Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , men frequently migrate to the towns , leaving their families behind either to be visited at week-ends or to join them in the town at a later date . |
| 2 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 3 | He pulled them both under the blanket , cradled her to him , crooned words that meant nothing in her ear , kissed new tears from her cheeks . |
| 4 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 5 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 6 | And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’ |
| 7 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
| 8 | breaking their legs and kicking them in their bollo I mean balls , in the , in the , in the |
| 9 | This guy , yeah , he falls in love with this woman , takes her to his apartment and slowly , he 's a surgeon and he slowly amputates all her arms and legs and keeps her in a box . |
| 10 | After going to his parents ' home at about 5am , Abram , who had earlier been out drinking in the nearby Valkaries pub , washed his blood stained trainers and dried them in the microwave oven , it was claimed . |
| 11 | Apparently , they consider that their responsibilities end when they have unpacked their baggage of trophies from the record offices and arranged them in a convincing pattern . |
| 12 | The pinder , whose job it was to round up stray animals and keep them in the pinfold , to be released on payment of a fine , was also known as the axeman . |
| 13 | The Lamia also had a peculiar ability to take out her eyes and hold them in her hand . |
| 14 | Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a bookshop . |
| 15 | She looked into his dark eyes and submerged herself in the bliss of being flattered . |
| 16 | This type of informal intervention in turn increased confusion over the weight to be attached to the enterprise 's different objectives , and made it harder to co-ordinate political goals and express them in a coherent manner . |
| 17 | ‘ If we had been away and had a long night-time car journey ahead of us , ’ he said , ‘ we used to put the children in their pyjamas and wrap them in blankets before we started . |
| 18 | and it took me as long to put the dinners up and clean the shoes and I thought well he 's swimming , so I got his togs and put 'em in his bag and |
| 19 | To ‘ freeze-dry ’ his wigs , David simply applies gel to the wigs and places them in the freezer for 30 minutes ! |
| 20 | People risked everything to help escapers and want nothing in return . |
| 21 | The researchers found that a change of curriculum from traditional academic subjects to topics of local relevance forced a change of roles for teachers and pupils ( the latter becoming knowledge-holders ) and a change of methods and time-tabling which in the end proved non-acceptable , least of all to parents who favoured the traditional approach as a gateway to success , and resisted innovation ( 17 ) . |
| 22 | 3 Choose at least five of the words and use them in your own sentences . |
| 23 | I exchange this particular envelope for two one-ounce packets and hide them in my hand . |
| 24 | These rules can also be deduced by imagining that we try to send extra goods ‘ round the cycle ’ by increasing the flow of goods in edges corresponding to forward variables and reducing it in edges corresponding to reverse variables . |
| 25 | He held her by the shoulders and kissed her in continental fashion on the cheeks . |
| 26 | I shrugged my shoulders and answered him in Spanish . |
| 27 | This product grabs Windows by the lapels and uses it in a whole new way . |
| 28 | ‘ These others , they want to cut you with their knives and throw you in the river . |
| 29 | They will have sorted bricks and arranged them in neat piles ( sorting and setting ) . |
| 30 | In spite of the difficulties caused by the weather , Carrie produced a meal of baked rabbit , potatoes , swede and carrots and put it in front of Seb while the wind rattled the door and windows and an occasional gust seemed to shake the very house itself . |