Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be professionally improper for them to interest themselves in the social or leisure activities of their pupils ; and it would be unsuitable to their professionalism if they were involved in purely supervisory or ancillary duties , which are carried out , where necessary , by unqualified assistants . |
| 2 | Graham sitting there waiting for me to kick him in the teeth . |
| 3 | It was difficult for me to put myself in the Guérigny frame of mind , to accommodate both the knowledge of a beloved 's death and the sense of her imminent return . |
| 4 | But it would be natural for me to put you in the golf club area . |
| 5 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 6 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |
| 7 | The boundaries may have been short , with netting to protect the club 's offices , but it was worthwhile practice for Smith , and a glimpse of warmer times ahead for a remarkable crowd ; there were about 100 well wrapped-up diehards , one of whom plonked himself in a red deckchair on the outfield , dangerously at midwicket . |
| 8 | It does not take much to imagine the effect of this on a group of already dispirited players , all of whom held him in the warmest affection . |
| 9 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 10 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 11 | Then one of them put her in the carrier cage and took her out while the other closed the door on her empty cage . |
| 12 | Erm , if erm , if one of them contradicted me in the class , I burst into tears , I think you 'd think something was seriously wrong with me , would n't you ? |
| 13 | Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’ |
| 14 | I had expected that one or two of the fry might tentatively explore this new hiding place ; what in fact happened was that the ENTIRE brood crammed themselves into it within a minute of my putting it in the tank . |
| 15 | Underneath this heading list any of the items below which bring you in an income : |
| 16 | There is no record of who owns what in the area of mining rights ; thus a mining company may have to spend years discovering to whom it has to pay royalties even after it has ascertained that a piece of Britain contains valuable metals . |
| 17 | Well as he said well he did n't say but I mean it 's just a question of him putting them in the post . |
| 18 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 19 | Suddenly she was deeply afraid of what awaited her in the other world beyond it . |
| 20 | Many of us hold ourselves in the most distorted positions and when tensions are released the changes can be quite dramatic . |
| 21 | Finding out about who does what in the EC and how the Brussels institutional web works is a complex and costly operation . |
| 22 | And I will actually draw or paint a word picture for you to put you in the scene . |
| 23 | The moment you feel the need for confession and the Mass , tell me and I 'll arrange for you to join us in the chapel . ’ |
| 24 | Anything there too old , coats , anything that 's left on the floor , old boots , shoes that you too small for you throw them in the bin . |
| 25 | A story is when McTavish wants to build a better world for everyone — just like you have it in the book , I do n't want to change anything — and the local hoods jump on him . |
| 26 | She had been surprised to find that he did n't feel it beneath him to help her in the house . |
| 27 | Plants have little specific focus for mind energy , such as we see it in the brain and central nervous system of insects and higher species . |
| 28 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 29 | His plea was well received by his listeners who , if they did not quite accept his characterisation of the present moment as a ‘ cultural war ’ between the advocates of free expression and individuals he referred to as ‘ know-nothings ’ , nonetheless were happy , even relieved , to have something resembling moral high ground from which to defend themselves in the controversy and even take the battle back to the ‘ enemy ’ . |
| 30 | If , for instance , the nurse is to develop a range of counselling skills there seems little point in her learning it in a theoretical sense . |