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 | In one house , on the corner , there was a light on in the front bedroom . |
| 4 | The baker and the newsagent were open and there was a light on in the Carabinieri station that stood between them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " They 're always like that , gassing their heads off in a public shop . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | mm , did you take that tape out in the other room ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She set all the animals out in a long line , headed by the lions ; a circus parade carved from wood and delicately coloured . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Taras dies but his prophesy lives on in a resplendent welter of organ ( now assertively prominent ) , chiming timpani and bells . |
| 17 | Well , there was talk about er getting the old hall down in the old street community centre , not the , the |
| 18 | His enigmatic features gaze down in every public place of assembly . |
| 19 | These specialised workers , known to entomologists as repletes , never leave the nest but inhabit galleries six feet down in the red earth . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I believe the young , young lady over in the other side , really told the truth , more of the truth than perhaps anyone else she said she liked it . |
| 22 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 23 | The other frustration of watching on TV is hearing the low rumble of chatter , unexplained laughter , heckles and shouts , like the noises off in a Russian drama , but being unable to see the source . |
| 24 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 25 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 26 | Erm now in my wisdom I I thought that obviously considering we 're now classed as incident stewards the o the thing to do was to put the certificates up in a prominent place so that everybody who visited the site knew who were the incident stewards were . |
| 27 | Dugard , who has been an international for five years , lines up in an experimental team against an Australian side weakened by injury . |
| 28 | It is not a good idea to keep fountains running in the cold months , because they exert a chilling effect and , of course , the jets in the nozzles will be the first to ice up in a frosty snap . |
| 29 | So much so , that he 's taken an ad out in the local paper . |
| 30 | The young duo will also have a run out in an arranged match behind closed doors against Cambridge United at Layer Road on Monday . |