Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can always take Ma forget about Max in his place . |
| 2 | I knew that such contradictions could be resolved for Jean-Claude in his work , and I felt that he , like me , should not allow them to dominate life . |
| 3 | Mary and Sarah 's comparative affluence was by no means typical of conditions in Frome in the 1820s and 1830s , however , William Cobbett , visiting the town in 1826 , the year John Titford 's wife Ann died , talked with a perverse kind of delight about the ‘ irretrievable decay of the place ’ ; four years later it was the turn of a Bridgwater grocer , Thomas Clark , to write of Frome in his journal in the following terms : |
| 4 | Their huge brood lives with Mia in her big , rambling apartment , littered with toys and overflowing with friends . |
| 5 | Denmark , the country that likes to say no , ruffled more than a few egos when they said yes to becoming European Championship substitutes and drew with England in their opening game before going on to win the trophy . |
| 6 | Qualification for the European Championship in 1992 came after Romania drew with Bulgaria in their last match when a two-goal win would have sent them to Sweden instead of Scotland . |
| 7 | Events in our own lives take on a pattern , as if we really were walking with God in our midst , guided continually by his presence . |
| 8 | In 1711 he produced handwriting plates included in Penmanship in its Utmost Beauty and Extent ( 1731 ) , by George Bickham [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | She had long legs and a mane of blonde hair ; as she laboured at her typewriter on classified memoranda she drew into North 's office a little stream of besotted admirers , and she was to be spotted after the scandal broke driving round Washington in her red sports car ( FAWN 1 ) , blowing smoke out of the windows . |
| 10 | He virtually commuted between London and Sydney , his Australian birthplace , where he would stay for months at a time with his parents , making award-winning films , before returning to London in his safari suit , sun-bleached and fit . |
| 11 | Then Nottingham learned that Rugby had indeed beaten Harlequins so now the Beeston club have to draw or win at Orrell in their last match on April 25 and Rugby have to lose at Leicester . |
| 12 | The reason Morgan sees for the passage of society from one stage to another — and this is what is most stressed by Engels in his restatement of Morgan 's theory in The Origin — is a social break due too the fact that the various subsystems stop working in gear , and come into conflict with each other . |
| 13 | Despite Berkeley 's claim that ‘ we do at all times and in all places perceive manifest tokens of the divinity ’ , the important place occupied by God in his philosophy will inevitably seem as far removed from immediate experience as the material world of seventeenth-century philosophy seemed to Berkeley . |
| 14 | Roman fides found its way into the coins of Locri about 274 B.C. ( B. V. Head , Historia Numorum , 104 ) ; the devotio of Decius at Sentinum apparently attracted the attention of the contemporary historian Duris ( 76 F 56 Jacoby ) ; the exemplary rebuke of a Roman matrona to her son was reported by Callimachus in his Aetia ( fr. 107 Pfeiffer ) . |
| 15 | ( This date is quite incompatible with that mentioned by Carew in his ‘ Survey ’ ; one of them is obviously wrong . ) |
| 16 | The resulting historic memoir was published in 1907 , edited by Geikie in his retirement . |
| 17 | A hammer carried by Carrington in his canvas bag of tools soon tapped them into a loosened position . |
| 18 | An aspect omitted by Dudek in his description of Smith 's work . |
| 19 | On the one hand the theologians of the fifth century were also experts in rhetoric , even if the style they chose as being appropriate to their religious works was different from that used by Sidonius in his letters and poems ; on the other , Sidonius is known to have composed some ecclesiastical works including an epitaph for the ascetic Abraham , poems for various churches , as well as a version of the Mass which appears not to have survived . |
| 20 | It is convenient to relate the three meetings in terms of a diagram similar to that used by Eliot in his paper . |
| 21 | This difference is crosscut by one of the major questions addressed by Bourdieu in his earlier work ( 1977 ) but largely ignored in Distinction , which is the balance between objectivist approaches such as those found in archaeology , and subjectivist approaches , the most extreme of which would be design history or the study of Chicago homes . |
| 22 | The BUF set up the January Club , a social and intellectual front whose members did not have to be Fascist and who were addressed by Joyce in his calmer tones . |
| 23 | Tastes change , however , and the Reverend Richard Warner , writing about Midford in his Excursions from Bath in 1801 , describes it as ‘ an anomaly in building equally at war with taste and comfort ’ ! |
| 24 | Such pity as she well may have felt for Ramsey in its distress , he has traduced and despoiled , and here we have no rights . |
| 25 | At the local level control was taken away from the School Boards and put into the hands of local councils who were to serve as LEAs in their own areas . |
| 26 | Dean Richards and Rory Underwood helped swell the crowd at Newcastle Gosforth when they played for Leicester in their 10–0 Pilkington Cup quarter-final victory last Saturday . |
| 27 | In awareness of everything relevant to the issue ( = everything which would spontaneously move me one way or the other ) , I find myself moved towards X , overlooking something relevant I find myself moved towards Y. In which direction shall I let myself be moved ? |
| 28 | This can be seen throughout Formen in his struggles with the word ‘ property ’ , but that is only a beginning . |
| 29 | But while one can sympathise with Ackerley in his various predicaments , it is difficult to like him . |
| 30 | He actually came into Frankfurt in his hired BMW , then changed it for a Mercedes . |