Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But irrespective of how they construe the common sense which is the policeman or woman 's working knowledge , seniors are agreed that new recruits need experience of life to enable them to deal with the range of situations and people they encounter in their work . |
| 2 | The mnemonic RAM reminds you of repetition , association and mnemonics , and these three techniques can be used in combination or separately to retain in your memory the facts , ideas or opinions that you encounter in your studies . |
| 3 | All this marking and writing and reference back and forth between different textbooks and notes is the correct way to deal with impersonal communication of the kind that you encounter in your studies . |
| 4 | His abuse beat in her face like rain so heavy that it forced shut her eyes . |
| 5 | You could see the pulse beat in his neck . |
| 6 | He had walked along this track with Sandy , arm in arm , and as the wind beat in his face he recalled the weather had been similar . |
| 7 | The two Highlanders grinned as if they understood every word , Carey smirked whilst Scawsby gave that neighing laugh which made the blood beat in my temples . |
| 8 | But at night when they get sleepy they always go to their mother and sleep in her embrace . |
| 9 | I eat their food , I sleep in their bed , I shag their daughter now and again . ’ |
| 10 | Older children also sleep in their parents ' room , a pattern which continued in the middle class Bangladeshi families in this sample and those in which the parents had grown up in Britain . |
| 11 | They sleep in their socks and their trousers and their tunics , and still the cold bites them . |
| 12 | ‘ Yet , at that age they are still nursed , still sleep in their mother 's arms , are still three years away from puberty , and about four years from when they will conceive their first offspring . ’ |
| 13 | Softly he added , ‘ Come and sleep in my arms . ’ |
| 14 | I often sleep in my coat , ’ he backed away from her , all the way towards the door ; then on the landing , and for no reason that he could give to himself , he turned and ran not towards his bedroom but across the landing , over the gallery , down the stairs , through the hall to the front door . |
| 15 | He says , I 've been about , he said I see you still sleep in your bed , but you 're not putting them bloody pistachios ! |
| 16 | A murmur lifted in her throat like the sound of the wind blowing . |
| 17 | Jed 's heart lifted in his ribs . |
| 18 | Given that these ‘ older ’ users are more likely to have worked and to inject heroin , rather than smoke it , the sample is skewed away from the archetypal ‘ young unemployed heroin chaser ’ profiled in our prevalence surveys . |
| 19 | The words seemed to catch in her throat . |
| 20 | He had never caused her breath to catch in her throat or her mouth to dry with a mixture of hope and dread that he might reach for her . |
| 21 | The menu along the top of the screen is , of course , a pop-down , mouse-driven affair , but the shades of the DOS version still linger in its layout . |
| 22 | Anyway , it has a spacious and homely feeling about it left over from the bad days of British Imperialism , and this is epitomised in my bathroom , which has an enormous ( though now cracked ) Shanks sink , made in Scotland ! |
| 23 | If a woman married a poorer husband , however , she was left to struggle in what source B calls ‘ the white slave traffic ’ . |
| 24 | But there was no need to worry in his case . |
| 25 | Chairs decorously ranged in their places , the white cloth gone . |
| 26 | They involve in their essence the consideration of the future of the nation state . |
| 27 | so he sits there erm , and you know you involve in our conversation , but he sits there talking to her and then he sort of feels out of it and then he storms off |
| 28 | Nevertheless , a close relationship was sustained , each Sunday evening saw the three brothers and their wives and children gathering together at Rachel Cohen 's home in highly convivial mood , Leonard 's grandmother being especially delighted in her firstborn 's firstborn . |
| 29 | Each harsh look , each savage word was like a knife twisting in her heart . |
| 30 | ‘ Allow me to sit back in amazement , young Ashley , ’ I said , crossing my arms and twisting in my seat to face her . |