cyprus were on file in a classified computer data bank , codenamed EMERALD , at Bolling Airforce Base , near Washington , and the first order of business upon his return was a systematic debriefing at a hotel near Fort Meade to fill in the gaps . |
| 4 | Sam breathed in the scents of fabulous nameless blooms , massed motionless , cold and in every variant of grey imaginable in the moonlight . |
| 5 | ‘ Clever stuff , ’ exclaimed Tom as Edith brought in the puddings . |
| 6 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |
| 7 | BOGNOR Send in the clowns Beadle loses the battle of Bognor to the Batband . |
| 8 | After two and a half years , Mr Lawrence brought in the consultants , McKinsey & Co . |