Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These rhetorical features seem , however , to suffer from being at odds with the rest of the passage , as if James wants us to catch in them a certain false emotionalism in the tone of the speaker . |
| 2 | The words seemed to catch in her throat . |
| 3 | He had never caused her breath to catch in her throat or her mouth to dry with a mixture of hope and dread that he might reach for her . |
| 4 | If a woman married a poorer husband , however , she was left to struggle in what source B calls ‘ the white slave traffic ’ . |
| 5 | But there was no need to worry in his case . |
| 6 | Conscience gave her an uncomfortable nip , for it could n't exactly be said to be the height of honour for her to accept his invitation to dine in his home in the guise of a journalist when she was n't one , but Fabia went and studied her wardrobe . |
| 7 | Mass Ob gave specially produced round-bag samples to 300 people to try in their homes . |
| 8 | Equally , however , the constable and marshal of the army had authority delegated to them to try in their courts ( in which the military law was applied ) men such as deserters and those who broke the rules of discipline . |
| 9 | Brookes introduced the concept of ‘ periodical utility ’ , which he defined as the number of references a paper could be expected to attract in its particular library context during the period it remained in the library . |
| 10 | A volatile thing , apt to ferment in her without her even being aware of it . |
| 11 | He himself was able to bequeath only plate and household goods , and to request in his will to be buried under a ‘ plain black stone ’ with a simple inscription recording his Christian belief . |
| 12 | I turn back to Rachel to nestle in her warmth . |
| 13 | This time his fingers seemed to tighten in her hair , drawing her mouth like a prisoner against his . |
| 14 | His eyes narrowed and a muscle seemed to tighten in his cheek . |
| 15 | But even under optimal conditions in captivity , we see very different potential lifespans in organisms that do not seem to differ in their risk of damage , showing that the degree of ageing has evolved . |
| 16 | People can be expected to differ in their abilities and this inevitably gives some people a comparative advantage in processing information , making decisions , and communicating them to others . |
| 17 | Whatever lingering nostalgia he might have felt , Delves chose to look ahead , to concentrate on the new business opportunities that Mr Akayev is keen to encourage in his ‘ little Switzerland ’ , most of which has only in recent months been opened up to foreigners . |
| 18 | Definitely an insect to encourage in your garden . |
| 19 | This is something that many parents also find difficult to accept in their daughters . |
| 20 | Here it is sufficient to say that , disagree with their particularities as one may , they present a good working model of sexual development and one which it is hard not to accept in its essentials . |
| 21 | To be a highly visible minority of two in communities which were often as expressive as they were antagonistic was an abrupt reversal of the roles we had so unthinkingly come to accept in our British prep schools . |
| 22 | He would have liked to have known what Louis planned , if only to know in whose cause Colonel Smith had sacrificed his life and how much information Smith had kept hidden . |
| 23 | Before venturing on new formulas , however , it is as well to have an idea of what the old recipes were like and to know in what quantities , approximately , the ingredients were portioned out . |
| 24 | I would like to know in what proportion of the control patients the referring general practitioner considered the diagnosis of malignant melanoma . |
| 25 | As we have seen , it is difficult to know in what sense one may talk of an unselfconscious elite , and Bachrach and Baratz 's more limited point is the more cogent . |
| 26 | It would help to know in what way precisely he maligned people , but the child remained as mum as a mute , one hand gripped tightly into a fist , the other holding the mug of cocoa . |
| 27 | It 's difficult to know in what way you would actually set about doing this . |
| 28 | You 've go to know in your mind what you 're going to talk about . |
| 29 | If you say , ‘ Well , of course , yes , I can easily explain that , but basically we 'll transfer the the , the handling of the enquiry to A Department , which of course has responsibility to B , but B ca n't do that without C , ’ you have to know in your own organization that that 's the way the procedure works , but it will mean nothing to the listener . |
| 30 | He has , therefore , to know in his own mind how much power he can harness into a technique and what he is capable of . |