Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Miguel tipped her chin so that she had to look into his eyes , she said rather bitterly , ‘ It sounds rather like where you took Victoria in the Mercedes , Miguel . |
| 2 | A bad interviewer can give a potentially excellent employee such a negative impression that he or she loses interest in the job . |
| 3 | ‘ In the days before there was much legislation on public health matters , public nuisance was the only offence for which it was possible to prosecute those who stank out the neighbourhood with fumes from glassworks , tanneries and smelters , or who kept pigs in the streets , or kept explosives in dangerous places … |
| 4 | Plaited flex certainly but it probably had a large knot or something to increase pressure in the region of the larynx . ’ |
| 5 | The tries , three in the first half , when the USA had the wind advantage , were well taken , leaving the USA to ponder how a game where they had parity in the scrums and very much the upper hand out of touch , winning the lines-out 16–5 , could have been lost by such a comprehensive margin . |
| 6 | Towards the end of September the adult birds begin their long migratory journey south across the Atlantic where they will winter in the tropical seas of South America . |
| 7 | The company , which makes high barrier flexible packaging for the food industry , moved machinery , materials and all its support equipment from Courtaulds ' Bridgwater site , where it began life in the mid-1980s , ten miles down the motorway to a purpose-built new unit . |
| 8 | The United Arab Emirates that I coached play in the Holtons Sonic Welding Intermediate League ( North ) and are not a national side at all . |
| 9 | Thus to the question ‘ Why do you feel affection for your children ? ’ or ‘ Why are you inclined to assist animals ( or fellow citizens ) in pain ? ’ , it would sound lame and otiose to reply that it is because your children are kind and decent , or that you assist others in the hope that they will assist you , or that you do both to contribute to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of creatures . |
| 10 | The preacher 's enquiry , ‘ Do you KNOW … do you KNOW , that you have ready for you houses , houses I say ; I say do you KNOW ; do you KNOW that you have houses in the heavens not made with hands ? ’ falls on ears preoccupied with earthly buildings and builders . |
| 11 | You then complete a declaration , including proof that you have £1,000 in the bank ( loans and overdrafts qualify ) . |
| 12 | I have a very vague idea of what this terrible crime is that I 'm trying to get to the bottom of , that you have rats in the basement of your best hotel , or you know , there 's a house falling down somewhere and you 've done absolutely nothing about a closing order , any of these kind of things , but I do n't know a lot about it . |
| 13 | It also shows that you have confidence in the product . |
| 14 | The only reason I can see that you need players in the first teams is to see if they are playing well enough at a high level . |
| 15 | But I stay out there singing some made-up song that goes with the waves crunching on the shingle , so she tosses stones in the water to plop near me in the darkness and I shout like an idiot and run back to the shore . |
| 16 | Boris Becker recently expressed the view that there was too much money in tennis and that it was ruining the game — a view of course that it is much easier to make objectively once you have £5m in the bank . |
| 17 | I remind her that , following President Yeltsin 's recent visit and the welcome changes in connection with what is a hugely large arsenal of nuclear weapons , the top priority of proliferation at present is to ensure that we take action in the ways that I described in my answer . |
| 18 | One adviser , for instance , protested to Johnson on 28 July 1966 , " In short , we are up against an attitude of mind which , in effect , prefers that we take losses in the free world rather than the risks of confrontation . " |
| 19 | We were both agreed that we prefer adventures in the hills rather than on strife-ridden streets . |
| 20 | Now that we have video in the classroom the opportunity to focus on the visual is clearly there , so should we attempt to include it in a systematic way ? |
| 21 | He was certainly very keen that we have John in the band . |
| 22 | And the first thing you do is demand that we have butter in the house . |
| 23 | He believes that at below 2400 points the downside of a hung parliament is limited and that there remains upside in the chance that the Conservatives ‘ could still sneak in ’ . |
| 24 | You can see from Figure 9.5 that there exist regions in the Jovian atmosphere where temperatures are about 300 K and the corresponding pressures are a few bars . |
| 25 | Including ACT , they pay more UK tax than they make money in the UK . |
| 26 | Whirligigs of bubblegum-pink and fuchsia , mauve , lime and café au lait look even more fun now than they did back in the Sixties — when men last loved them . |
| 27 | Mackintosh ( 1960 ) draws attention to an important aspect of the annual vertical migration that many species follow ; dispersing northward at the surface in summer , their descent to 400–600 m in winter ensures that they return south in the southward-flowing waters at those depths . |
| 28 | Bile and bile salts inhibit motility and it has been proposed that they take part in the putative ‘ ileal brake ’ mechanism . |
| 29 | On the rare occasions that they took place in the dining-room Fru Møller 's professional know-how and courtesy were apt to desert her . |
| 30 | I 'd learned their names only to the extent that they owned horses in the horse car or had touched bases with Filmer , which came to only about half . |