Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 2 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 3 | He pulled the video-cassette free and gripped it in his free hand , the pistol still trained on the tall |
| 4 | He wanted to be different and run it in Germany ! |
| 5 | For some obscure reason , Tawell was convinced that installing himself in the company of such a simple and pious set would give him a veneer of respectability , however he conducted himself otherwise . |
| 6 | I used to roll them in my hand and get them warm and get them in my finger like that and shoot it down , and watch it go down er |
| 7 | He would time it just right and throw himself in front of the branch line train , he knew the train did n't go very fast but it would do … |
| 8 | ‘ Eating a sensible diet is the simple way to ensure your cholesterol level stays low and to keep yourself in good , all-round health . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless the constructive work of Communists in the Blitz and the war factories kept the Party alive and put it in a good position to exploit the opportunities for expansion that followed Hitler 's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 . |
| 10 | Mr Budgen said : ‘ The Government 's actions have been disgraceful , describing Maastricht as an issue of confidence in private and denying it in public . |
| 11 | Answer : they have bribed , connived , schemed , cheated and bullied everyone in sight , just to get the odd game or two . |
| 12 | If you need to keep them longer , rinse and pat dry and store them in a sealable container in the fridge . |
| 13 | They will need staking and tying to prevent damage from wind and when finished , lift , dry and store them in a frost-free shed for replanting the following year . |
| 14 | ‘ So , ’ Nathan pulled the towel from his shoulder and tossed it aside , ‘ after you 've tidied the galley , wipe the oilskins dry and hang them in the locker . |
| 15 | If the SNP manages to overcome its bitterness towards Labour and join it in a united push for change , the cause of devolution could well be advanced . |
| 16 | She takes a left turn at random and finds herself in an area of derelict buildings , burned out and boarded up , the site , she realizes , of the previous year 's rioting . |
| 17 | But if you were looking at their egos as well , er their whole personality had its defence disrupted , then of course , you may be able to see a bit more , because you are now looking at areas which are co both conscious and manifest themselves in all kinds of different ways . |
| 18 | ‘ You remember : they wear pants and take us out to dinner if we 're very lucky and kick us in the teeth every chance they get . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ A clergyman of the neighbourhood , who was so obliging as to accompany me in this and several other rambles amongst these mountains , formed the wild idea of attempting to climb apparently up the face of the precipice , and I , eager in my pursuit , did not object to the adventure . |
| 20 | ‘ Nevertheless it has to be recognised that there is an unbroken series of dicta in judgments of appellate courts to the effect that there is a judicial discretion to exclude admissible evidence which has been ‘ obtained ’ unfairly or by trickery or oppressively , although except in Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 , there never has been a case in which those courts have come across conduct so unfair , so tricky or so oppressive as to justify them in holding that the discretion ought to have been exercised in favour of exclusion . |
| 21 | In certain circumstances the trial judge might feel that the facts relating to the making of statements such as those made in this case to Mr. O'Hanlon were so unusual as to justify him in directing the prosecution to furnish them to the defence , but this must be a matter within the discretion of the trial judge . |
| 22 | All you need to do is fill in the registration card that comes with your software or peripheral and pop it in the post box . |
| 23 | Erm we have the graduates who we 're training up and they 're not very good and drop us in the mire sometimes . |
| 24 | He had nearly said stupid and stopped himself in time . |
| 25 | Never again would he be so stupid as to embroil himself in something like this . |
| 26 | Love is not the impure self-seeking that chokes everything in its wake . |
| 27 | Then we can return to the problem of persuading the giant to leave us alone and ask who in the drama has those qualities ? |
| 28 | My next move was to persuade Miss Hildegard Fritz-Denneville to be finally independent and join her in partnership as an art dealer , starting a new career . |
| 29 | Avoiding Richard , who got to his feet as soon as he saw something to be carried , she kicked open the top of the Arctic and flung them in golden handfuls onto the glowing bed of fuel . |
| 30 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |