Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not go into cafés , browse in cake shops , linger over the chocolate counter , or bake a batch of biscuits . |
| 2 | Surface waters in contact with melting ice tend to be very thinly populated with zooplankton . |
| 3 | The Canto as a whole , whatever its incidental obscurities , is plainly concerned with the phenomenon of ‘ the living dead ’ , focussed in part , as Ronald Bush has invaluably pointed out , on the old men , Clemenceau , Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson , legislating at Versailles for a future they had no part in . |
| 4 | A course designed to meet the needs of people in industry who have to communicate in English during their working lives . |
| 5 | No previous knowledge of Persian is required for admission to Persian 1 ; by the end of the year students should be able to read newspapers and simple Persian texts , and to communicate in Persian with native speakers . |
| 6 | Over what distance do cells have to communicate in order to establish their position ? |
| 7 | One line of evidence connecting manual activity and symbolic language processes concerns cases of " signing aphasia " in the deaf This refers to the deficit shown by those individuals who have learned to use their hands to communicate in sign language and subsequently sustain brain damage which impairs this ability . |
| 8 | Beating drums and sticks and piping , with dancers and tumblers leaping ahead of them , the grave band of three old men and four younger ones in cloaks of feathers and aprons of leaves had approached him and they had parleyed , as far as their inability to communicate in language allowed . |
| 9 | The answer follows through : it is , as a minimum , to provide the graduates of higher education with the capacity not merely to go on learning , but also to go on being critical of all they encounter in thought and action . |
| 10 | Here Donaldson draws attention to the importance of the new systems of representation that children encounter in school , in the acquisition of literacy and numeracy . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the context created in the deductive marking experiment did involve the child having knowledge which the addressee ( the Pink Panther ) lacked , and so it was probably more conducive to the production of deductive explanations than many of the contexts children encounter in school . |
| 12 | The science that children encounter in school sometimes introduces domains of which children have little or no everyday experience . |
| 13 | He argued that thought does not arise out of abstract logical puzzles but from specific problems which we encounter in practice . |
| 14 | Beat for 15mins , then beat in glycerine . |
| 15 | The records need to be sorted in order of a particular ( key ) field before storing the data on to the file . |
| 16 | Thus the list of books mentioned in the example above , could be keyed in and sorted in RAM but if the microcomputer was switched off , the information would disappear as the RAM would be cleared . |
| 17 | ‘ For God 's sake , Elizabeth , if you must go rushing off to protest meetings , could n't you have done your protesting there , and let the rest of us sleep in peace ? ’ |
| 18 | Around 10,000 homeless people sleep in public shelters every night . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't care if I sleep in camp or the Bastille . |
| 20 | Guest cowhands sleep in log cabins and learn square dancing as well as horsemanship . |
| 21 | As I linger in the grassy cart tracks joining two fields that sleep in afternoon idleness , the smell of Rayless Mayweed crushed underfoot overcomes the other pleasant hay and pasture odours . |
| 22 | Sleep in bus stations ? |
| 23 | The Tomy Cosy Bouncer is a super snug carrier that lets baby travel in style , sleep in comfort and bounce when it wants to . |
| 24 | Gourmet shops and galleries , furniture and fashion , antiques and 1066 collectables , books on the Battle of Hastings and , of course , the Sussex trug , will make for a shopping experience surrounded in history . |
| 25 | This desolation is known as the Chaos Wastes or the Northern Wastes , and is surrounded in turn by only slightly less corrupted lands of distorted trees and broken rocks called the Troll Country . |
| 26 | Since then the future of Holly Park has been surrounded in controversy . |
| 27 | Now he had drawn level with the fire , and as the villagers caught the air of his song he was quickly rewarded with the sound of their voices — men , women and children — lifted in unison . |
| 28 | Vietnam was keen to see the embargo lifted in order to pave the way for a resumption of IMF lending . |
| 29 | Properties and bank accounts used for laundering guerrilla funds would be confiscated , with bank secrecy laws lifted in order to facilitate investigation . |
| 30 | One corner of Nathan 's mouth lifted in derision . |