Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oh there 's somebody that lived in the house in |
| 6 | which when chilled in the fridge ( not freezer ) acts as a cold compress for baby 's gums and helps to reduce any discomfort he 's feeling . |
| 7 | But my dogs have always , much rather come shopping with me and sit in the , . |
| 8 | People smiled at me and sang in the streets . |
| 9 | He turned his head slightly towards me and spoke in the direction of my tie . |
| 10 | It bounced and rolled between them and lay in the shadow of the chair . |
| 11 | All the children who were living far away , they brought a sandwich and a flask with them and eating in the desk in the classroom . |
| 12 | The archaeologist ran in front of them and stood in the middle of the road . |
| 13 | Bodie got out of the car and strolled past the two men , standing quite close to them and browsing in the window of the shop before which they stood . |
| 14 | Woolley turned his back on them and sat in the middle of the cloth . |
| 15 | You cut off all the old you that gets in the way of the maker you . |
| 16 | But you 're the ones it 's not me it 's you that counts in the end . |
| 17 | It was quite a new idea over here , you did n't do your washing at home but brought it out to these machines , and the courteous manager greeted you and put in the soap powder for you , and had the clothes all ready for you when you came back , but was n't alas , as it turned out , much of a hand at doing the accounts . |
| 18 | It shook itself and cracked in the air . |
| 19 | The talent he has encouraged and given much time and effort to , includes the 1986 Club Champion , 20-year-old Simon Barrington who was twice Junior Champion ; Michael Orris , the Joint Course record holder and County Alliance player ; Guy Phillips , still 17 , the Junior Champion and Captain ( handicap 5 ) and who whilst competing in the Daily Express Ford qualifying round at Royal Mid-Surrey in 1986 played to level par and went on to play in the finals in Spain ) ; Henry Bareham , also handicap 5 , who played for English Schools and Graham Booth , the Thames Valley League Junior Champion . |
| 20 | Thirdly , a later section grandly describes itself as engaged in the ‘ [ r ] epeal of statutory powers of arrest without warrant or order ’ . |
| 21 | Or you can do absolutely nothing but lie in the sun in the garden and tan . |
| 22 | To him everything that happens in the natural world is rational through and through and subject to a rigid norm . |
| 23 | His journals , which he has published at regular intervals ( the fourteenth volume appeared recently in France ) bear witness to the enormous interest he takes in everything that happens in the world outside him , and to a human being scornful of bourgeois conformity , almost an anarchist , and a convinced pacifist . |
| 24 | Everything that occurs in the organization is in one way or another idea-handling . |
| 25 | Everything in the sun was old gold ; everything that lay in the shade was blue . |
| 26 | She recorded everything that passed in the room , but she cared for only one person . |
| 27 | All right , you might find everything that crawls in the yard an' they might get as far as downstairs here and there , but not up here . |
| 28 | Colt sat at a table outside the café that saw everything that moved in the village . |
| 29 | It was true what was said of him — he knew everything , but everything that happened in the hotel , even , it seemed , what took place in the ladies ' lavatories . |
| 30 | John was unlike anyone Anne knew with his views on everything that happened in the world . |