Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A JEALOUS husband stabbed his wife and her toyboy lover to death after spying on them through a chink in the curtains . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you think your mother would let you go out with me for a day in Newcastle ? ’ |
| 3 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 4 | Eventually I protested so Father Prior took me for a walk in the meadows and said I was to prove my worth with one final task . ’ |
| 5 | She had told him lies about where Bella 's money was hidden , pretended to be fascinated when he had lied to her about spending the day with his father : ‘ We played golf together , then he took me for a ride in the new car . |
| 6 | She stares at me for a moment in her shocked haze of light . |
| 7 | I was reminded of a similar mechanism at Evan Roberts department store which fascinated me as a boy in Cardiff during the early Fifties . |
| 8 | ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’ |
| 9 | There was nothing about a delivery in his early morning instructions . |
| 10 | A final upthrust of the North York Moors , they were virtually unspoilt when I roamed them as a boy in the 1950s . |
| 11 | In this extract the senior devil instructs his nephew to use them as a tactic in subverting the progress of the new believer : |
| 12 | Instead , the theory has to relate types of state to distinct socio-economic structures , without placing them as a whole in any historical sequence , and to explain changes in the state by characteristics of the structure of each particular form of society which engender a structural transformation . |
| 13 | I should have sent the drinks back , but instead looked upon them as a windfall in our rather straitened circumstances . |
| 14 | In 1853 his whole collected works were published for the first time with an introduction in which the editor , George Offor , hailed them as a weapon in the struggle against ‘ the mighty efforts ’ which were then being made ‘ to enthral the country in the Satanic yoke of popery or its dark ill-shapen brother Puseyism ’ . |
| 15 | David and Ruth Archer are shown below , and you can meet members of the cast at many of this summer 's agricultural shows , or join them for a weekend in Bromsgrove . |
| 16 | All the perennials are bought in containers and I grow them for a year in their pots to see how they cope with the conditions , then I plant them out in the garden . " |
| 17 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 18 | Her father had left them for a woman in France . |
| 19 | ‘ I took them for a ride in a van and a walk through Epping Forest . ’ |
| 20 | Members of the nursing profession , who once assumed that training for registration would equip them for a career in nursing now realise that this is no longer the case . |
| 21 | More recently ( and more light-heartedly ) it was pointed out to me after a lecture in England , that my ideas on the stratigraphical column were essentially Marxist in ideology . |
| 22 | You know I saw nothing of the sort when I for a fortnight in a . |
| 23 | pointed up the risk that the panel may have to respond to shareholders demands to make the company spend money on more external work : ‘ While most shareholders will act responsibly , anybody who has attended an AGM knows there will always be someone with a bee in his or her bonnet . ’ |
| 24 | The post would be appropriate for someone with a background in the private or public sectors . |
| 25 | Gail , who is also looking forward to the birth of her first baby in November , said : ‘ We have just come back from two wet weeks in Bournemouth and said we could do with spoiling ourselves with a stay in a luxury hotel then I was told I had won — it 's amazing. , ’ |
| 26 | She was already beside the door , and pivoted like someone in a dream in response to his call . |
| 27 | One early significant occasion for me was actually meeting someone in a bookshop in the Finchley Road when I was about sixteen . |
| 28 | In my experience , clients will not give up their contacts amongst the trade media and they feel at their most confident when talking to someone from a publication in their own trade or profession . |
| 29 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 30 | They would look for food by sending someone to a relative in a nearby village with a farm , usually entailing a trek of several days through deep snow . |