Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much later , in the eighteenth century , the Spanish artist Goya shows a caged owl being swooped upon by two free-flying birds , while a small caged bird sits nervously in front of it . |
| 2 | Near Bering Strait the small inflow of Pacific water circulates locally in the pycnocline layer . |
| 3 | In one case the opinion was expressed that the foreign affairs powers of the President are extra-constitutional , resting upon the international sovereign status of the United States and the necessity for that country to be able to perform effectively in foreign relations , uninhibited by domestic legal restrictions . |
| 4 | He had travelled widely in America on behalf of peaceful arbitration of international disputes and in 1893 had persuaded the Commons to resolve in favour of an Anglo-American Treaty of Arbitration . |
| 5 | Both travelled widely in their search for new specimen plants and , on their sojourns , amassed an amazing collection of ethnographical curios and shells which they housed at Lambeth in a room known as ‘ The Ark ’ . |
| 6 | The author , an American journalist , has travelled widely in the Balkans , and has lived in Greece . |
| 7 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 8 | One would think that an old person would have to be living in an isolated cottage , in the heart of the countryside , to be so out of touch with the world ; but sadly we know from the frequent reports in the newspapers that such tragic loneliness can exist right in the heart of our towns and cities , and that the old have sometimes remained undiscovered for weeks and months after they have died in their own homes . |
| 9 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 10 | With the four terms of the Sylvester expansion now given numerically in ( 2 ) , ( 3 ) , ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) , the whole solution can be expressed compendiously as |
| 11 | What we concentrate on in Britain , is earth observation . |
| 12 | It was not a historical accident that the sports in which blacks were overrepresented compared to their proportion in the general population were those demanding little in the way of equipment or facilities . |
| 13 | Only in rats subjected to stress did bFGF ( given subcutaneously in a large dose ) cause a small but significant attenuation of the mucosal lesions and this was accompanied by increased gastric blood flow suggesting that the maintenance of gastric circulation in stressed rats could explain this protection . |
| 14 | This study shows that the long acting somatostatin analogue SMS 201–995 given subcutaneously in a dose of 25 µg three times daily can abolish hypergastrinaemia induced by five days ' treatment with omeprazole ( 40 mg once daily in man . |
| 15 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 16 | The men worked hard and as you got on in life you just thought this was home , although you had n't the luxuries . |
| 17 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 18 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 19 | While the masses and nomenklatura flocked in their hundreds of thousands to Glazunov 's exhibitions and he lived lavishly in Moscow , he ably kept going a parallel reputation for dissidence : ‘ [ He ] has been a lifetime opponent of Soviet authority , and his art has always defied the politics and prejudices of his time ’ . |
| 20 | Even the feeblest message of support from the British Young Socialists ( not of course from the Labour Party executive ) was cheered widely in Tiananmen Square . |
| 21 | Other triterpenoids such as oleanolic acid ( 2 ) 4 ( Calendula ) , ursolic acid ( 3 ) 5 ( Psychotria adenophylla ) , taxaxerol ( 4 ) 5 ( Taraxacum officinale ) , lupeol acetate ( 5 ) 5 ( Spilanthes ocymifolia ) and sericic acid and it glycoside sericoside ( 6 ) 6 ( Terminalia sericea ) have antiulcer properties but these compounds have not been developed commercially in the West . |
| 22 | It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens . |
| 23 | We live on the fourth floor of one building , in what , by Chinese standards , are luxurious conditions : we each have our own bedroom , living room , and bathroom , with drinking water , cigarettes , and thermos flasks of hot water ( for making Chinese tea ) laid on in the living room . |
| 24 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 25 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 26 | She was small and dark , with rimless spectacles , and became matronly in middle age . |
| 27 | Shadows have lengthened stealthily in the course of The Bellarosa Connection , gathering for what Martin Amis described in later Bellow as ‘ last things , leave-taking , and final lucidities ’ , and at the close there is a quietly affecting image of the narrator setting down his story , alone . |
| 28 | FoE 's local branch had paid £2,000 for a stretch of disused railway land , which it then sold on in square-metre plots to 1,700 supporters . |
| 29 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 30 | Well nobody can see if you sit right in front of it , can they ? |