Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The withdrawal of these pioneers from the scene need not have been bad news for the industry ; few American production outfits made the transition to new times and Méliès failed to keep up in France . |
| 2 | As part of the deal Mr de Ferranti agreed to stand down in favour of Sir Derek and to allow James Guerin , International Signal 's founder , to come on to the board as deputy chairman . |
| 3 | Another exciting window on the mind seemed to open up in Chicago in the 1950s when Nathaniel Kleitman and Bill Dement began using the techniques of electroencephalography to investigate sleep . |
| 4 | A light seems to go on in Lucker 's head . |
| 5 | We met , for instance , in one or other of the hotel bars that attract delegates of an evening , two commissioning editors we could spend months trying to reach back in London , the assembled ranks of the UK media ( usually bemoaning the lack of good gossip pieces ) and various other useful types who , post-event , look like providing some unexpected sales and coproduction outlets . |
| 6 | To visit his people Ramsey had to go up in lifts . |
| 7 | Champion Nigel looking to bow out in style |
| 8 | When all this has been said , it is still very difficult to see how the Divisional Court in R. v. LTE ex parte GLC managed to come down in favour of the GLC in the face of the unanimous decision of the Law Lords . |
| 9 | Sadly , so many dogs seem to end up in classes run by loud , aggressive people , where they are yanked cruelly on choke chains and punished physically if they do n't do as they 're told . |
| 10 | Outside their refuge the rain began to come down in earnest . |
| 11 | Gulliver wanted to step down in August because of business commitments but was asked to carry on by chairman Wallace Mercer until the club had made a decision about a new stadium . |
| 12 | As Mrs Bullivant , carrying her bag of instruments , mounted the stairs , Nelly 's Mum began to cry out in agony . |
| 13 | Fleetlands ’ well-drilled defence gave them the edge , supported by a midfield prepared to drop back in numbers . |
| 14 | That self-confidence had been acquired from the success of The Cocktail Party : it had opened in London in May 1950 , just a few months after the New York opening , and , although the audiences began to fall off in November , Sherek did not feel it necessary to close the play until February 1951 . |
| 15 | Private Enterprise THE UNORTHODOX GREEK Why does a European middle manager choose to set up in business in Britain ? |
| 16 | Videopics has received inquiries from people hoping to set up in shopping centres and tourist spots , but is keen to stress the potential of running a franchise from home . |
| 17 | In this case the soil tends to come off in flakes . |
| 18 | Rather than contemplate the real world , Mr Pick prefers to bustle off in pursuit of symbols that have little to do with war itself , like the Channel tunnel , or the Nazi Holocaust , or time-and-motion studies in industry . |
| 19 | THE arms-to-Iraq affair threatened to blow up in John Major 's face yesterday . |
| 20 | During the practice , Prost had been impressed by both the McLaren and the Williams and his worst fears were confirmed as Senna pulled inexorably away and the multi-coloured Williams of Nigel Mansell began to move about in Prost 's mirrors . |
| 21 | As the Soviet Union began to break up in August 1991 , Wang led China 's hardline brigade , travelling to the troubled border region of Xinjiang , which he had ruled as military commander four decades before , to demand socialist unity and issue veiled warnings against unrest . |
| 22 | Puritanical Lord Reith was in love with another man throughout most of his adult life , Daphne du Maurier was a lesbian , J Edgar Hoover liked to dress up in women 's clothes . |
| 23 | A Brighton-based boxer , Eubank is a middleweight world title contender the boxing critics love to beat up in print . |
| 24 | He had the right mixture of politics and economics , cleverly interwoven with deadly figures and Government pledges to throw back in Norman Lamont 's face . |
| 25 | TV star Joe Longthorne failed to turn up in court yesterday because it was Friday the 13th . |
| 26 | Er , that 's assuming the employer wants to pass on in pay , the rewards of adding value . |
| 27 | Some a lot of you said yesterday that you do n't always get in this formal situation having to stand up in front of people . |
| 28 | So Harris decided to go out in style . |
| 29 | It was presumably real gold , yet it somehow contrived to look brash and cheap , like junk jewellery trying to make up in flash what it lacked in value . |
| 30 | EIGA reckons its plan will appeal to UK and European businesses ranging from hoteliers trying to set up in Moscow to oil giants eyeing the vast energy resources of Kazakhsthan . |