Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 2 | When I visit my home city of Manchester , or travel to London , New Age-types seem to greet me in every other conversation . |
| 3 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 4 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 5 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 6 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 7 | Wilson 's Cabinet — jealous of a non-political and non-party intruder — had decided not to include me in the team . |
| 8 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 9 | Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them . |
| 10 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 11 | He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too . |
| 12 | We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out . |
| 13 | When questions , for example on morbidity , had been validated in the General Household Survey , it would be possible to include them in the Resource Allocation Survey . |
| 14 | We had some discussion at somewhere , that we decided that erm to include them in the divisional training , Yeah . |
| 15 | Incidentally , if you have any items which you think would be of interest to the Residents , your scribe would be happy to include them in the Newsletter . |
| 16 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 17 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 18 | See when you get them socks off then why do n't you throw them in the bin . |
| 19 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 20 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 21 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 22 | Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh . |
| 23 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 24 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
| 25 | They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’ |
| 26 | She could n't look out to see them in the yard . |
| 27 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 28 | We do n't get to see them in the states so we have to come over here . |
| 29 | Well it 's good to see them in the bath anyway having a good good old splash about , you know ? |
| 30 | Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children . |