Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] in [pron] " in BNC.

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1 One day soon , Dr Kepepwe would do the trick — with luck before the war-damaged moved in to supplant me in her attentions .
2 ‘ Then let me tell you that you have no right to include me in your sordid games .
3 Almost to a man they were against the new phenomenon of the movies and they made no effort to include them in their ‘ night-time ’ world .
4 The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group .
5 It is said that Adolf Sax tried to persuade Wagner to include them in his orchestral apparatus but Wagner perceived that they would not blend well with either woodwind or brass ( still less , strings ) and never used them .
6 This is not , in fact , the best time of year to see them in their full glory , but you will appreciate , sir , that with the arrival of spring , we will see a change — a very special sort of change — in these surroundings . ’
7 ‘ I have loved elephants since I was a child and it will be fantastic to see them in their natural environment . ’
8 You do n't see luxurious leather-bound books in most homes , which is all the more reason you 'll be proud to see them in yours !
9 Look at them closely before closing your eyes and trying to see them in your mind .
10 It was against this background that Peter Thompson , the chief executive of NFC , together with his chairman , Bobby Lawrence , came to see me in my small office on the Cabinet floor of the House of Commons on 18 May 1981 .
11 When our daughter Rebecca was three she came to see me in my office one day and said , ‘ Daddy , you 're the leader of the church , and you know everything . ’
12 Anyway , I got through to the finals , that was really nerve-racking , and my mum and my boyfriend came along to see me in it .
13 I was sitting in my office smoking one of James 's cigarettes — not the best thing , perhaps , for the queasiness I was still feeling , but I hoped it might calm my juddering nerves — when a poked page-boy knocked on my door and said the Old Man wanted to see me in his suite .
14 He came to see me in our hotel the night before we came to this country , and …
15 Bring them in one at a time and show them a series of articles such as a pot , a plate , a flask and a small stool .
16 they can erm it can affect them in their later life and they hit out at people to show their affection .
17 We will be working alongside the base staff , encouraging them and assisting them in their work with local churches , ministering to the homeless in Hyderabad and working among a gypsy group in the country .
18 He gave them some thought , then extracted two and stowed them in his hip pocket .
19 If it manages to kill me in my sleep one night , you 'll be as badly off as you were before . ’
20 ‘ Oh , you do n't want me in it , ’ protested Rosie .
21 Do they wish to have us back them in their expansion of their resorts in France ?
22 She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English .
23 She drives me in my car and we do not say much .
24 Mr Jackson drives me in his car sometimes for a special treat .
25 Each morning at seven the members of the Brotherhood presented themselves at the dock-gates , and Josh called out their numbers , allowing them in one at a time to report for work .
26 Alexandra read the paragraphs through carefully several times , then cut them out and laid them in her desk with his two letters .
27 I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English .
28 They had come to see the show and my guilt for neglecting them afterwards was eased by Pam and Kath , also at the show this evening , who entertained them in my absence .
29 And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert .
30 I did n't want them in my house or my life , but I did want to know what they were up to , and no-one would tell me .
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