Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You take men from their homes or their chosen occupations , you confine them in insalubrious conditions upon a wholly inadequate diet , you subject them to the tyranny of bosun 's mates , you expose them to unimagined perils ; what is more , you defraud them of their meagre food , pay and allowances — everything but this sacred rum of yours . |
| 2 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 3 | Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and |
| 4 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 5 | Others lay them in the stems , in the roots or in buds . |
| 6 | Bring them in one at a time and show them a series of articles such as a pot , a plate , a flask and a small stool . |
| 7 | Not er like they bring them in these cardboard boxes you know , wooden boxes . |
| 8 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 9 | Do they wish to have us back them in their expansion of their resorts in France ? |
| 10 | And wrapt me in a gown . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're gon na gang bang them in the drive-ins , Harry . |
| 12 | Once a bank purchases such bills it can hold the bills to maturity or sell them in a secondary market to any other bank(s) . |
| 13 | First of all , he could borrow dollars from the Fritz Bank and sell them in the spot market for DMs . |
| 14 | The idea took off and now Dunkin' Donuts , who sell them in an amazing 31 flavours , say ‘ holes ’ are one of their most popular lines . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to make shoes and sell them in large quantities and yet I would like them to be different , individual , and to achieve that , I require a designer . ’ |
| 16 | At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market . |
| 17 | In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share . |
| 18 | And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert . |
| 19 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 20 | Erm but I 'm hoping they 'll put them on a , on the table when we sell them in here and there 's that 's the first thing that 'll hit them is the turned legs you see ? |
| 21 | They surely sell them in Dublin though do they ? |
| 22 | " We 're going to carry the yew berries home in our mouths and eat them in the great burrow . |
| 23 | The birds could pose a serious health risk for people who eat them in north Africa and southern Europe . |
| 24 | eat them in park one day |
| 25 | What about a chess-playing machine , programmed to examine the board and then ‘ imagine ’ thousands of possible moves and evaluate them in relation to each other ? |
| 26 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 27 | I see , you criticize my appearance , and then you stab me in the back ! |
| 28 | MAKE everyone in the house agree to breakfast at the same time so you ( a ) get a clear kitchen , and ( b ) know you can get some help . |
| 29 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 30 | Number them in sequence 1 , 2 , 3 etc , left to right on each line . |