Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [pers pn] and [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was up to his neck in it and we used rescue lines to haul him out . |
| 2 | ‘ He was up to his neck in it and we used rescue lines to haul him out . |
| 3 | it 's got a green card in it and it 's got enough stuff to last you until |
| 4 | So he took me to a butcher shoppe with a bacon slicer in it and you know it turned out that he was right aftr all . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe I have two more years of top-class rugby in me and I want them to include a return to the England team . ’ |
| 6 | and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other . |
| 7 | The doctor said something about a tube in her to stop the , to stop what was it now , the doctor said there 's a tube , they put a tube in her and they do n't |
| 8 | it it sort of keeps a sort of continuity in it and I mean I do think when we get to the end of the probationary year you 've sort of really learnt all the areas . |
| 9 | The sun had quite a lot of warmth in it and he set off , behind the back of the Manor and along the bank of the river , to the field where he was to work . |
| 10 | ‘ The manager has shown faith in me and I hope to earn a permanent contract . ’ |
| 11 | It was only the second time she had taken part and this race , taking less than ten minutes , had been a particularly fast one , but as she said , it was a family tradition to take part in it and she had really enjoyed it . |
| 12 | It stirred something deep and primitive in her and she closed her eyes in bliss as the last garment dropped to the floor . |
| 13 | There 's no money in them and it takes the right machinery to cut them up . |
| 14 | Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper . |
| 15 | It was my first flight in her and she performed beautifully , bless her . |
| 16 | No , she said she gets arthritis in hers and I expect that 's what it is with mine . |
| 17 | I gave her another bottle of Arg Nit LM1 with less alcohol in it and she had an excellent response for 10 days , then the pains returned so she stopped the remedy and she was well for two weeks . |
| 18 | Sally felt good in it — the fur was gorgeously soft when she buried her chin in it and she thought that at least she could hold her own in the midst of all this elegance . |
| 19 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 20 | Er , he may be concerned but my Lord erm , there has been reference to the er the professional negligence and and my Lord there is a bit I have in court , I 'm afraid the second edition because the third edition which is the latest , was not available to me this morning , but there 's a paragraph in it and I want to refer your Lordship to it , I wonder if I might read it and er hand it up to your Lordship . |
| 21 | ‘ They go to put the needle in him and he leaps forward at him . |
| 22 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , there 's a bit of almond paste in it and she likes that . |
| 24 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 25 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 26 | Her lips had no magic in them and he felt nothing but pity for her . |
| 27 | We used to have a pick , er er that was a blade that had a slot in it and you had a pick shaft with a box and er a an iron box on the top . |
| 28 | its all just grey , loads of grey in it and it did n't look streaked , it did look natural . |
| 29 | From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 30 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |