Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 2 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 3 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 4 | ‘ None of them was prepared to take you on in the middle of the semester . |
| 5 | It 's almost impossible to put him down in the tackle , and there are few players about who you an say that . |
| 6 | They all bugger themselves up in the end . |
| 7 | The top 2 go up ; the next 4 fight it out in the play-offs . |
| 8 | First two go up ; next 4 fight it out in the play-offs . |
| 9 | Its defenders have certainly been reluctant to give it up in the face of criticisms , for fear that ‘ without it , the macro-economists would be adrift in a sea of unorganized data ’ ( Samuelson and Nordhaus 1985 ) . |
| 10 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 11 | ‘ Who in hell 's name are you ? ’ he asked amiably , still unable to make her out in the thick shade of an ivy-infested oak . |
| 12 | so if you doing that , doing that keep you up in the air , right , keep doing that you 'll go that way , when the helicopter 's you want to do that way , so obviously |
| 13 | The stock car racing proved to be a huge success with the top nine fighting it out in the final . |
| 14 | It was fucking gobble you off in the kitchen with me parents upstairs and stuff like that . |
| 15 | You two drag him back in the cabin and keep your eyes on him . |
| 16 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 17 | On second thoughts I think it best to put it back in the old oak chest . |
| 18 | However , one thing that is certain to hold you back in the learning process is a fear of breaking the model and you must conquer this or try something else . |
| 19 | At CPFNS headquarters near the Nicosia Hilton , a cupboardful of expensive audio and video equipment paid for by the UN Fund for Drug Abuse Control was gathering dust and Hurley was anxious to get it out in the field , even though wiretaps were strictly illegal in Cyprus . |
| 20 | The top two go up , the next four fight it out in the play-offs . |
| 21 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |