Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother generally runs after him and eventually gets him to sit in front of the TV with a snack in his hand . |
| 2 | Apathy occurs as a result of our suppressing negative emotions and feelings , not being able or prepared to deal with them and so letting them accumulate in our unconscious mind . |
| 3 | I did not see the value in teaching him the English equivalents of these words , and merely reminded him to talk in English . |
| 4 | There is also a far greater chance of tackling the issues the schools feels are important and not having them lost in the large number of demands from outside . |
| 5 | If you kick a child all his schooldays , force him to labour sixteen hours a day seven days a week , yank out his teeth with forceps when they ache , bleed him when he is ill , beat him throughout his apprenticeship , starve him when he falls on bad times , and finally let him die in the workhouse when he ages prematurely , then you have educated a man , in the best way possible , to be indifferent . |
| 6 | But he stresses that the progress in contemplative experience , reformation in feeling developing from reformation in faith , is part of an organic process of growth to a peace and fulfilment the longing for which is innate in man who may mistakenly and unnaturally think it resides in material circumstances : Scale 2 is pervaded by a sense of the reality of a dimension to human experience beyond the confines of time and sin , though it is only accessed through them . |
| 7 | He had it named St George 's Church and also had it built in the centre of the village in impeccable Norman style with nave , transepts , chancel , altar , choir stalls , altar rails and tower . |
| 8 | Taking part in moots will help you in these respects , and also give you experience in the art of persuasion , and of putting a case succinctly and intelligibly . |
| 9 | I find that autumn-sown oats or rye ripen early and often allow me to squeeze in a catch crop of oats or rye after the main harvest to be grazed in the late autumn and spring before ploughing for roots . |
| 10 | Take in breath quickly through the mouth and then let it escape in an even hiss . |
| 11 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 12 | She remembered wandering around a boyfriend 's house talking to herself , and then discovering him sitting in the lounge . |
| 13 | They made him dig a grave in the rocky ground at 1.00 am and then forced him to lie in it while they shovelled earth over him . |
| 14 | On the morning of his operation a nurse helped Mr Reynolds to put on an operation gown after his bath and then encouraged him to rest in his freshly made up bed . |
| 15 | I assumed it was coincidence , seeing him in Wexford , and then finding him staying in the same hotel . |
| 16 | NIGEL MANSELL confirmed last night that he is aware of moves to buy him out of his Indy Car racing contract and sensationally persuade him to stay in Formula One next year . |
| 17 | What , then , is the mode of existence of these general ‘ universals ’ , such as ‘ man ’ or ‘ triangle ’ ; and how do they figure in our knowledge and thought ? |
| 18 | But the attitudes and relationships which haunt the present — what are they and how did they dominate in the past ? |
| 19 | The views of his French contemporary , the Carmelite , Jean de Venette , corresponded almost exactly ; not without reason did the poor people of France have little trust in the nobility who abused them and their property and virtually held them to ransom in the most disgraceful way . |
| 20 | And why does he sit in her house waiting for her ? |
| 21 | And why do they sing in the way they do ? |
| 22 | And why do I talk in this way ? |
| 23 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 24 | This darkness and this cloud is betwixt thee and thy God , and telleth thee that thou mayest neither see him clearly by light of understanding , nor feel him in sweetness of love in thine affection , and therefore shape thee to bide in this darkness as long as thou mayest , crying after him that thou lovest … |
| 25 | Well yes , I have that , I would perhaps miss that , so largely and happily does it figure in my dreams . |
| 26 | It is then a relatively simply matter to pretend to put the coin in the right hand but secretly retain it to put in the collar . |
| 27 | Casey brings a double-handed chop down on the back of my neck , just off target but enough to send me reeling in a flood of numb red nausea . |
| 28 | As a student I supplemented my grant by joining the Officer Training Corps , which not only brought me many good friends but also allowed me to participate in various outdoor activities such as abseiling , pot-holing , parachuting and canoeing . |
| 29 | But how had it got in here ? |
| 30 | But how had he got in ? |