Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I visit my home city of Manchester , or travel to London , New Age-types seem to greet me in every other conversation . |
| 2 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 3 | We had some discussion at somewhere , that we decided that erm to include them in the divisional training , Yeah . |
| 4 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 5 | They wanted to kill me in a horrific way , to frighten those who work in defence of human rights . |
| 6 | An intelligence , guided by a purpose , must be continually in action to bias the direction of the steps of change — to regulate their amount — to limit their divergence — and to continue them in a definite course … |
| 7 | Yet in Greek philosophy , it appears , these two senses of to be were not always very clearly distinguished from each other , and sometimes moreover there was a strong tendency to amalgamate them in a single concept . " |
| 8 | Not so High Rocks , whose owners have steadily raised their admission charges in the last few years , threatened climbers with access restrictions , and put nothing at all back into the maintenance of the rocks , save to enclose them in a sturdy , reinforced fence . |
| 9 | Maggie clung to the privacy of her room , as small children do to their teddy bears ; she never invited her friends there , preferring to contain them in the large sitting-room below . |
| 10 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 11 | Especially unusual to find them in a Tyrian , because as a rule Tyrians only care about making money . |
| 12 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 13 | When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities . |
| 14 | Teaching materials usually provide very little in the way of explicit rationale which would enable teachers to modify them in a principled way with reference to the ideas which inform them . |
| 15 | I settled for the party in Fulham on Bunny 's recommendation , arranging to meet him in a trendy pub in Covent Garden beforehand . |
| 16 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 17 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 18 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 19 | She wanted dearly to inform him in no uncertain terms that he was in no position to make personal remarks of any kind to her , but she had an uneasy suspicion that any further rebukes on that score would only somehow backfire on her . |
| 20 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 21 | When in the " sick Chicken " case of 1935 the Supreme Court ruled against the act , declaring Federal code-making an unconstitutional interference with the authority of the separate states , Roosevelt made no attempt to revive it in a new form . |
| 22 | To recognize the value present in a situation ( he urges ) is not merely to have an attitude which someone else who conceives the ‘ factual character ’ of the situation in exactly the same way might lack , but to conceive it in a particular kind of way which could not be duplicated in someone not thus drawn to it . |
| 23 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 24 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 25 | He smiled and opened it , surprised to find it in the original Mandarin . |
| 26 | It is unclear just when this happens one is unlikely to be able to observe it in a casual experiment at the kitchen sink — but Fig. 24.7 shows observations made by varying the pressure behind a suitably shaped nozzle . |
| 27 | ‘ For stealing household goods and trying to sell them in the surrounding villages . ’ |
| 28 | Pupils got on so well with the decorators when the school got its first brush-up for more than a decade that they decided to remember them in a life-size painting . |
| 29 | According to the theory of social representation , anchoring is a mechanism which ‘ strives to anchor strange ideas , to reduce them to ordinary categories and images , to set them in a familiar context ’ ( Moscovici , ‘ 1983 : 29 , emphasis in original ) . |
| 30 | As a lover , he had bored her , but she liked the idea of his having to steel himself to visit her in the filthy venue she had chosen for their affair . |