Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 2 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 3 | Stuart is too good to be kept on the sidelines at a time when England have looked to include him in the B squad as the next stage of his international career . |
| 4 | The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates . |
| 5 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
| 6 | This booklet is designed to point you in the right direction if you have a problem or complaint and explain when you might be entitled to compensation . |
| 7 | The Code of Practice is designed to point you in the right direction if you have a problem or complaint and explains when you might be entitled to compensation . |
| 8 | Agencies are given budgets and are expected to use them in the most efficient way possible . |
| 9 | Madonna has often talked of her Ten Year Plan , a route to megastardom designed to keep her in the manner to which she has quickly become accustomed for years to come too . |
| 10 | He had come to question her in the manner of someone who comes to peer at a freak in a sideshow . |
| 11 | If students in the 1990s have difficulty in distinguishing all the political parties and coalitions that sprang up in Petrograd after the February Revolution , how could a peasant in 1917 be expected to assimilate them in the place of the Tsar , who at least represented a more easily understood form of political authority ? |
| 12 | Franco conducted it on his own terms , however , which meant that it was so gradual as to be barely perceptible at times , and designed to show him in the most favourable light possible . |
| 13 | Only those who have shown the resolve to defend the freedom of the West can be trusted to safeguard it in the challenging , turbulent and unpredictable times that lie ahead . ’ |
| 14 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 15 | These types of individuals are the ones who are said to stab you in the back in order to achieve their ends ; and ( b ) the conservers — motivated by the desire to retain the status quo . |
| 16 | Being an unabashed admirer of the Guardian 's Notes & Queries column , I have decided to flatter it in the sincerest way possible . |
| 17 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 18 | They say they have obtained my name and address from an agency : clearly they have decided to market them in the North-East in a big way . ’ |
| 19 | Determined but polite efforts were made to interest her in the purchase of tomatoes , plums , oranges , artichokes , mussels , scallops , chickens and even a swordfish steak . |
| 20 | ( d ) Recognise the medium of the message — for example , the style , language , form or mode of expression may in themselves be of importance , and some attempt should be made to convey them in the precis . |
| 21 | ‘ Soliciting … she was known to have men at her house and was seen to stop them in the street . |
| 22 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 23 | I agree with what [ the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland president ] said in a recent issue of CA about the importance of non-financial performance measurement , and you 've got to set it in the context that managers and the board ca n't exist on just an analysis of the general ledger . ’ |
| 24 | well you 've got to do it in the winter so |
| 25 | This feedback will be used to guide us in the possible uses of the tape when we come to launching the 4th edition in early 1990 , which will be the published version of the tape . |
| 26 | You 've got to put them in the order so you can see him , but the other person ca n't |
| 27 | Nick Wirth says its like dribbling the ball around the goalmouth … they 've got to put it in the net … he 's confident but not over confident … they will do their best |
| 28 | It seems likely , moreover , that the police deliberately avoided mixing it in the more perilous districts . |
| 29 | Officials usually knew who they were , though they could not obtain the evidence needed to convict them in the courts . |
| 30 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |