Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 2 | I did n't care to be squashed up in the shelter . |
| 3 | You can also ask for the patient 's meal to be cut up in the kitchen ready to eat , although this is something that can be done when you order the meal . |
| 4 | We are sending you Hurtard our serjeant , to cause oaks to be cut down in the said forest and carried to Winchester against Christmas , for our hearth . |
| 5 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |
| 6 | In this case the defendants , who were manufacturers of electronic components , collected on their land a large number of strips of metal foil , light enough to be blown about in the wind . |
| 7 | The next psychological breakpoint is the 1,000dpi mark which was the point at which digital phototypesetting began to be accepted back in the late 60s and through the 70s . |
| 8 | Previously Venturous had been a noteworthy arrival to be written up in the local press . |
| 9 | The information is all contained in the columns of figures , but the knitting instructions appear on your console , or Form Computer display , rather than having to be written out in the printed pattern . |
| 10 | With a low-start , low-cost with-profits endowment , payments are reduced in the first few years , and the difference has to be made up in the remaining period . |
| 11 | Now one of the tall windows on the front room stands open to the warm evening air , but there is nothing to be made out in the darkness of the room beyond . |
| 12 | There are still wrinkles to be ironed out in the final terms of the merger — though the firms have agreed in principle that the merged company should be owned 50:50 . |
| 13 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 14 | Thursday night in Galway is the night to be seen out in the town : - ) , but I 've still got more than the two brain cells needed to see through your ploy Tim . |
| 15 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 16 | A third defendant , Keith Bunting , 23 , of Ashley Road , Dovercourt , denies using threatening or insulting behaviour and resisting arrest while a fourth , Damon Wait , 17 , of Victoria Road , Dovercourt , agreed to be bound over in the sum of £50 to keep the peace for 12 months . |
| 17 | Ferguson became the first player to be sent off in the six-year reign of Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh . |
| 18 | The 25-year-old will cost around £700,000 and the signing is likely to be pushed through in the next few days in time for the Christmas programme . |
| 19 | Housing was the first of the public sector programmes to be tied back in the 1960s . |
| 20 | Here , almost any topic under the sun was likely to be tossed about in the course of a morning 's talk . |
| 21 | The draft constitution , to be voted on in the April referendum , would reduce the legislature to a single , bicameral body ; specify the supremacy of federal law over that of constituent republics ; and retain the President as " head of state and the highest executive in Russia " . |
| 22 | To straighten the data in figure 11.13 , for example , the curve has to be pulled down in the Y -direction and up in the X -direction ; linearity will therefore probably be improved by raising the Y variable to a power lower down on the ladder and/or by raising the X variable to a power higher up on the ladder . |
| 23 | It is so easy to be caught up in the whirl . |
| 24 | Finally , by the time that the early group of tutors was appointed , there was a strong concern not to be caught up in the academic drift that , we felt , had tugged Ruskin away from its labour movement roots . |
| 25 | ‘ We do n't want to be caught up in the rush when it comes . ’ |
| 26 | Everyone seemed to be caught up in the general euphoria except the bride . |
| 27 | Do n't want to be caught out in the open when Jerry starts up . |
| 28 | Despite the arrival of Pow and Currey ( who filled in for the absent Kolar ) , 'Mere continued to be driven back in the scrums . |
| 29 | VIRGIN supremo Richard Branson is the latest rich and famous identity to be lined up in the sites of photographer Annie Leibovitz on behalf of American Express . |
| 30 | Long freight trains used to be lined up in the Trench Yard awaiting collection by British Rail going East to Stafford and West to Wellington . |