Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it was nice to sit and eat my lunch in peace , with no-one to interrupt me but it is not nice every morning to ‘ bye ’ and leave him in someone else 's care . |
| 2 | I must have at least a dozen dresses made before I can shew my face in town . |
| 3 | Moreover , I always think that working with you will lessen my spell in Purgatory when I die . ’ |
| 4 | As an American I can only hang my head in shame over the Bill Clinton sex scandal . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe the team will win its place in Division Two . ’ |
| 6 | I have heard people describe their involvement in AIDS support groups in the same terms as people used to describe their involvement in the Gay Liberation Movement . |
| 7 | Before we can describe their views in detail , we need to take a closer look at the role of money in the economy . |
| 8 | In the end the ECSC was still trying to integrate only one part of complex industrial economies , and could not possibly pursue its aims in isolation from other economic segments . |
| 9 | The young in West Belfast know their rights in relation to the RUC and British army , but they do not know their rights in relation to jobs . |
| 10 | They feared that if they refused to marry or baptize their children in church , they would be ostracized in a particularly religiously minded part of Russia . |
| 11 | There is no claim that this resolves the differences , but it helps top managers understand where they might focus their efforts in order to improve effectiveness — i.e. it identifies inconsistent schemas . |
| 12 | ANY day now , the Turkish government will pit its strength in court against New York 's mighty Metropolitan Museum of Art . |
| 13 | These would include its use in emergency airway management in the field and in cervical spine injury as the neck may be maintained in the neutral position during insertion and laryngoscopy is not needed . |
| 14 | Now Victim Support needs individuals and businesses to help fund their work in north Oxfordshire . |
| 15 | We are now being told by this arrogant and incompetent lot that having given us record unemployment , bankruptcies , house repossession , liquidations , factory closures etc , that they are the only ones fit to govern when surely that record should make them hang their heads in shame . |
| 16 | Linda Dirir , a parent and governor at Penketh High School , near Warrington , says Warrington Borough Transport should hang its head in shame . |
| 17 | Any one of which could win you £50,000 in cash . |
| 18 | Any one of which could win you £50,000 in cash . |
| 19 | His home is in Halo Avenue , Johnston , from where he will pursue his interest in horse racing as an acknowledged enthusiast of the sport . |
| 20 | The officer/warden should then describe his signal in detail . |
| 21 | A discourse analyst may regularly work with extended extracts of conversational speech , for example , but he does not consider his data in isolation from the descriptions and insights provided by sentence-grammarians . |
| 22 | He was in the House at the time , so he should hang his head in shame . |
| 23 | Should not the Chancellor hang his head in shame and resign now , and let the Labour party get on with bringing this country back to the richness that it deserves ? |
| 24 | Ooh , do you know what Jan in work she 's she had a phone call she goes oh right yeah , yeah ! |
| 25 | ‘ The family , our school of life , is the Church in miniature , ’ she stated , and went on to tell us that we must recognise our unity in diversity and cherish our differences . |
| 26 | For your convenience please let us know your requirements in advance . |
| 27 | The Personnel Department will need your resignation in writing . ’ |
| 28 | You can also insure your payments in case you 're unable to work due to sickness , accident or redundancy . |
| 29 | I find it very difficult when you have a journalist round , and you will perhaps cooperate as much as you can with an interview , and then sometimes they 'll go and dip their pen in acid and write really horrid things . |
| 30 | Players in the virtually invincible Yale side around the turn of the century would dip their shirts in blood from an abattoir before a match . |