Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I interest you in an aerial photograph of your house ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 3 | If I 'm allowed to have food , why ca n't I have it in the same cell as Elaine ? ’ |
| 4 | Could I put them in the soft box ? |
| 5 | Eva could be snobby , that was obvious , but if I saw something , or heard a piece of music , or visited a place , I would n't be content until Eva had made me see it in a certain way . |
| 6 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 7 | Why ca n't you do it in the front room then ? |
| 8 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 9 | Will you remember me in a million years ? |
| 10 | ‘ Will you join me in a pre-luncheon sherry ? ’ |
| 11 | Now can you tell me in a wee bit more detail how you did that ? |
| 12 | Or would you tell them in no uncertain terms to leave immediately ? |
| 13 | He walked past a few minutes ago and said that 's the third letter you 've written today why do n't you put them in the same envelope and save postage ? |
| 14 | Is it worth doing and if so , can you point me in the right direction . |
| 15 | ‘ And , if you thought I might be , why did you hire me in the first place ? ’ |
| 16 | And why do we do it in the cruellest possible ways ? |
| 17 | Pagan Greek literature does not have the phrase at all , and only twice do we find it in the Old Testament . |
| 18 | Do they affect you in the same way ? |
| 19 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 20 | As she went upstairs she saw him toss something in a little glass down his throat in one gulp and she saw the swollen nicotine-stained fingers and the watery bad-tempered eyes . |
| 21 | Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ? |
| 22 | Do they hold it in an unusual position-to the side rather than full-square to the eyes ? |
| 23 | I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’ |
| 24 | Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place . |
| 25 | And did n't he desert her in the same heartless way ? |
| 26 | A friend of mine , should he find himself in a gay sex shop . |