Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 2 | I admire them for being so up front about their religious activity because it puts them right in the front line against anti-Semitism . ’ |
| 3 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The French troops in Saudi Arabia moved up to Hafar al-Batin , some 100 km from the Kuwaiti border , placing them effectively in the front line . |
| 7 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 8 | He did say to me right in the very beginning basically it 's answering the telephone . |
| 9 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 10 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 11 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 12 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 13 | But at that moment , as Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood came back into the house from the stables , all she knew was that , while she still wanted Naylor , she could not let him make love to her — not in his aunt 's and uncle 's house with them only in the next-door room , for all she knew . |
| 14 | ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather . |
| 15 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 16 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 17 | Perhaps they had even bought them together in the same store , on the same day . |
| 18 | Sarah had made a pot of tea and left them together in the overcrowded room . |
| 19 | We would search for the defined pieces and then put them together in the proper order as suggested in the drawing . |
| 20 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 21 | which I could n't find today did I not in the actual end approved version does it not say that I 've got the tape and people fixed |
| 22 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 23 | Why not try and turn your thoughts outwards and see if there is someone else in the same position as yourself — what can you do to help that person feel more comfortable ? |
| 24 | If you can not leave your children with anyone , find someone else in the same position as yourself and take the babies with you . |
| 25 | Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite . |
| 26 | The copycat kings of the world will apply the formula which has benefitted them immensely in the everyday world of trade and commerce to rugby . |
| 27 | All right , I was Marius ’ personal assistant and there 's no reason to assume that Nigel would want to take me over in the same role . |
| 28 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 29 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 30 | An earlier hero , in The Black Prince ( 1973 ) , is a failed writer who creatively fulfils himself only in the enforced loneliness of a prison cell when he is convicted for a murder he has not committed . |