Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 2 | Conversion of NO 2 to HNO 3 therefore effectively removes NO x from the atmosphere and thus its potential to lock up chlorine in a nonreactive form . |
| 3 | To find out what potential customers think of Foodbase , we asked Steve to set up stall in a local health food shop . |
| 4 | THE West Country , together with East Anglia , came out top in a recent satisfaction survey by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts . |
| 5 | But because parents bring up girls in a different way to boys in most cultures , women experience life quite differently and so bring a uniquely female perspective to many issues of local as well as global importance . |
| 6 | He prefaced a book called Bringing Up Children In A Difficult Time with a ‘ Statement of an anti-permissive author ’ : ‘ How did I ever get the reputation of being an advocate of excessive permissiveness ? ’ he asked plaintively and disingenuously . |
| 7 | Attempting to run down RoboCop in a disused factory , Emil is immersed in toxic waste and emerges with his flesh dripping off . |
| 8 | I mean if you go down Cornmarket in a normal summer , you can hardly hear anything but erm American voices , so it just shows that there is a vast potential there , but it 's getting them here . |
| 9 | He now took up residence in a small house at South Bank , Regent 's Park , in order , according to one authority , to be near his medical advisers . |
| 10 | Several young couples took up residence in a neighbouring parish at the start of their married lives but returned later to inherit the family property . |
| 11 | Right : Mazda 's modern-styled Approach Light picks up movement in a wide detection zone , and has an economical five minute switch off delay |
| 12 | But now , on the city 's 350th anniversary , after a decade of preparation , the MAC has moved to the city centre , taking up residence in a new C$33 million building on the Place des Arts , the centrally located cultural centre already home to the city 's orchestra , opera and the Grands Ballets Canadiens . |
| 13 | AN Ulster actress was injured during a terrorist shoot out scene in a new TV film , it has been revealed . |
| 14 | The first is that both parties to the contract carry on business in a Contracting State ; the second , that rules of private international law lead to the application of the law of a Contracting State . |
| 15 | It was in a fold of high ground on the northern borders of the vale that William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy had recently taken up residence in a red-brick mansion called Racedown Lodge , a house combining Georgian elegance and merchant stolidity , and quite likely to be , as tradition asserts , the original of Sir Walter Elliot 's Kellynch Hall in Jane Austen 's Persuasion . |
| 16 | THE FBI HAS taken out advertisements in a Russian-language newspaper in New York in an effort to entice spies and counterintelligence agents living among Soviet emigres in the United States to defect . |
| 17 | She edged out Hatoof in a tight finish to the Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp on Arc day and holds Central City — also in today 's Newbury field — on earlier running in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot , when the pair were second and third to another unbeaten filly , Marling . |
| 18 | Coventry , flying high , take on Spurs in a live TV game tomorrow night at Highfield Road . |
| 19 | In addition , our study is the first to present longterm follow up data in a large number of constipated children ≤4 years of age . |
| 20 | When people move house to take up residence in a new community they are likely to be more open to change in other areas of their life . |
| 21 | Arrangements were made for the deceased to take up residence in a residential home for the elderly known as Samuel Saye House , owned and managed by a Mr. and Mrs. Tinker . |
| 22 | The HNC in CAE is designed to provide potential Technicians/Technician Engineers with the skills necessary to enable them to take up employment in a multi-disciplinary engineering environment . |
| 23 | Paradoxically however the demand for better films saw the American film industry move away from its natural habitat and take up residence in a suburban section of what was essentially a southern Californian oasis . |
| 24 | If the market-maker of one dealer wanted to take back shares in a specific USM stock in order to balance his books , he would scribble " bid only " over any quote slip the runner would present him on behalf of a dealer . |
| 25 | With so many weapons to hand , some cancel out others in a tangled web of incentives and disincentives . |
| 26 | It was during this period that a young buyer for Adidas based in Liverpool ( but originally from Yorkshire ) set up shop in a small back-street in Liverpool City Centre . |
| 27 | In their second year , Robyn and Charles moved off campus and set up house in a small flat in Brighton , commuting to the University by local train . |
| 28 | Anyway , the Tallentires never gave up their music because when Grandfather Tallentire set up house in a little farm called Northside he went to buy an organ but took a fancy to a piano and came back with that instead . |
| 29 | It is finding that the phrase ‘ equal opportunity ’ is usually a meaningless compromise ; if the good things of life are really dependent on opportunity — which everyone knows they are not ; would the rich and powerful really be so careless ? — what human agency has the hubris to imagine it can deal out opportunity in a fair or even meritorious fashion ? |