Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You take men from their homes or their chosen occupations , you confine them in insalubrious conditions upon a wholly inadequate diet , you subject them to the tyranny of bosun 's mates , you expose them to unimagined perils ; what is more , you defraud them of their meagre food , pay and allowances — everything but this sacred rum of yours . |
| 2 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 3 | Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and |
| 4 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 5 | ‘ Local authorities will be encouraged to employ specialist archaeological officers , to develop archaeological policies and to include them in local and district plans . |
| 6 | Nevertheless the British government refused to assign its Polaris submarines permanently and unambiguously to Nato , or to include them in any of the current multinational or multilateral ( MLF ) schemes being floated by the Americans . |
| 7 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you — I 'd prefer to see them in full sunlight , ’ Lucy said hastily , in case Silas imagined she was anxious to experience a moonlight stroll with him . |
| 9 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 10 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 11 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 12 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 13 | I 've the head of the Board of Tourism coming to see me in five minutes . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
| 15 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 16 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 17 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 18 | Not er like they bring them in these cardboard boxes you know , wooden boxes . |
| 19 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 20 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 21 | Notation or codes are appended to a sequence of topics in order to arrange them in some clearly defined order . |
| 22 | Many disabled people , often on income support , may earn relatively low wages , and the consequences of a minimum wage would be a withdrawal of job opportunities which would probably affect them in particular . |
| 23 | ‘ Why do you insist on seeing me in this horrible way ? ’ she finished up . |
| 24 | The role of the museum is to present the collection in a fresh way , both showing unfamiliar paintings and hanging them in natural light ’ . |
| 25 | The government did indeed make new judicial arrangements for the peasantry , but it made them in 1861 . |
| 26 | Ask yourself the question , ‘ Is it my desire , my greed , my wish to be in control that drives me in this matter , or do I feel the lightness of purpose that is a mark of the guidance from within ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You nearly expected me in vain , ’ the Friar said . |
| 28 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 29 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 30 | For example , Hungary , Poland and Romania were inserted into the upper-middle-income group , where their apparent per capita income scores would locate them in any case , whereas Angola , Cuba and North Korea were transplanted from lower-middle-income to nonreporting nonmembers . |