Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [noun] in [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Send your problems in confidence to Ask Annie , Options , Belfast Telegraph , 124 Royal Avenue , Belfast BT1 1EB . |
| 2 | Many people who call for benefit increases in a discussion on whether or not to operate a minimum wage , mysteriously lose their voice in debates to enhance welfare payments ( Sam Brittan and Joe Rogaly , both from the Financial Times stable , are honourable exceptions to this rule ) . |
| 3 | Parents will shout , hit , nag , and lose their tempers in order to gain control of their children but find that nothing works . |
| 4 | Since their political independence most LDCs have tried to develop local manufacturing industries and diversify their exports in order to achieve some degree of economic independence from former colonial powers . |
| 5 | Here , Chris Bonington looks at the way climbers develop their skills in order to test the above criteria , and sketches in the larger-than-life personalities and rivalries within the sport . |
| 6 | put my meat in freezer let get it for week |
| 7 | I used clay — I put my palm in clay to get the natural contours of my hand . |
| 8 | With partner Griff Rhys Jones , 38 , he sends up the squeegee pirates from hell — the fast operators who jump out armed with a bucket and sponge and cover your screen in soap suds while you 're stuck at traffic lights . |
| 9 | If I meet a new act , I always try and assess their maturity in order to judge whether they might go off the deep end as soon as they have success . |
| 10 | The exhibition left me with a feeling that the artist was both the hunter an the hunted , laying open her background in order to investigate , to analyse . |
| 11 | Enjoy your holiday in style driving around in your own car . |
| 12 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 13 | Ideological preferences are similarly of little use , since they may simply be the way in which politicians present their views in order to gain public acceptance . |
| 14 | Wrap your plants in newspaper to protect them from draughts and to stop leaves bruising . |
| 15 | As a contemporary remarked of one of Price 's memoranda , ‘ Price his notes in substance seek to make his office commodious . ’ |
| 16 | He claimed that the referendum was a key element in a conspiracy by Serbs both inside and outside Croatia to destabilize the republic and overthrow his administration in order to create a centralized , Serb-dominated Yugoslavia , or else a " Greater Serbia " . |
| 17 | We adapt and suppress our needs in order to behave in a civilised fashion . |
| 18 | It was a dispiriting affair , and since the material was being auctioned on behalf of the gallery 's creditors , there were no reserves and auctioneer Ian Mackenzie was forced to lower as well as raise his bids in order to find buyers for each of 144 lots which raised £97,070 ( $166,300 ) . |
| 19 | Understandably , perhaps : women who deceive their husbands in order to attend political meetings are probably rare , even when they hold , as Richard and I did , different opinions from each other . |
| 20 | This position would be retained and they proceeded each to rest his chin on the other 's shoulder — heads nuzzled close together like horses lodged in affection — and then swing their arms in order to take a grip on the flattened back of their opponent . |
| 21 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 22 | Poor Sir Isaac Newton , the father of modern science ; if he only knew , he would surely return to Earth and rewrite his books in Sanskrit to ensure a full understanding of their content . |
| 23 | Arrange your information in pencil to allow for amendments . |
| 24 | You no longer take your vitamins in pill form these days — the latest trend is to rub them into your skin . |
| 25 | Rates have their origin in attempts to share responsibility fairly among local residents for services provided in common . |
| 26 | Academics have their livings in institutions established to conduct academic activities . |
| 27 | Somehow they must be found , have their interest in nursing maintained and be given opportunities to return to work under conditions which suit their circumstances . |
| 28 | Will it achieve any purposes that justify its cost in countries destroyed , the dead and the maimed , misery for some millions of Third World migrant workers now without jobs and bankruptcy for their countries , plus the erosion of the standards of humanity in Britain and the United States ? |
| 29 | Despite Mrs Thatcher 's rhetoric , bribing people by way of tax allowances is the paternalistic state writ large ; taxpayers pick up considerable tax benefits on the condition that they spend their money in ways approved by the Government . |
| 30 | ‘ We need our government in Scotland to reproduce the help for industry that occurs in most of our competitor countries . |