Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] in [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Three things struck me most in comparing the UK market with my experiences before I arrived here from the Equifax Inc in Atlanta .
2 Others mention them only in passing or , like the Alliance Commission 's Report on Electoral Reform , not at all .
3 I was not alone in the way I identified with the saga of the March family , nor was I alone in identifying with Jo ( and presumably all readers do ) in her hurts and disappointments , her longings for femininity that clashed with her dreams of independence and achievement ; and in wishing for the ultimate fairness of all things as they were shaped by those nineteenth century moral certainties .
4 And he did n't forget the man he had beaten , and to whom he acknowledged America owed a debt : ‘ I want all of you to join with me tonight in expressing our gratitude to President Bush for his lifetime of public service , for the effort he made from the time he was a young soldier in the second world war , to helping to bring about an end to the Cold War , to our victory in the Gulf War , to the grace with which he conceded the results of this election tonight in the finest American tradition . ’
5 He said : ‘ I want all of you to join with me tonight in expressing our gratitude to President Bush for his lifetime of service . ’
6 But I hope you will join me tonight in saluting ALL the correspondents and crews — from the BBC , ITN , BSkyB and other broadcasters here and abroad as well as those from newspapers and agencies like Visnews — join me in saluting those who risk their lives in appalling circumstances to tell the world the truth about what was Yugoslavia .
7 We will involve them further in helping employers to help with childcare .
8 The hope is to give students an insight into them reading process and involve them more in thinking about their learning .
9 In general , the former method of organising by themes and keywords involves you more in doing analysis and thinking at the moment of reading , which is generally a good idea .
10 Will he join me also in condemning the inefficiency of Labour councils , whose failure to collect rents and fill empty properties is a major barrier to the provision of homes for the homeless ?
11 She supported me enthusiastically in bringing in new work practices in the interests of efficiency , and in introducing new services and extending others .
12 STEVE DAVIS , a 9–1 third-round winner over Wayne Jones , went one better in thrashing Irishman Eugene Hughes 9–0 to reach the last 16 of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Snooker Championship at Preston last night .
13 But er , if you file everything away in filing cabinets , then er , you can go to the right filing cabinet , open the right drawer , maybe there 's some folders in there .
14 This positions them uniquely in exploiting the multimedia potential of their list .
15 In one shape or size this was said to me often in writing this book , and always by women and girls themselves .
16 Erm I suppose Scarborough Borough Council er having the most acute unemployment problems in the county er is as interested as anybody else in attracting new investment , but er I do wonder whether this particular approach is the right one .
17 And yet I 've been as guilty as anybody else in saying , Oh they wo n't wan na come in this medical practice booklet what will they gain from it ?
18 If the hon. Gentleman really cares about unemployed people , will he join me today in calling on his Front-Bench colleagues to abandon their policy of a national statutory minimum wage , to abandon their jobs tax and to abandon their embrace of the European Community social action programme so that we can avoid the disastrous consequences for employment that would follow from such policies ?
19 Will he join me today in thanking the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi for his recent proposals which form part of the crucial negotiations that are taking place ?
20 It did not take long for the Japanese to recognise the value of railways , and their natural imitativeness served them well in grasping the salient features of railway work .
21 As an adult , this woman came to understand that the fairy tale had helped her greatly in throwing off her dependence on her brother , as it had convinced her that an early dependence on him need not interfere with her later ascendancy .
22 Fans perhaps remember him best in Carry On Doctor as the hapless Dr Kilmore , who is found in compromising positions with nurses .
23 His memory plays him false in averring that I ‘ chose the post of Home Secretary ’ .
24 She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model .
25 As she will be maintaining all her twenty-six goals on a permanent basis , the low sugar intake should help her considerably in getting down to her final goal weight for the end of the year .
26 a good eye there 's nothing hard in hitting the ball .
27 But I mean i is n't he right in saying look this is , this is the erm figures he uses are seventy percent of the population that , that they are , if you like , our friends an and if you 're gon na have a revolution successfully you 've got ta make , distinguish between your friends and your enemies and the poor peasants are your real friends .
28 While the Anglo-American partnership was vital but unequal in maintaining the First and Second Pillars of grand strategy , Britain was expected to go it alone in supporting the Third Pillar , which was an essentially British requirement that had little to do with the Americans or the North Atlantic Alliance .
29 But the believer must wait for God 's time of deliverance ; he may think it long in coming — forgetting that God 's time is the best time . ’
30 In this , his value always exceeds Boswell 's ; Johnson the writer has no need to grind the axe of his ego , and thereby feels no qualms in conveying how confusing he finds the native Scots , who , decisive and firm in their answer to his first question , are likely to contradict it entirely in answering the second question .
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