Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all he persuaded her to work in Bonanza 's joint , and it was n't long before he persuaded her in other directions . |
| 2 | Who better than a renegade aristocrat to revel in man 's proximity to animals — hence all those feline females and canine males . |
| 3 | That night he decided to sleep in Dad 's room . |
| 4 | From their small and humble beginnings in tiny weather-board stations to the great climaxes of the massive Auckland and Wellington stations of the 1930s , New Zealand Railways have consistently adopted thoughtful and sensitive approaches , When railway confidence was beginning to wane elsewhere in the world in the 1930s , New Zealand not only built two of the greatest stations in the southern hemisphere , but under the Labour Government of 1936–49 continued to invest in railway 's . |
| 5 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 6 | He likes to sit in granddad 's chair and pretend that he 's smoking granddad 's pipe . |
| 7 | He too was about to figure in Coffin 's confidential TAS report . |
| 8 | However , the management of class conflict bureaucratically is then incompatible with the demands made on the bureaucracy to intervene in society 's productive activities : ‘ productive activity , contrasted with allocative , is incompatible with a bureaucratic mode or organization ’ . |
| 9 | The importance of trying to keep in nature 's good books is plain as the cattle call and stamp impatiently . |
| 10 | For I have come to rest in Rainbow 's wing-mirror , where I can keep all three players in this drama within my sights . |
| 11 | The perversity of the decision should not detract from the flaws it appeared to expose in sport 's crusade to eradicate drug abuse , nor the manner in which it showed that financial considerations were as responsible for the debacle as the gross ineptitude of the DLV . |
| 12 | They were joined , to a lesser extent , by Nick Adams , later to star in TV 's The Rebel . |