Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To help them think in advance about the issues , members undertook pre-work relating to the quality Improvement Process and its state of progress in their domain . |
| 2 | In order for the exception under article 11 to come into operation so as to relieve drivers and those who permit them to drive in excess of the hours which are prescribed there must be a real emergency . |
| 3 | One possible way of getting round the problem of the ‘ doorstep ’ explanation is to write a letter to people in the sample to let them know in advance of the survey and the coming call by an interviewer . |
| 4 | I reassured myself that nothing could stop me keeping in touch with the women on a voluntary basis , provided they wished to remain friends . |
| 5 | I asked in front of the whole class , and you get out Lorna . |
| 6 | Over the volcanic centre of North Island I gazed in wonder on the mighty peaks and craters , remembering some of the Maori tales of love and feuds and jealousy that surround these mountains . |
| 7 | One such trip was during the first week that Mr. Shipsey started his business — the bakery door was open and Dad and I stood and watched the proceedings , I gazed in amazement as the tin loaves were drawn from the oven , trays of currant buns brought out , brushed with sugar water applied by a three inch brush and doughnuts sprinkled with sugar . |
| 8 | I gazed in admiration at the splendid mellow brick Tudor gatehouses of Trinity and St John 's with their painted coats of arms and their octagonal towers ; at the oriel windows , and the fantastically-patterned corkscrew chimneys ; at the playful Gothic-revival fantasy of the Bridge of Sighs . |
| 9 | At night when storms lashed from the North Sea I gazed in awe at the hill where the Hunmanby Dane had built his wooden castle and yearned to enter the past . |
| 10 | I mean in response to the general tone of the argument which was they want us to increase the leadership roles in the , in in local government and in in local communities and local councils we would we thought that |
| 11 | and he , he just goes around thumping , kicking and , and going berserk during drama and the teacher just looks on and says calm down and I mean in view of the fact I 've written to the school and complained about , but you 'd think they would be keeping an eye and he hates drama so much and it , he 's got drama tomorrow , if he has any trouble tomorrow morning I 'm not sending him tomorrow afternoon I 'm gon na start keeping him home and if they ask why I 'm gon na say because you ca n't control your classes and you wo n't want to now |
| 12 | Oh you did , yeah it 's it 's er no but I mean in terms of the actual word you do n't know what it is |
| 13 | No sample questions but I mean in terms of the syllabus that you 've got there is y'know you 're much better off just having an understanding of it . |
| 14 | When I lived in Dublin at the end of the Second World War , one of my friends was an obsessive film buff whose dramatic recall , frame by frame , of scenes such as the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin or the final chase in Fritz Lang 's M often hypnotized even the drunks in the bars we frequented . |
| 15 | I tell you this , Athelstan , ’ sheathing his sword and dagger , ‘ I fought in France against the cream of French chivalry for the Old King , bless him ! |
| 16 | I sit in front of the television and impress my girl-friend by pointing out all the faults of the players ; it is much more comfortable and less dangerous than participation , and my girl-friend thinks I am wonderful . |
| 17 | ‘ There were the customary acclamations from the populace as I rode in procession to the Guildhall this morning — indeed it seemed to me that my subjects had never before greeted me with such enthusiasm , ’ Edward told her , gazing into the fire as if reliving the morning 's events . |
| 18 | That was when I got in contact with the ‘ official ’ underground . ’ |
| 19 | I got in touch with the publishers and told them they would have to find another translator . |
| 20 | I got in touch with the linguists in the University and the College of Education , and was asked if I could do some teaching in March ( March seeming a long way away , I agreed ) . |
| 21 | I got in touch with the Cathedral choir and was invited to sing with them , though they actually had plenty of quite good tenors and were I think doing me a favour rather than the reverse . |
| 22 | I got in touch with the Child Support Agency . |
| 23 | She was clearly mentally disturbed , and the reason that I got in touch with the legal project was to see if there 's anything that could be done by them to start giving her some way of getting in touch , getting to solve her problem . |
| 24 | Some of this structure I hold in common with the structural elements of other people . |
| 25 | I stop in front of the shop and look inside with my forehead sort of pressed against the glass . |
| 26 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 27 | ‘ Once I dealt with every newspaper and broadcasting medium in the country , ’ he says , ‘ now I walk in fear of the Hartlepool Mail , or what The Northern Echo will make of me . ’ |
| 28 | I raced in Ghent against the Canadian Desai Williams and lost over 60 metres , but I beat the American record holder James Butler at 200 metres with 20.55 seconds , the fastest indoor time in the world that year . |
| 29 | What I confirmed in answer to the question to which the hon. Gentleman has referred was that we had put in place measures to deal with the problems arising from repossession . |
| 30 | I allowed in discussion of the mechanisms of acquired distinctiveness that the acquisition of strength by a representation of strength by a representation of X might restrict the strength acquired by A itself during acquisition of the test response . |