Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was paralysed from the chest down in an abseiling accident 12 years ago and has championed fund raising for research into the treatment of orthopaedic patients . |
| 2 | For statistics alone are unlikely to stop a 17-year-old putting his foot down in a lethal weapon . |
| 3 | To get into the medieval way of things and because it 's cheap , we all camp down in the same room hence this is not a society for the bashful ( light sleepers are advised ear plugs ) . |
| 4 | In one house , on the corner , there was a light on in the front bedroom . |
| 5 | The baker and the newsagent were open and there was a light on in the Carabinieri station that stood between them . |
| 6 | She went down to make a drink , and as she turned the light on in the dingy kitchen a dark thing shot across the floor to disappear under the dresser . |
| 7 | All they could do now was to turn Moat Hall upside down in the forlorn hope something remained in the near-derelict place to hint at its erstwhile owner 's present refuge . |
| 8 | Before we leave erm seventeen fours erm sheet , the there was a question I 'd have , I think it 's probably addressed to Graham rather than anything , nothing personal about this , er , the actual state of equivalent in the month , the third figure down in the last box |
| 9 | To get all the silly voices over in the same day Johnnie Walker will be presenting his morning programme on Radio 5 from there on Thursday . |
| 10 | " They 're always like that , gassing their heads off in a public shop . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We 've just got to get our heads up in the second half of the season and go all out to qualify for Europe again . ’ |
| 13 | Villa had their tails up in the second half and Atkinson and Staunton both had chances to increase their lead . |
| 14 | She finishes what she is doing , gives herself a resolute shake and lets the sea breeze dry her , rises slowly , pulls her dark blue tights up in an unhurried manner , and adjusts her skirt . |
| 15 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |
| 16 | As your journey takes you into the lush splendour of the Dee Valley , one landmark in particular stands out in a dazzling blaze of colour . |
| 17 | He knocked Corbett out in the fourteenth round at Carson City , Nevada , in 1897 , with what has been described as the most famous single punch in the history of boxing . |
| 18 | mm , did you take that tape out in the other room ? |
| 19 | If Jitters did n't have a wife and kids back in the old country — which , come to think of it , he probably did n't these days — he might just have dragged Fat Old Stinky Juanita up before the padre and tied the old knot . |
| 20 | Together , the pair devised a series of three-year plans — the first was to put the club back in the first division , the second to get the club established in the top third of the table . |
| 21 | Neuron Data Inc , Palo Alto , California , will have a version of its Open Interface graphical user interface builder for Univel Inc 's UnixWare out in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 22 | The CBI rejects warnings that companies will hide behind the new anti-hacking laws , rather than make efforts to keep intruders out in the first place . |
| 23 | She set all the animals out in a long line , headed by the lions ; a circus parade carved from wood and delicately coloured . |
| 24 | Ben clenched his teeth then pulled hard on the right-hand oar , turning the prow slowly towards the distant house , the dark , slick-edged blade biting deep into the glaucous , muscular flow as he hauled the boat about in a tight arc . |
| 25 | Obediently , resignedly , he swings the car round in a dangerous U-turn at the next intersection and they flash back towards the airport , the jewel factories and towerblocks of the Bangkok suburbs thinning out again to the dim outlines of swampy fields pierced by palmtree plantations . |
| 26 | Taras dies but his prophesy lives on in a resplendent welter of organ ( now assertively prominent ) , chiming timpani and bells . |
| 27 | Well , there was talk about er getting the old hall down in the old street community centre , not the , the |
| 28 | His enigmatic features gaze down in every public place of assembly . |
| 29 | These specialised workers , known to entomologists as repletes , never leave the nest but inhabit galleries six feet down in the red earth . |
| 30 | Yet one of the sights I treasure most in my memory is of a French river in the Cévennes where black-veined whites in their hundreds were floating among falling poplar down in the dappled sunlight . |