Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had some discussion at somewhere , that we decided that erm to include them in the divisional training , Yeah . |
| 2 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 3 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 4 | Yes I w I I would think so I mean it it wo n't occur in five minutes of course erm and I I would still say that I would like to see them in the six yard box more often . |
| 5 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 15 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 16 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 17 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 18 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 19 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 20 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He smiled and opened it , surprised to find it in the original Mandarin . |
| 23 | ‘ For stealing household goods and trying to sell them in the surrounding villages . ’ |
| 24 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 25 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |
| 26 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 27 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 28 | So if things are to be done quickly , an approach able to look without let or hindrance at problems , even the most deep-seated , is needed : to define them in the clearest terms : to suggest alternative ways to solutions : finally , to seek resources for those solutions . |
| 29 | However , I will seek to set them in the wider context of the Government 's commitment and programme for the computerisation of general practice . |
| 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 . |