Example sentences of "[vb base] in [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The kind of things that they make may reflect ideas that they encounter in stories , rhymes or visits .
2 Our thoughts are with the circles of family and friends that you have given us , and we pray for those we meet , our neighbours , the people we work with , those we encounter in shops and businesses .
3 The socialisation process pupils encounter in schools therefore involves not only the acquisition of formally defined skills , but also the gaining of many other social skills , such as learning how to live in a group and how to respond to those in authority .
4 This becomes evident if one considers the goods we encounter in terms of some fairly simple criteria .
5 Many birds nest and sleep in hedges and eat insect pests .
6 After the Macleods ' modest grandeur and great hospitality , Raasay House became a hotel , and now the bare boards of the Adventure School thud with young feet ; they sleep in bunks and merry community where Johnson had a room to himself , which , as he told Mrs Thrale , ‘ in eleven rooms to forty people was more than my share ’ .
7 Group members keep up a complicated running commentary of grunts , squeaks and squeals , often huddle up together , and sometimes sleep in heaps .
8 If possible they sleep in cots near the computer . ’
9 Cook in batches until golden .
10 She suggested we try and cook in turns and bring the smaller children to play together in the workshop .
11 ‘ Continuing abysmal ’ describes both , with no signs of the sales slump in cars improving .
12 As bulbs grow in pots , the amount of water needed varies according to the growth of the flowers .
13 The four first grow in quantities on the steep banks of the rivers in Jamaica , and are generally supposed to drop into the water , and to be carried into the sea ; from thence , by tides and currents , and the predominency of the East wind , to he forced through the gulf of Florida , into the North-American ocean , in the same manner as the Saragosso , a plant growing on the rocks of the seas of Jamaica .
14 The four first grow in quantities on the steep banks of the rivers in Jamaica , and are generally supposed to drop into the water , and to be carried into the sea ; from thence , by tides and currents , and the predominency of the East wind , to he forced through the gulf of Florida , into the North-American ocean , in the same manner as the Saragosso , a plant growing on the rocks of the seas of Jamaica .
15 Primroses : These pretty pale yellow flowers grow in woods , hedges , fields and gardens .
16 Lichens , generally prevalent where soils are poor or absent , grow in conditions of aridity , exposure , and abrasion by wind-blown sand and snow that no other plants tolerate ( Lamb , 1970 ; Dodge , 1973 ) .
17 But these trees grow in beds of earth in houses , some twenty , some thirty feet high .
18 The United States manages by and large to unite its culturally and ethnically diverse population with the American dream , and this is still a very strong factor , but this is under increasing strain as the Hispanics grow in numbers and as the ethnic minorities grow in influence .
19 Some grow in clusters like grapes ; some are larger , more elongated and solitary .
20 Bergamot ( Monarda didyma ) is a well-known border flower , which has all sorts of herbal attributes ; the clove pink or gillyflower ( Dianthus caryophyllus ) is the highly scented forerunner of the modern garden pinks and border carnations , and its single-petalled , rosy purple or white flowers grow in clusters late in the summer .
21 They grow in clusters in woods and gardens and there are sometimes so many that they look like one huge blue carpet .
22 Crystals and gems grow in cavities far beneath the earth 's surface , when magma — molten rock from the earth 's hot core — forces its way into cracks in solid rock , such as granite .
23 Peas and beans can be grown in jars , supported by damp paper ; carrot and parsnip tops grow in saucers of water ; onions , potatoes and hyacinths resting on the top of jars of water will send roots down and make top growth ; cuttings such as Busy Lizzie and Tradescantia will produce roots when standing in water .
24 The grass-like leaves grow in clumps , and can be picked outdoors fresh from February to November , longer if given protection .
25 Small shrubs — cranberries Vaccinium vitis-idaea , bilberries , bearberries Arctostaphylos spp. , crowberries , Labrador tea , and arctic heather — grow in patches ; lupins Lupinus arcticus , buttercups Ranunculus lapponicus , windflowers Anemone parviflora and louseworts Pedicularis spp. produce colourful flowers in summer , and several of the shrubs produce bright red leaves and berries in autumn .
26 What 's important for us is that people should move houses , repaint them , put new windows , carpets and curtains in , change cars and fly in aeroplanes .
27 If at any point they lose the scent they fly in zig-zags from side to side until they catch it again , and then fly off upwind again .
28 The increased detection of anti-HEV in adults in our study could reflect a cohort of Turkish residents infected with HEV in the past and a younger generation unexposed to virus , due perhaps to improvements in sanitation .
29 Asking questions such as — what can a particular microcomputer provide in terms of information retrieval or CAL or word processing , can provide the basis for choice .
30 On the main bed , both the YC5 and YC6 colour changers can be used for knitting tuck and slip in stripes and the YC6 can be used for changing the background colour when knitting Fair Isle .
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