Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 2 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 3 | ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather . |
| 4 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 6 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 8 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 9 | The secret is to use them to create a striking feature , and not just hide them away in a shady corner of the garden . |
| 10 | Oh yes , I was told , providing we did n't mind tucking ourselves away in a converted cow shed . |
| 11 | The last two goals are the most important , and we shall consider them further in the following sections . |
| 12 | SIR — After watching the England soccer team 's drab display in Prague , I am tempted to say that if the FA send them out in a nondescript kit , their performance will mirror their appearance . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 14 | ‘ Expect me back in a few minutes , ’ she heard him say distantly . |
| 15 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 16 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 17 | I was sure that his status as head of the herd helped me out in an unpleasant encounter . |
| 18 | Between the subtle observations of the period of about 270–240 B.C. and the adulation of poems like that by Melinno — which , though undated , places itself naturally in the early second century — we have to recognize a gap . |
| 19 | It only remained to write everything up in a comprehensive report . |
| 20 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 21 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 22 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 23 | Not so , says Mr Crust : ‘ Even in this environment , if your house is alight you want a fireman there and you want him there in a reasonable length of time . ’ |
| 24 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 25 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 26 | The miniature St Christopher on it had a brief treat before Sorrel cooled him off in no uncertain terms . |
| 27 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 28 | He left a Will which places him firmly in the central Anglican tradition : |
| 29 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 30 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |