Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have sweet soap here and hot water , and either you wash yourself , all over , or I call in the women to hold you down and scrub you myself . |
| 2 | You only got one shot — this was live television — and I stood in the wings , rigid with fear , listening to my heart booming . |
| 3 | I do n't believe John , that that was the intent of the resolution , I 'm certain of that , that is the effect and I think in the interests of everybody , I 'd ask you on behalf of the C E C to withdraw that motion . |
| 4 | Stay here and you follow in the footsteps of Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill . |
| 5 | In Toronto on that homeward trip I first met Ernest L. Bushnell who had come into radio as one-quarter of a male quartet and who rose in the ranks of Canadian radio until he became the top executive of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation some years later . |
| 6 | We have lost our sense of holiness and we shift in the shadows ; little wonder we fail to understand the significance of atonement ! |
| 7 | The first two hours were devoted to special requests and dedications , and we rang in the names of scores of prominent people , organizations , clubs , lodges and service groups throughout the community , with special emphasis on our many listeners in Fort San and other hospitals . |
| 8 | ‘ Our club accountant discovered the shortages and we called in the police . ’ |
| 9 | Some women went to work in insurance offices , again probably as clerks , a few found themselves in railway offices , and one worked in the offices of the Scotsman . |
| 10 | There are two reasons for this diversity : microphones have differing pick-up characteristics depending on their intended use ; and they differ in the ways in which they convert sound into electrical signals . |
| 11 | And they met in the woods where Robert was murdered . |
| 12 | After a further period four queens and then four aces came along and they got in the beds too . |
| 13 | Once or twice he thought he heard footsteps approaching in the distance and they hid in the shadows until deciding it was safe to continue . |
| 14 | He was regularly attending to the pumps on Sundays for which he was paid 1/ the " stem " , or day , and he assisted in the workings by wheelbarrowing and other miscellaneous jobs . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I will , ’ said Linda , ‘ you bump cups of tea up an' down , and it goes in the saucers . |
| 16 | It was based on ‘ family wages ’ and female employment was uncommon , and it flourished in the years leading up to 1914 . |
| 17 | No but I mean in the ones that they have , yes . |
| 18 | But I wake in the nights howling , naked , |
| 19 | ‘ Ah , but he did in the annuals I got for Christmas . |