Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 2 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 3 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 4 | Pictured right is a saffron-gatherer whose image , painted on to a wall in Thera ( now Santorini ) in the first century BC , was preserved under ash even as the volcano which produced it was destroying civilisation on the island . |
| 5 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 6 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 7 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 8 | The cases are due to be heard together before a judge in London without a jury , in January . |
| 9 | In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy . |
| 10 | That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it . |
| 11 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 12 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 13 | And the reason for those is the iron in the blood is being oxidized by various substances in the body , it 's being broken down into a form in which the body can reabsorb that iron , and during the process you go through all these colour changes because of the different forms of iron oxide being produced . |
| 14 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 15 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |
| 16 | Again she felt overwhelmed with fatigue , but sly , lecherous images slunk into her mind , like a guilty dog sneaking in after a roll in something bad . |
| 17 | One sequence , filmed in Maidenhead , showed Crawford , dressed up in a fireman 's uniform , peddling furiously on a bike in an attempt to catch up with the engine . |
| 18 | Her hips moved slowly to a beat in the music only she seemed to hear . |
| 19 | The additional diabatic cooling occurred predominantly through a decrease in solar absorption by ozone . |
| 20 | If you touched a picture , there was a brief humming noise and then the food dropped on to a tray in a slot . |
| 21 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 22 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 23 | In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper . |
| 24 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 25 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 26 | If the organizer calls ‘ submarines ’ everyone lies down with a leg in the air . |
| 27 | Scotland Yard said shots were fired at anti-terrorist squad detectives and a tactical firearms unit as they moved in on a house in Stoke Newington , north London . |
| 28 | The barn owl can swoop down on a mouse in total darkness , guided only by a faint rustle in the undergrowth . |
| 29 | I have been passive , carried along like a twig in a torrent . |
| 30 | More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence . |