Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 2 | ( It would be advisable to make a copy of this and keep it in the ‘ Record of Achievement ’ as insurance against loss of the original . ) |
| 3 | In the end George ate all of his , but Libby faithfully saved a few and wrapped them in a paper bag . |
| 4 | Nevertheless the constructive work of Communists in the Blitz and the war factories kept the Party alive and put it in a good position to exploit the opportunities for expansion that followed Hitler 's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 . |
| 5 | The parson there , the chapel parson , he went there ; and it just lifted the roof off the chapel like that and killed him in the pulpit , blew in the wall . |
| 6 | They quickly saw that and had me in the theatre the next day . |
| 7 | If you need to keep them longer , rinse and pat dry and store them in a sealable container in the fridge . |
| 8 | They will need staking and tying to prevent damage from wind and when finished , lift , dry and store them in a frost-free shed for replanting the following year . |
| 9 | ‘ So , ’ Nathan pulled the towel from his shoulder and tossed it aside , ‘ after you 've tidied the galley , wipe the oilskins dry and hang them in the locker . |
| 10 | If the SNP manages to overcome its bitterness towards Labour and join it in a united push for change , the cause of devolution could well be advanced . |
| 11 | She takes a left turn at random and finds herself in an area of derelict buildings , burned out and boarded up , the site , she realizes , of the previous year 's rioting . |
| 12 | Use a trowel to scoop up some of these and put them in a plastic bag . |
| 13 | Cut these and put them in a nice vase . |
| 14 | ‘ You remember : they wear pants and take us out to dinner if we 're very lucky and kick us in the teeth every chance they get . ’ |
| 15 | Women prisoners in Armagh had political status until 1975 but lost it in the following year and the numbers in Armagh rose dramatically during the late seventies . |
| 16 | Mr Rooker , MP for Perry Barr in Birmingham , discovered the existence of the POWs Fund in 1976 and publicised it in the Midlands . |
| 17 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 18 | Get them all and meet me in the Operations Room . |
| 19 | All you need to do is fill in the registration card that comes with your software or peripheral and pop it in the post box . |
| 20 | Erm we have the graduates who we 're training up and they 're not very good and drop us in the mire sometimes . |
| 21 | mm , I shall er get the other lot in and do that , do that first thing in the morning , get every thing cleared up , and then if you give me your pull overs , I can hand wash those and put them in the spin drier so you 'd better sort them out do you think you 'd of put some tassels in that pelmet ? , you know where the I 've got some spare one 's no , do n't you remember I went into and he gave me a piece of the trimming and I can take the tassels off |
| 22 | Then we can return to the problem of persuading the giant to leave us alone and ask who in the drama has those qualities ? |
| 23 | Oh better take that biscuit tin away before they eat the lot , got that lid , get that and put , have one more and get it in the kitchen Charlotte |
| 24 | Winchelsey learnt of this bull in December 1296 and published it in the assembly of January 1297 , called to consider the royal demand made in November on which they had deferred a decision . |
| 25 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 26 | ‘ We must tread carefully , because my postbag suggests that allegations of rape can arise from previously non-sexual relationships , where the man goes too far and persuades himself in the passion of a moment that ‘ No ’ means ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ I have work to attend to , Master Corbett The inn-keeper 's body has been coffined and has now to be churched before the villagers become too drunk and dump him in the pond . ’ |
| 28 | But they always gave me the choice first and put me in a dilemma , though I did n't know the meaning of the word then . |
| 29 | Clean the gunge that is probably beneath these brushes , rub everything clean and return them in the right order . |
| 30 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |