Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] in [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group . |
| 2 | Look at them closely before closing your eyes and trying to see them in your mind . |
| 3 | When our daughter Rebecca was three she came to see me in my office one day and said , ‘ Daddy , you 're the leader of the church , and you know everything . ’ |
| 4 | I was sitting in my office smoking one of James 's cigarettes — not the best thing , perhaps , for the queasiness I was still feeling , but I hoped it might calm my juddering nerves — when a poked page-boy knocked on my door and said the Old Man wanted to see me in his suite . |
| 5 | He came to see me in our hotel the night before we came to this country , and … |
| 6 | If it manages to kill me in my sleep one night , you 'll be as badly off as you were before . ’ |
| 7 | and especially those who have no faith in God to sustain them in their grief … |
| 8 | It constitutes an offering to the Gods , or universal forces , to sustain them in their task of maintaining the world , directing its manifold generative activities and at the same time ensuring protection against the sometimes malevolent forces of the Graha , or nine planets . |
| 9 | As parents , teachers , and librarians , we wish to encourage young people and to support them in their search for understanding , expression , and confidence . |
| 10 | The Goths , the Franks , the Angles and the Saxons had converted to Christianity but in the absence of an effective establishment to instruct them in their faith it inevitably remained superficial . |
| 11 | Please nominate a divisional representative to meet me in my office at 4.00 pm on Thursday , 19 November 1992 , to discuss the proposed security measures outlined in my report to Directorate ( copy attached ) . |
| 12 | You were , after all , the first person — with that nice near neighbour of yours who we went to visit one evening — to encourage me in my poetry , a fact I shall not forget . |
| 13 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 14 | My eyes started to blink and a lump stuck in my throat … if you have ever seen a dog barking in French , wagging not only its rudder but its complete hind quarters , and trying to punch you in your chest at the same time — there you have Emily 's welcome in a nut-shell . |
| 15 | When you had a chance to meet him in his house with his guests , he was a most charming and intelligent man . |
| 16 | Now , he was more than slightly taken aback to find her in his room . |
| 17 | He arranged to meet her in his local . |
| 18 | It will toss it into the air with its front paws , then try to catch it in its mouth as it comes down . |
| 19 | Furthermore , he never asked me to write it in his place . |
| 20 | Tuesday the seventh when , I 've just got to write it in my book you see because I have n't gone that far ahead . |
| 21 | It sounds awful , but I did n't want to help her open it — I wanted to smash it in her face . |
| 22 | ‘ Yet she made it known to Brother Tutilo , ’ retorted Herluin , burning up in his turn , ‘ that she has felt compassion towards afflicted Ramsey , and wishes to benefit us in our distress . |
| 23 | Because you come to meet us in your Mass |
| 24 | Whether to lock me in me room , or let me out and do what I wanted to do . |
| 25 | They did n't know what was going on , like , did n't know what to do , whether to lock me in me room , or let me out and do what I wanted to do , but in the end , like , I just did n't come back here for a coupla months . |
| 26 | For some teachers , then , the presence of examinations seems to constrain them in their approach to classroom teaching ; it limits innovation and inhibits their willingness to explore new teaching strategies . |
| 27 | They are shown as separate locations only because Drachenfels was able to visit them in whatever order he chose , and characters might somehow be able to by-pass one terrain to get to another in the sequence . |
| 28 | If you want to deal with the issue face to face , ask for an appointment , either in the local office or for an officer to visit you in your home . |
| 29 | ‘ He is the man who murdered my father and sister when he attacked Tracy Castle , who made my other sister 's life such a hell that she killed herself rather than endure it any longer , and who then would have forced me to wed him in her place . ’ |
| 30 | She may wish you to accompany her to his office or to be present if he is to visit her in her home , and he will be pleased to have your co-operation . |