Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 2 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 3 | The florist came up earlier but she was asleep , and he did n't even come into the room , just put his head round the door and left her some flowers ; the night nurse has put them out in the corridor . |
| 4 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 5 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 6 | I remembered — I 'd stuffed it back in the envelope with my dreams . |
| 7 | Look put it back in the box otherwise there |
| 8 | Both at home and at school they usually have to remain on the floor and Alice does n't always remember to put them back in the bag . |
| 9 | It 's not going to press you back in the seat on acceleration or break any speed records , but it 's far from sluggish — a 119mph top speed , in fact , and 0–62mph in 12.8 seconds . |
| 10 | If not I 've only got to put them up in the attic and bring them down in three month 's time . |
| 11 | No afterwards she 's going to switch it on in the common room . |
| 12 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 13 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |
| 14 | They were a motley collection — these remnants of her mother 's past , she thought , as she began to put them back in the envelope . |
| 15 | Then he bent down and began to roll her up in the hearth rug . |
| 16 | Or he could have flown it around in the wastes of ice where Shackleton lost the Endurance . |
| 17 | His young rider , ‘ Wendy ’ , saddled him up , and started to trot him around in the practice ring with a number of other horses . |
| 18 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 19 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 20 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 21 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 22 | Though I shall have to keep it on in the summer to keep er |
| 23 | We should have stuck it out in the taxi . ’ |
| 24 | Someone once said he 'd have known me anywhere by the voice but he 'd have passed me by in the street on account I look much better in person than I do on the telly . |
| 25 | That would have put him back in the situation of January 1946 — forced to swallow hard decisions in domestic and foreign policy without the long-term mandate to govern in the manner that he saw fit . |
| 26 | I 'll have to dab it off in the Ladies . ’ |
| 27 | If Nodform Wonder is in anything like the form he was at Wetherby on Friday , he will laugh off the six pound penalty that is intended to slow him down in the Levy Board Handicap Hurdle at Kelso . |
| 28 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | He 'd tried to study it back in the Store . |
| 30 | I bet they do put it out in the |