Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The role of the museum is to present the collection in a fresh way , both showing unfamiliar paintings and hanging them in natural light ’ . |
| 2 | Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense . |
| 3 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 4 | The Parish Council have asked me to get an estimate from you for replacing the seat in its original position and concreting it in place . |
| 5 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 7 | Iago not only knows no altruism in himself , he blocks and destroys it in others : |
| 8 | The suggestion was made that there should be community discussions with LEDU , that West Belfast people , in the absence of ideas from the IDB , are going to have to come up with their own ideas and develop them in conjunction with the universities , industrialists , and so on . |
| 9 | According to Antony the Devil came to tempt and torture him in a variety of fantastical forms from lascivious women to wild beasts . |
| 10 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 11 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 12 | The prosecution claims that Westmore James got into a row with the cousin , and stabbed him in the neck on the steps of a social security office . |
| 13 | She found the rabbit , chewing on a stubby cactus , and stabbed it in the neck . |
| 14 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 15 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 16 | Tearing down the temple and re-building it in three days . |
| 17 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 18 | Loretta followed her into a spacious drawing-room , and seated herself in a chair to one side of the tiled fireplace , while Veronica took the chair opposite . |
| 19 | And she brought forth her first-born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger ; because there was no room for them in the inn . |
| 20 | And she brought forth her first born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger. because there was no room for them in the inn . |
| 21 | " And she brought forth her first-born child , and laid him in a manger , because there was no place for them in the inn . " |
| 22 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 23 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 24 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 25 | Martha took out the two tiles and laid them in front of him . |
| 26 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 27 | Alexandra read the paragraphs through carefully several times , then cut them out and laid them in her desk with his two letters . |
| 28 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 29 | I snatched up my doll , Topsey , and laid her in the cart and ran after Mum who was half way down the street before I caught her up . |
| 30 | I picked up a likely length and laid it in the boat . |