Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one house , on the corner , there was a light on in the front bedroom . |
| 2 | The baker and the newsagent were open and there was a light on in the Carabinieri station that stood between them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 6 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 7 | I played that on almost every album back in the early days ; it 's a black one and it 's a beautiful guitar . ’ |
| 8 | mm , did you take that tape out in the other room ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well , there was talk about er getting the old hall down in the old street community centre , not the , the |
| 11 | These specialised workers , known to entomologists as repletes , never leave the nest but inhabit galleries six feet down in the red earth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 16 | He had a finger in several pies as well ( which Moroccan has n't ? ) but he also had a dream — of doing something with visitors up in the unknown peaks above Taroudant . |
| 17 | 16,000ft up in the Bolivian Andes the miners of the Cerro Rico chew coca leaves , they 're preparing for another day in the tin mines . |
| 18 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 19 | The 29-year-old Blaydon Harrier lines up in the international women 's road mile with Dorovskikh , the Ukranian who took the 3,000 metres title ahead of Yvonne Murray in Tokyo last summer and also finished second in the 1500 metres . |
| 20 | So much so , that he 's taken an ad out in the local paper . |
| 21 | What is required is an experiment in which , after non-reinforced exposure in one context and conditioning in a different context , the subjects are tested with the target stimulus back in the original context . |
| 22 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 23 | The structure of any model of the type described above can be captured in the general formulation where is all the autonomous elements and collects together all the coefficients on in the specified model ; i.e. , in the case presented above . |
| 24 | I 've informed him that we 'll be taking the place over in the near future , but not why , naturally . ’ |
| 25 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 26 | Eleanor Thorne half-sat up in the great bed , astonished at the freshness , the absolute appeal of her idea . |
| 27 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 28 | Okay so we are , w w we 're now in a position of , certainly by nineteen forty nine we 're , we 're on the verge of power , we want l we , land reform is not taking place any more , there are still some areas in the north it has n't taken place out in the far north west it has n't taken place , so we , we , we are going to need a new land reform document based on all the experience we 've got which will carry us through and , and it 's really that land reform document , document that we are going to implement for the whole of China , and it 's going to be that document which really is going to abolish feudalism and create some sort of equality . |
| 29 | The professionals found it a tough test , with Wirral 's Andy Mitchell returning the only sub par round in the 36-hole event . |
| 30 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |