Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 2 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 3 | ‘ Lustig ’ is the quality missing here but , having said that , I found plenty to enjoy in this seldom aired repertory . |
| 4 | The impetus which drove them to expand in all directions from this base is not fully explained . |
| 5 | All those to , yeah well I told you to put in this morning . |
| 6 | Told him to look in any time — just to walk in , sit down , take his shoes off , and make himself at home ! |
| 7 | She thought more about losing the coal to Mrs Phipps than about Granny , it seemed to me then , but I expect it was the shock that caused her to react in that way . |
| 8 | As a student I supplemented my grant by joining the Officer Training Corps , which not only brought me many good friends but also allowed me to participate in various outdoor activities such as abseiling , pot-holing , parachuting and canoeing . |
| 9 | It was the ICF who realised that looking casual allowed them to travel in large numbers and remain undetected by the police . |
| 10 | ‘ Who allowed you to sleep in this room ? |
| 11 | Winnie allowed herself to indulge in happy daydreams for some five minutes , and then pulled herself together sharply . |
| 12 | Although the radio monitoring system used by Siobhan Fahey allowed her to indulge in some frenzied dancing during the songs , it did her no favours in the vocal projection stakes . |
| 13 | After two years he moved to Border Television in Carlisle where being part of a small team allowed him to dabble in all areas of production . |
| 14 | Bangor finally shook themselves to run in three tries , helped enormously by some comical Collegians defending . |
| 15 | Bennett , on the other hand , had my absolute loyalty and to witness him in action led one to understand in later years what Lord Reith — founder Director of the BBC — meant when he said " I was never fully stretched " . |
| 16 | Remember when I ordered you to strip in that hut ? |
| 17 | James Brown only owed Bance 8s 6d which , if he had paid earlier , he would not have found increased by 3s 6d costs which Judge William Furner ordered him to pay in monthly instalments of 4s on top of his debt . |
| 18 | This led him to investigate in more detail the effect of alcohol on chromosome segregation at about the time of conception , and its effects on early development of the mouse embryo in vivo . |
| 19 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 20 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 21 | Similarly , my stay in the guest house in Hyderabad , though somewhat less pleasant , enabled me to keep in close touch with the staff and students of the CIEFL . |
| 22 | Yes , because this is describing , analysing how ordinary people lived , what was going on that enabled them to live in this way . |
| 23 | When Jancey persuaded them to sit in next door , none of them were too sure how heavy these guys would turn out to be . |
| 24 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 25 | Indeed so ‘ brilliant ’ was Mr Wyatt that his erstwhile inamorata once persuaded him to engage in carnal activity on board an aeroplane . |
| 26 | ‘ Nobody really knew what to do in that situation , ’ says Ken Berry . |
| 27 | Cezar , Bailey 's Brazilian butler , later recalled that he never knew what to expect in those days . |
| 28 | Fortunately , the following morning I had nothing to do in particular , so I had a chance to live through a vague sense of hangover . |
| 29 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 30 | Ill health forced him to retire in 1915 . |