Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 2 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 3 | ( It would be advisable to make a copy of this and keep it in the ‘ Record of Achievement ’ as insurance against loss of the original . ) |
| 4 | For some obscure reason , Tawell was convinced that installing himself in the company of such a simple and pious set would give him a veneer of respectability , however he conducted himself otherwise . |
| 5 | Cuddling on the couch with your husband in front of other people is frowned upon just as much as kissing him in the street . |
| 6 | The parson there , the chapel parson , he went there ; and it just lifted the roof off the chapel like that and killed him in the pulpit , blew in the wall . |
| 7 | They quickly saw that and had me in the theatre the next day . |
| 8 | ‘ So , ’ Nathan pulled the towel from his shoulder and tossed it aside , ‘ after you 've tidied the galley , wipe the oilskins dry and hang them in the locker . |
| 9 | ‘ You remember : they wear pants and take us out to dinner if we 're very lucky and kick us in the teeth every chance they get . ’ |
| 10 | Women prisoners in Armagh had political status until 1975 but lost it in the following year and the numbers in Armagh rose dramatically during the late seventies . |
| 11 | pull it up , well they might leave it and just co disconnect it but they they 'd have to bring it in , I do n't it 'd be better I think if we had ours in the back because the , the telephone thing comes in from the back be better than having it in the , in the passage really . |
| 12 | ‘ Take it from me , kid — ambushing 's a lot better than smacking him in the snout . |
| 13 | Mr Rooker , MP for Perry Barr in Birmingham , discovered the existence of the POWs Fund in 1976 and publicised it in the Midlands . |
| 14 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 15 | Get them all and meet me in the Operations Room . |
| 16 | All you need to do is fill in the registration card that comes with your software or peripheral and pop it in the post box . |
| 17 | Erm we have the graduates who we 're training up and they 're not very good and drop us in the mire sometimes . |
| 18 | mm , I shall er get the other lot in and do that , do that first thing in the morning , get every thing cleared up , and then if you give me your pull overs , I can hand wash those and put them in the spin drier so you 'd better sort them out do you think you 'd of put some tassels in that pelmet ? , you know where the I 've got some spare one 's no , do n't you remember I went into and he gave me a piece of the trimming and I can take the tassels off |
| 19 | Then we can return to the problem of persuading the giant to leave us alone and ask who in the drama has those qualities ? |
| 20 | Oh better take that biscuit tin away before they eat the lot , got that lid , get that and put , have one more and get it in the kitchen Charlotte |
| 21 | Winchelsey learnt of this bull in December 1296 and published it in the assembly of January 1297 , called to consider the royal demand made in November on which they had deferred a decision . |
| 22 | ‘ We must tread carefully , because my postbag suggests that allegations of rape can arise from previously non-sexual relationships , where the man goes too far and persuades himself in the passion of a moment that ‘ No ’ means ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I have work to attend to , Master Corbett The inn-keeper 's body has been coffined and has now to be churched before the villagers become too drunk and dump him in the pond . ’ |
| 24 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 25 | Clean the gunge that is probably beneath these brushes , rub everything clean and return them in the right order . |
| 26 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 27 | When it 's as warm as it is tonight , you 'll be able to leave the hatch open and imagine yourselves in the heart of Venice . " |
| 28 | ‘ There , ’ he said , claiming her achievement as his own and inflating it in the process . |
| 29 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 30 | Prune your notes if necessary and arrange them in the order in which you would like to use them . |