Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed somehow deeper , as if its roots lay hidden in the past . |
| 2 | So do you know when you do you know when you erm I mean lived in the flats in the flats for fifteen years , have you managed to make many friends ? |
| 3 | He said that the USA was " a Pacific nation and we intend to remain in the Pacific for the long haul " . |
| 4 | The suggestions they make build in the views described in section 9-3-1 , as follows : |
| 5 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 6 | Single specimens , even if very brightly coloured , tend to disappear in the shadows , whereas they will be more conspicuous planted in a block especially if supported by masses of healthy green foliage : ferns for a splash of colour . |
| 7 | In general , the rules leading to higher rates of survival and reproduction tend to increase in the population . |
| 8 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 9 | Their problem is their flower buds tend to swell in the winter and can be damaged by frost or winds . |
| 10 | Can you be more explicit about what it is you want to see in the North Yorkshire structure plan ? |
| 11 | Once you have formulated your idea of what you want to see in the future , then you need to focus on how you can get there . |
| 12 | It will certainly make you see how much you do not see , and then you can decide how much you want to see in the future . |
| 13 | You want to go in the tunnel ? |
| 14 | Yeah and er , I said to Jane now I said now look before I go to Preston , I want to go in the pub |
| 15 | erm there 's two guys want to go in the Marines in mine anyway and so they 're paying erm , A levels of fifteen hundred quid for one of them . |
| 16 | Want to go in the garden ? |
| 17 | I want to go in the garden . |
| 18 | Finally , decide which learning points you want to implement in the future and work out an action plan which covers : |
| 19 | Select the graphs and text charts you want to include in the screen show by dragging their icon over the screenshow icon — simple as that . |
| 20 | If we are outside , we shall not enjoy the advantages of a single currency or have the investment in this country of those companies — our own and overseas firms — which want to invest in the core of Europe and enjoy full access to all that goes on in Europe . |
| 21 | Some want to invest in the island and get some kind of tourism going . ’ |
| 22 | Because I , I want to sit in the room where they 're both gon na be facing not sitting like an odd dog right . |
| 23 | ‘ Inmates want to work in the kitchen because it means they can be out of their cells for most of the day and can have a bit of extra food , ’ he says . |
| 24 | I was just commenting er , you know , we just want to work in the County of Lincolnshire , I presume . |
| 25 | argue for a preparation stage for all reading comprehension in which students should both predict what they expect to find in the discourse from |
| 26 | If you want to get an article into a particular magazine , you need to read that magazine , you need to see how they present certain articles , how they actually approach certain things , and then write what you want to write in the house style . |
| 27 | I want to pull in the anchor with you and save the whale with you and bear a big child with you and live with you and know that we will never die . |
| 28 | If we genuinely want to participate in the population debates , as opposed simply to joining the chop-off-their-willies brigade of population controllers , then we must try to understand those reasons . |
| 29 | While Fisher is right to argue that some important principles can , nevertheless , be applied , he is also right to say that the consumerist philosophy and concepts of compulsory care which involve acting in the individual 's interests are basically incompatible . |
| 30 | Now , the seminar session that I 'm going to run , we can eith we 'll have Jeannie set up but we can sort of kick off with a discussion about topics that you want to cover in the revision |