Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current medical technology could never make me a man in full fact , but I could have what was available . |
| 2 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 3 | I think the teachers did influence me a lot in their own enthusiasm for the subject ; it seemed to rub off on me , you know ; whenever they taught me something , a new concept or something , I 'd come away feeling enlightened by it , and wanting to know more , just this curiosity for more knowledge . |
| 4 | Mother had given me a room in her cottage , but was very nervous about having a baby in the house after so many years . |
| 5 | He had given me the runaround in his sleep . |
| 6 | Lawrence has insisted he wants to stay and honour his contract at Middlesbrough and make them a force in the Premier division . |
| 7 | Aung San had given them an example in the early stages of the advance when he accorded summary trial to an Indo-Burmese or Muslim-Burmese headman who had assisted the British : Bo Aung San ran him through with a bayonet . |
| 8 | He was pondering how to chat him up without attracting too much attention from Blanche and Eddy , when he heard the superintendent ask the man from the Drugs Squad who exactly had given them the tip-off in the first place . |
| 9 | Keyhole cockpits are now almost universal but high density polyethylene is still unique to Prijon and has given them the edge in plastic white water kayak design . |
| 10 | Victory this afternoon in Parnell Park , Antrim 's home from home , would guarantee them a place in the lucrative knock-out stages , while offering the younger players a chance to display their considerable talents . |
| 11 | Well we promised them a week in Bali , did n't we ? |
| 12 | But in the 1950s , with the first wave of postwar affluence , young people in transition began to have money and the adman found them a place in the consumer society . |
| 13 | Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going . |
| 14 | In the late 1880s , he was able to make major improvements to this pen , and was to be found assembling them every evening in his hotel room . |
| 15 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 16 | It cost them a fortune in both cases . |
| 17 | He sits down and writes me a receipt in the shadow of a sign which says ‘ You do n't have to be crazy here but it helps ’ . |
| 18 | He came here with my grandmother when he was in his early twenties , changed his name from Vassilakas to Vass and found himself a job in the only trade he knew . |
| 19 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 20 | Your colourful container pictures could win you a break in the Lakes , courtesy of the Buxton Mineral Water Company |
| 21 | ‘ Tell me something … did you think praising my Caribbean designs would win you an ally in all these underhand schemes of yours ? |
| 22 | With such thoughtfulness he will probably buy you a pint in the Rock at the end of the day ) . |
| 23 | By August that political movement found itself a paper in the Berkeley Barb . |
| 24 | That long-anticipated non-profit X trade association , the X Industry Association , brainchild of The X Business Group , is getting off the ground : it 's picked itself a chairman in David Harris of Adobe Systems Inc and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic Inc , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of Digital Equipment Corp and Michael Harrigan of Network Computing Devices Inc and Anil Malhotra of IXI Ltd ; members include Applied Digital Data Systems , Grafpoint , Hummingbird , Kinesix , Non Standard Logics , Omron , Shographics , TeleSoft , Visual Edge and Walker , Richer & Quinn ; the new body is to market , promote and educate in the name of X , leaving the X Consortium , while it still exists , to grapple with the technical issues . |
| 25 | Maybe I should buy him a place in the country . |
| 26 | For the law to grant him a defence in these circumstances would be to grant a licence for sexual exploitation . |
| 27 | A good example is a manufacturer who sells to a reseller and requires the reseller to grant him an indemnity in respect of third party claims for product liability made against the manufacturer arising in relation to the products of the manufacturer that are sold on by the reseller . |
| 28 | Offcourse Howard Wilkinson could n't guarantee him a place in the first eleven and Mr Wilkinson told Strandli that if he wants to leave Leeds United that 's fine with him , but he wo n't let him go for ‘ nothing ’ . |
| 29 | The management of Roker FC could n't guarantee him a place in the side . ’ |
| 30 | Victory in the trial , with a score of 7,850 points , would guarantee him a place in Britain 's Olympic team and he feels he 's ready now . |