Example sentences of "[verb] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But irrespective of how they construe the common sense which is the policeman or woman 's working knowledge , seniors are agreed that new recruits need experience of life to enable them to deal with the range of situations and people they encounter in their work . |
| 2 | For all our participants , and undoubtedly for many of this age-group , a central issue that is constantly recurring in their interpretation of the day-to-day practices they encounter in their social lives is the extent to which they are recognized as persons of independent dignity and standing . |
| 3 | The mnemonic RAM reminds you of repetition , association and mnemonics , and these three techniques can be used in combination or separately to retain in your memory the facts , ideas or opinions that you encounter in your studies . |
| 4 | All this marking and writing and reference back and forth between different textbooks and notes is the correct way to deal with impersonal communication of the kind that you encounter in your studies . |
| 5 | His abuse beat in her face like rain so heavy that it forced shut her eyes . |
| 6 | He had walked along this track with Sandy , arm in arm , and as the wind beat in his face he recalled the weather had been similar . |
| 7 | You could see the pulse beat in his neck . |
| 8 | The two Highlanders grinned as if they understood every word , Carey smirked whilst Scawsby gave that neighing laugh which made the blood beat in my temples . |
| 9 | But at night when they get sleepy they always go to their mother and sleep in her embrace . |
| 10 | All she wanted was to get this whole thing over with , so she could go home to Kentish Town and sleep in her own bed . |
| 11 | ‘ Yet , at that age they are still nursed , still sleep in their mother 's arms , are still three years away from puberty , and about four years from when they will conceive their first offspring . ’ |
| 12 | Noreen felt much the same so it was with great relief that for the New York engagement they could at least travel in from Queen 's each day and sleep in their own beds at night . |
| 13 | They sleep in their socks and their trousers and their tunics , and still the cold bites them . |
| 14 | Older children also sleep in their parents ' room , a pattern which continued in the middle class Bangladeshi families in this sample and those in which the parents had grown up in Britain . |
| 15 | I eat their food , I sleep in their bed , I shag their daughter now and again . ’ |
| 16 | I often sleep in my coat , ’ he backed away from her , all the way towards the door ; then on the landing , and for no reason that he could give to himself , he turned and ran not towards his bedroom but across the landing , over the gallery , down the stairs , through the hall to the front door . |
| 17 | Softly he added , ‘ Come and sleep in my arms . ’ |
| 18 | He says , I 've been about , he said I see you still sleep in your bed , but you 're not putting them bloody pistachios ! |
| 19 | A murmur lifted in her throat like the sound of the wind blowing . |
| 20 | Jed 's heart lifted in his ribs . |
| 21 | Given that these ‘ older ’ users are more likely to have worked and to inject heroin , rather than smoke it , the sample is skewed away from the archetypal ‘ young unemployed heroin chaser ’ profiled in our prevalence surveys . |
| 22 | The recent publication of all known speeches and writings of Hitler between 1919 and 1924 provides for the first time an opportunity to observe the self-image profiled in his public statements . |
| 23 | The words seemed to catch in her throat . |
| 24 | He had never caused her breath to catch in her throat or her mouth to dry with a mixture of hope and dread that he might reach for her . |
| 25 | The menu along the top of the screen is , of course , a pop-down , mouse-driven affair , but the shades of the DOS version still linger in its layout . |
| 26 | Anyway , it has a spacious and homely feeling about it left over from the bad days of British Imperialism , and this is epitomised in my bathroom , which has an enormous ( though now cracked ) Shanks sink , made in Scotland ! |
| 27 | But there was no need to worry in his case . |
| 28 | Chairs decorously ranged in their places , the white cloth gone . |
| 29 | They involve in their essence the consideration of the future of the nation state . |
| 30 | so he sits there erm , and you know you involve in our conversation , but he sits there talking to her and then he sort of feels out of it and then he storms off |