Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone sits in a circle with one child , possibly the birthday girl , being ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ in the middle blindfolded . |
| 2 | Everyone sits in a circle with one person sitting blindfolded in the middle . |
| 3 | Everyone sits in a circle with an unbreakable plate in the centre . |
| 4 | There will eventually be 10 zones in all , each of them designated in an area of particularly high unemployment . |
| 5 | Cut a slice off the bottom of each pear to enable them to sit in a dish without falling over , and place in an ovenproof dish well spaced out . |
| 6 | You want me to go in a garage and ask for , have you got a flick on band ! |
| 7 | She had them hidden in a box , in the store room . |
| 8 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
| 9 | Wickham revived the Black Friar meeting , suggesting Maureen knew what Barron wanted to talk to her father about and asking why it had been important to them to meet in a pub instead of one of the two Fleet Street offices at their disposal . |
| 10 | ‘ He brings considerable outside experience and proven ability in defining practical business strategies and putting them to work in a market environment , ’ Mr Hugh Smith said . |
| 11 | But when we ask children to write , we often ask them to work in an atmosphere where all sorts of noises compete for attention . |
| 12 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 13 | To his list we could add attorneys and even local receivers of taxes , six of whom appear in a list of country bankers drawn up in 1784 . |
| 14 | Everyone lives in a world of such meanings ’ . |
| 15 | Solowka is refreshingly honest , but the band 's efforts were legitimate enough to prompt the British Ukrainian Association to ask them to appear in a video newsletter and the set definitely broadened the band 's appeal . |
| 16 | I wish that the Minister would respond to a point that I made in a debate last week when I spoke of the tragedy that the employment advisory service — available to prisoners both before and after their release — had been withdrawn by the Government . |
| 17 | I mean in a way the purse thing is a bit more distant |
| 18 | Yeah , I mean what was nice in , in a way was that er I could n't go to the last meeting I was n't well , I had a cold er , what was nice in a way was that David who 's the general manager and the general manager from Pitlochry had come in , I mean in a way it was a classic case |
| 19 | Well I mean in a way it would be nice to have one more new one |
| 20 | Yeah but I mean in a way you can understand |
| 21 | I mean in a way I think it 's probably the best thing that 's happened to me for a while cos I could see myself see the thing is I can I was n't ever planning to be here for even six months . |
| 22 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 23 | In that well yeah I mean in a sense er that 's right because if you think about it , in eighteen in eighteen fifteen er the great powers stayed in existence mainly because of a fear of a of of fear of France . |
| 24 | Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are . |
| 25 | And deal with the issue actually on the Economic Development Committee budget , because er , I mean in a sense , Economic Development Committee has n't always played the game , you never know when you 're being asked to identify target reductions by an authority , they have found those target reductions , so have the Planning Committee , so have Trading Standards . |
| 26 | I mean in a sense they were just sacrificing peasants for that strategy . |
| 27 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 28 | Well , we 're going to continue with press releases after lunch , but let me just , I mean in a sense , those were fiction . |
| 29 | ‘ I mean in a house ’ |
| 30 | They I mean in a time when it 's sort of been difficult to make money erm why is that one got not gone by the board and more amateur production put in there ? |