Example sentences of "[prep] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mebbe that 's what they were after in the first place . |
| 2 | Now and then , waiters would serve us refreshing drinks from the bar and while we were busy unwinding , we were happy to know that the children were being well looked after in the Children 's Club . |
| 3 | Now Wedgwood generously agreed to waive the buy-back clause in return for a series of covenants ensuring that the house would be restored and looked after in the future . |
| 4 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 5 | It is clearly undesirable and often more expensive to admit or keep in district general hospitals or long stay hospitals old or mentally ill or mentally handicapped people who could be properly looked after in the community . |
| 6 | This may be appropriate , not only because hospital beds are usually expensive but also because most people prefer to be looked after in the community . |
| 7 | Although the qualification was very much sought after in the beginning with the burgeoning of more centres running it up and down the country , the trainees soon realised that in spite of the skills they gained , the diploma was not recognised by the DES even as a first stage towards further accreditation . |
| 8 | … John and I , flattered at first by the sweet smell of success , had to get out of it , into another language , forgotten in the House of Fame but happy ever after in the House of Fiction . |
| 9 | Fabrics are expensive , but they will last for years and give great pleasure provided they are looked after in the proper manner . |
| 10 | They do live happily ever after in the end . |
| 11 | For most mentally-ill people are being looked after in the community anyway , by relatives and friends who can not bring themselves to have the people they love locked away . |
| 12 | People in the street are asked to prepare for an influx of refugees who will be looked after in the local church hall . |
| 13 | He would prefer not to come back on to my patch , and he has his own investments to look after in the City . |
| 14 | Obviously it is sad to part with such a fine piece of craftsmanship , but it will be appreciated and well-looked after in the National Museums of Scotland , as one of the major items in the important spinning-wheel collections . |
| 15 | What there 's a handbook that he 's after in the bookshop . |
| 16 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 17 | To take one 's finger off the bounding narrative pulse of Crime and Punishment and to open The Possessed — to open it anywhere — is to find oneself out in the sticks once again : the ‘ our town ’ of the novel and the voice relating its affairs bring back the ‘ we ’ of convict life in The House of the Dead and the more sketchy collective of that remote Siberian community outside the prison walls . |
| 18 | It was a very difficult period in my career , and the problem with the transfer was that everything was done out in the open . |
| 19 | in the far North out in the |
| 20 | A split appears to be spoken of in the conversation from which I have just quoted : formed by the past , he is also deformed by it . |
| 21 | The British reader , who is likely to have been spared certain of the varieties of suffering which are spoken of in the writings of Kundera and Klima , where a joke , or no joke , or nothing whatever , can sequester you for years from the people you grew up with , is in a position , for all that , to know what Sabina means here . |
| 22 | Photographs of the squad taken in the early 1970s still evoke surprise in police circles , simply because they display such strong imagery of an unacceptable style , and at the time were made much of in the media , who saw the newsworthy potential of policemen in a disorderly form . |
| 23 | X died in March , but it was close enough for the connection that Eliot wrote of in The Waste Land : |
| 24 | INSPIRATION may not spring readily from the prosaic-sounding north Midlands town of Southwell but it is the black stuff that dreams are made of in the eyes of Ron and Richard Muddle , the father and son team of racing entrepreneurs extraordinary . |
| 25 | The talk drifted away to food , shortages of in the G.D.R . |
| 26 | I also recall that at least on one or two occasions , he 'd dyed his hair which was almost unheard of in the early 60's . |
| 27 | I am like the leaves and flowers of ikebana , with roots cut off , stuck in a spiked metal holder ( kenzan ) instead of in the earth . |
| 28 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 29 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 30 | Use of the wrong half-life is automatically taken care of in the calibration of a conventionally calculated date . |