Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] in [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 2 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 3 | Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance . |
| 4 | If a power of appointment , either in law or in fact , is vested in trade unions , the effect is not only to arrogate to them rights attaching only to ownership , but to establish them in this particular matter as the constitutional equals of Parliament . |
| 5 | this is a school one , yeah , they have to write them in this little |
| 6 | ‘ To find me in rollicking good humour , basking in my good fortune ? ’ |
| 7 | Do you have any idea how long it 's taken me to find you in this God-forsaken place ? |
| 8 | He expected Caterina to be there to tell him that Rosalba absolutely refused to meet him in such compromising circumstances and considered him a blackguard and a monster even to suggest such an assignation . |
| 9 | ‘ As I work with the prints all day I would get so bored if I wore them as well , ’ she once told an American interviewer , who expressed surprise to find her in such plain clothes . |
| 10 | The vision of the vain , silly girl she had been seemed to accuse her in some obscure way . |
| 11 | She thought she had begun to know him in those intimate moments . |
| 12 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |
| 13 | They had been lucky to find it in this hilly and heavily forested terrain . |
| 14 | From what Morse said it looks as though he was trying to flog it in some under-the-counter deal , but I do n't see how it helps us . ’ |
| 15 | If y you know if you 're content to , to pocket five hundred pounds , they 'll never be able to discover it in fifteen thousand . |
| 16 | Give us grace to show and to share Jesus with individuals this week , and help us to serve Him in one another , and to love as he loves us . |
| 17 | Gabriel took over John Coffin 's neglected cup and began to drink it in anxious little sips . |
| 18 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 19 | Afterwards , Lord Sterling sent a facsimile message from Britannia to Buffalo , which read : ‘ Delighted to see you in such splendid company on this great occasion . ’ |
| 20 | I in fact , half the rubber you , cos yo unless you order them and buy them like we used to buy them in some big packets but erm , you buy them in a shop , you buy them and they 've got teatles right across the middle have n't they ? |
| 21 | Indeed , political argument , policy-making and economic analysis were suffused with an increasing flow of statistical data which in range and scale was quite unlike anything which had been experienced before : to such a degree that by the end of the period under review the rate at which data were being generated exceeded , probably by a wide margin , the capacity to apply them in practical economic action . |
| 22 | Mr. Kemp is entitled to his opinions but why he chooses to express them in such flippant and dismissive manner is puzzling . |
| 23 | A choreographer should translate this definition into dance terms thus : taking the moods , emotions and actions expressed , understood and observed by everyone in general and using natural gestures when applying the rules of choreographic grammar without trying to express them in any other way . |
| 24 | Did they try to victimize you in any other way ? |
| 25 | He was n't , however , going to help her in any other way . |
| 26 | You would n't want to hear it in public first , would you ? " |
| 27 | Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) . |
| 28 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 29 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 30 | So why did they think that they had the er means to do it in nineteen forty seven ? |