Example sentences of "in [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say . |
| 32 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 33 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 34 | For the latter , the self-interest lies in being fully and finally in charge of one 's working life , in recovering it as part of a life of one 's own . |
| 35 | It 's very , very hard in encouraging them to … |
| 36 | So far as the old , mutually dependent carers are concerned , this work is valuable in reminding us of the substantial numbers of men who perform these functions for their wives . |
| 37 | Mr Wesley had kindly words to say about the people of the little town and neighbourhood and there is no harm in reminding ourselves of what he thought about or predecessors : ‘ They have in general the finest natural tempers I ever knew ; they have the softness and courtesy of the Irish , with the seriousness of the Scotch and the openness of the English . ’ |
| 38 | Their problems are not likely to be solved unless this aspect of them is dealt with and some skill may be necessary in drawing it into the light . |
| 39 | Some fat women do not define themselves sexually because they do not consider themselves sexually viable , and see no point in labelling themselves in a vacuum . |
| 40 | Cuckoo nestlings do n't live inside robins or reed-warblers ; they do n't suck their blood or devour their tissues , yet we have no hesitation in labelling them as parasites . |
| 41 | As explained above , some students may be perfectly well able to discriminate between tones , but have difficulty in labelling them as ‘ fall ’ , ‘ rise ’ , etc . |
| 42 | The lesson of that election was that only an alliance of all those who stood to the right of the Socialists could succeed in easing them from power . |
| 43 | We regard the left critique of pluralism as cogent , but it goes over the top in seeing everything about pluralism as completely wrong since it is the case that an open competitive model of interest-group politics does fit the facts on certain issues . |
| 44 | In summary , his presentation allows readers to suppose that the Pioneers were wrong in establishing , or attempting to establish , the producers ' societies as bodies separate from the consumers ' societies , and wrong even in seeing them as genuine co-operatives . |
| 45 | ‘ Berenice will come first , but we 'll come again and I shall take pleasure in seeing it through your eyes . ’ |
| 46 | They concur with the group in seeing it as a way of cutting down on bootleg tapes , though it will still reduce the impact of a future live album . |
| 47 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 48 | But it is not every image that succeeds in suggesting something of the thrill of the hunt as well as curiosity . |
| 49 | I had considerable difficulty in dissuading him from this course and only did so when I was able to convince him that , far from assisting Aitken , it would damage his cause . |
| 50 | In allowing yourself to be led now by the same illogical but kind motive , you are not being as silly as you think . |
| 51 | My brother and I shared a room for a while but we soon had a partition put in allowing us to each have our separate rooms . |
| 52 | The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena , where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other 's throats ; Virgin 's tribulations showed the difficulties in allowing it to be governed by free market principles . |
| 53 | The teacher who finds , for instance , that a child has difficulty in including himself in a ‘ family count up ’ , may make sure that he has opportunity for counting the members of many different groups of which he is a part , on other occasions . |
| 54 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 55 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 56 | Convinced that in keeping him with her , she was merely indulging her maternal regard for him , Richard was playing his last card . |
| 57 | It 's quite a nice little town , everybody knows everybody , and they do n't like to feel that they 're going to be outside of the sort of social circle that they move in , so it does have that effect in keeping them under control . |
| 58 | Wooing first John and then Richard , Philip succeeded in keeping them at each other 's throats , or at Henry 's coat-tails , for several more years . |
| 59 | Or do you not see any point in keeping them at all ? is the number to dial . |
| 60 | And it 's the same idea in Confirmation that the gifts which you are given are not given just for yourself , they 're given to be used , and there 's no point in keeping them to yourself , you know . |