Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring . |
| 2 | We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union . |
| 3 | We lead more private lives today than ever before , a defence perhaps against the masses who press against us in the tubes , in the office , at school . |
| 4 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |
| 5 | It 's what they all say to me in the end . |
| 6 | When the little ones squeeze past me in the Superette I give their mops the chaste old tousle . |
| 7 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 8 | Wait for me in the office . |
| 9 | So the black-backed gulls wait for them in the air in front of the cliffs , wheeling and circling on the up-draught created as the wind , blowing in from the sea , is deflected upwards . |
| 10 | ‘ If you wish to sit up talking with Claudine , however , or walk with her in the moonlight … ’ |
| 11 | We listen to them in the car . |
| 12 | The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it . |
| 13 | By their day-to-day actions , children can also affect the way in which their parents react to them in the most powerful and direct manner . |
| 14 | But then — if we are taking our time and stay to look at the town as a whole , walk around it in the cool and quiet of the evening when the shops are shut , and the traffic has gone home , and we can really see its contours and its bone-structure — other questions begin to arise in the mind , which even the best of guide-books does not answer . |
| 15 | I did n't even remember her until I read about her in the papers . ’ |
| 16 | I welcomed moves to cut price increases and did not find that they were being done in secret — I read about them in the newspapers and elsewhere . |
| 17 | ‘ I read about it in the newspapers , a terrible tragedy , ’ Nevil sympathized . |
| 18 | ‘ We read about you in the papers , ’ said the anaemic one . |
| 19 | I read about you in the evening paper . |
| 20 | When I read about you in the papers , and then heard you 'd been found , I just had to come . |
| 21 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 22 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 23 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 24 | Having found the appropriate class number from the card , look for it in the subject or classified catalogue and flick through the cards of that particular number . |
| 25 | Look for it in the carpentry section . |
| 26 | Oh , this , this is a very important book of course and one of the , one of the astonishing things is the way totally ignored and if you look through even people who write about psychoanalyses and the social sciences and there 's a lot of them , this book is hardly ever mentioned and I , I normally nowadays routinely look for it in the , in the references and index an and many books th that purport to talk about groups and sociology is never mentioned I think , and those that do do n't ever seem to understand what it says . |
| 27 | They telephone all day ; they run after me in the streets ; they bribe my barber for locks of my hair ; they make my life unbearable . |
| 28 | Ezek. 22.30 — ‘ I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it , but I found none . ’ |
| 29 | Look on it in the same way as the treads on your bike or car tyres . |
| 30 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |