Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She preened her elegant nose , turning her head slightly in order to give them all the benefit of her profile . |
| 2 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 3 | Our cautionary comments and suggestions are offered to ease the transitional processes of attachment and detachment in order to improve them both for the individual and the organisations involved . |
| 4 | He summed up the disseminated structure of his novels ( often in his case a necessary result of serial publication , but also probably a matter of personal preference ) , in the same work , when he compared the chapters of a novel to a convoy of vessels and himself , the inventor , as a man-of-war turning attention now to one ship , now to another , in order to bring them all safely to port . |
| 5 | Vicki is praying that the rescue ship she knows is on its way will arrive in time to save them all . |