Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over 13 years these good people have advised me or acted in my name and your service . |
| 2 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 3 | You should never talk to them or go in their cars or houses . |
| 4 | I no longer believed them or believed in them , having to believe in myself as a matter of survival . |
| 5 | Classes are fine when you 're teaching them or learning in them , very long and boring when you 're just an observer . |
| 6 | Well I that lives in Ilkley . |
| 7 | Neighbourhood Watches is organized er in the , there 's , we have a head coordinator i of each scheme which is er someone that lives in the area . |
| 8 | No doubt those whom we so recently persuaded to seek their bread elsewhere are hungry because they are idle , vicious , and ill-conditioned and think it easier to rob such innocent and harmless passers-by as I than to toil in the fields . ’ |
| 9 | Probably I shall meet someone and fall in love with him and marry him and things will seem to change and I sha n't care any more . |
| 10 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 11 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 12 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 13 | I had written my reasons for so thinking ; but as they were not satisfactory to the other noble and learned Lords who heard the case , I do not now repeat them nor persist in them . |
| 14 | Now what 's funny about this place is they 're all Italians that are in there but there 's loads of them that live in this particular area , that lived in Bedford for a long time . |
| 15 | I 'd rather the mountain killed me than die in some hospital . ’ |
| 16 | Sadly he deteriorated very quickly until he could no longer care for himself or communicate in any understandable way . |
| 17 | On the contrary , it draws attention to the dangers of introducing western technology outside , and even in the west it 's a good illustration this of the extent to which or work in countries overseas has relevance for Britain , because we have done a great deal of work on the implications for the unemployment problem of having technology which requires too much capital , which has a very ratio of capital to labour . |
| 18 | The main purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for social , community and health workers to explore social , ethical and legal issues emerging from the practice of genital mutilation , which although prohibited in Britain , affects girls resident here whose families take them abroad to be circumcised . |
| 19 | Others are the periods of inevitable stress and anxiety which although varying in degree and pleasurability/sadness do surround incidents like changing school , job or house ; getting married or divorced ; child bearing , and death of loved ones . |
| 20 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 21 | Oh there 's somebody that lived in the house in |
| 22 | It 's like we 're sort of living here together — you know , sort of like we 're married or summat and living in a proper house of our own and all that . |
| 23 | He has a tremendous respect for Fowler , adding : ‘ If he applied himself and packed in his job as a taxman he could be the best in the world . |
| 24 | But then he restrained himself and said in a quiet voice , ‘ Know anythin' about sailin' ? ’ |
| 25 | Patrick answered the door himself and smiled in delight as he saw Kate on his doorstep . |
| 26 | a programme of reconstruction which if applied in practice would create an educational edifice not unworthy of the British people … |
| 27 | And I recall also some years ago , Mr Rayne , who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginald Mauvis , remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station . |
| 28 | UAPT duplicates this on card files indexed by name rather than address ( except for London , which if fled in address order like the national register ) in 42 area branch offices . |
| 29 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 30 | This provided an example of a well-understood formalism which if interrogated in a particle-like way gave particle behaviour and if interrogated in a wave-like way gave wave behaviour . |