Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia saw no point in butting in to comment that she had in fact come very close to doing that very thing , and after a few moments ' pause Ven went on , ‘ I knew I 'd bruised your pride , but that had been necessary when my desire for you had threatened to blot out reason . |
| 2 | Somewhere in this range , too , are those coincidences that give us an eerie spine-tingling feeling , like dreaming of a particular person for the first time in decades , then waking up to find that they died in the night . |
| 3 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 4 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 5 | But unfortunately the parting of the ways had to come and I worked in another wee shop er down in Albert Street in Leith . |
| 6 | Different species often do not get a chance to interbreed because they live in different geographic areas , or in different localities within an area ( one species at the tops of trees , the other on the ground , for example ) , or they might be active at different times of day . |
| 7 | It 's important to work when you feel in the mood . ’ |
| 8 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 9 | Only the doctor who attended the last illness is required to certify when someone dies in the hospital and a post mortem has been carried out and the results known to the doctor . |
| 10 | He was one of the first people to see that what matters in heredity is a flow not of matter or energy but of information . |
| 11 | While waiting for medicine to cure idiots , I have undertaken to see that they participate in the benefit of education . |
| 12 | ‘ How refreshing to see that you believe in fostering good relations between management and staff , ’ he drawled lazily . |
| 13 | Such patients often differ only in the time taken to reach hospital , and to claim that they differ in any more fundamental way is pure sophistry . |
| 14 | And it is fatuous for Mr Paddy Ashdown to claim that he stands in readiness to preserve our democracy with a more moderate alternative to Labour . |
| 15 | Might the assailant be able to claim that he acted in self-defence ? 4 . |
| 16 | When confronted with Plymouth Brethren or other sects at the door , my major defence ploy was to claim that I lived in a ‘ Quaker house ’ . |
| 17 | Then , by what actually occurs , you will be able to confirm that you have in fact turned in the right direction to reach your track . |
| 18 | If the price of gold continues to rise over the coming months , bankers will have even more reason to sell than they did in the past . |
| 19 | We are more likely to conform if we believe in the rules and constraints that conformity imposes upon us . |
| 20 | ( This belligerent insistence on Washington 's right to behave as it chose in the interests of US ‘ security ’ must have aggravated Cuban fears . ) |
| 21 | I think the way we behave tells the other residents how we react when someone dies ; and so it 's almost like they 're watching us to see if we behave in a way they would want us to . ’ |
| 22 | Carrying hot metal , or tripping blindfold between red-hot plough shares , or plunging the arm in boiling water were the usual tests , though the accused might be flung into a pond to see whether he sank or not , or forced to eat an ounce of bread or cheese to see if it stuck in the gullet ! |
| 23 | In 1777 , however , he was packed off to India again , this time to Calcutta , where , with the exception of an interval of two years in London managing a parliamentary petition , he was to remain until he retired in 1808 . |
| 24 | Two points about Dunleavy 's framework can usefully be raised : ( a ) He tends to assume that what applies in the case of high-rise flats or town-centre redevelopment applies in other areas of policy-making ; ( b ) He places a heavy emphasis on the nationalizing of urban policy change , arguing ( 1980a , p. 98 ) that within ‘ broad limits the decentralised authorities implementing policies have moved in step with a precision that cries out for explanation ’ . |
| 25 | Until the last few years , the thought that one might have microscopic techniques sensitive enough to actually see tiny changes in the structure of neurons and their synapses as a result of learning seemed improbable — to start with , one would need to have a very good idea where to look and what to measure in the brain . |
| 26 | He raised the knife to stab and she succeeded in knocking it away . |
| 27 | It 's chip resistant , it 's easy to apply and it comes in a choice of twelve brilliant shades . |
| 28 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 29 | Well , he now has his stepmother to thank for the beautiful house that has been restored to look as it did in the 18th century . |
| 30 | She still wanted to look as she did in waking life , but there were improvements she could make . |