Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |
| 2 | Yeah i well he 's just distressed cos I think Gill 's phoning him in the morning and she said she 'd give him a lift to the hospital . |
| 3 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 4 | ‘ What I want now is to know who in the last month has been here to buy arsenic and belladonna ? |
| 5 | The next task is to tackle them in the most sensible way . |
| 6 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 7 | And I said , If somebody 's serving somebody in the shop and perhaps they you know two of three of them perhaps together , I said , but do n't talk in the shop I said , go through to the back if you want to chat . |
| 8 | Previous verbosely titled flops had been Oh Dad , Poor Dad , Mamma 's Hung You in the Closet and I 'm Feelin' So Sad ( which also had Barbara Harris in it ) and Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness ? |
| 9 | So we need to be looking forward , but we ought to be looking short-term , so the best way to look at objectives , is to look it in the short-term , which is in fact , year one if you like , medium term , years two and three , and long-term , years four and five . |
| 10 | ‘ Captain Hook 's drowned hisself in the river , ’ he babbled . |
| 11 | However , if he happens also to run a business and sells one of the cars in circumstances suggesting that he is selling it in the course of that business , then he is likely to be regarded as doing just that , Southwark London Borough v. Charlesworth ( paragraph 9–20 above ) . |
| 12 | The benefit of this will be apparent when a force ten westerly has sent your brolly to Holland and is pummelling you in the face . |
| 13 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 14 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 15 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 16 | Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them . |
| 17 | One useful trick is to put yourself in the position of their bank manager and ask what conditions you would impose before lending them any more money . |
| 18 | he 's getting it in the gones . |
| 19 | Never face discomfort till it 's staring you in the face . ’ |
| 20 | It 's like it 's there and it 's staring us in the face but I just ca n't … ca n't access it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says . |
| 22 | Claire is sewing something in the comer . |
| 23 | ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again . |
| 24 | It is staring us in the face . |
| 25 | ‘ The need for the introduction of internment is staring us in the face , ’ Mr Maginnis insisted . |
| 26 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 27 | We wait until trouble comes , until trouble is staring us in the face , before we really feel the need of God , and pray . |
| 28 | ‘ The truth is staring you in the face , but you 're too blind to see it . |
| 29 | The appeal runs until the end of this year and is asking everyone in the country to take part in a sponsored swim . |
| 30 | Cos you know one of the people says that the best place for it is to lob it in the arboretum lake . |