Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to wear my hair up in a knot but Elise said you 'd prefer it loose like this . ’ |
| 2 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 3 | But you who knew me , pass on these words : that I squandered my youth for my country , that while the ship was fighting I kept to my post up in the cross trees and , when she sank-I went down with her . ’ ’ |
| 4 | I like having my head down in a border listening to conversations as visitors go past . |
| 5 | I should yawn my head off in a palace , and I should laugh during the most solemn ceremonies , and I should certainly beat my Ministers . |
| 6 | ‘ Now I 've got five stitches and there 's a one-inch larva covered in spines preserved in a jar with my name on in the hospital . |
| 7 | I was splitting my hand up in the end cos they were gone . |
| 8 | I might have held my end up in a brawl with a three year old kid , if the kid was n't feeling too good either . |
| 9 | I can find my way up in the dark , or fetch a candle from the kitchen cupboard for myself . |
| 10 | Let's just say I can find my way about in the language . |
| 11 | What else did I have to support my family on in the West ? |
| 12 | I was forced to have it because I smashed my face up in an accident |
| 13 | Some sport Gazza crops , while others lost their hair back in the mists of time . |
| 14 | It just annoys me , the way they do n't tie their hair back in the coffee shop . |
| 15 | It was at that precise moment the killer pack picked up their trail back in the woods , having arrived hotfoot in answer to the summons of the ultrasonic whistle . |
| 16 | Jenna changed into a soft woollen dress of dark blue and tied her hair back in a band . |
| 17 | Her eyes unfocused , her mind back in the past , she continued softly , reminiscently , ‘ It was after the war , you see , and women had become used to working , being independent , and jobs they 'd held down while their men were away fighting they were n't about to give up easily . |
| 18 | This morning , Mum had her programme on in the kitchen . |
| 19 | I saw some , my erm people at the bottom of the garden were having their lunch out in the garden |
| 20 | ‘ Yeah , well , just tell them they got two more days and then they get their boy back in a bag . |
| 21 | Sam took Nutty and her team up in the car straight after the last lesson ; Nails had not been around which was just as well as the car did not hold more than five . |
| 22 | Although its body was serpentine it moved , not by slithering along the ground , but by rearing the forward half of its body along in a coil . |
| 23 | You can also draw the map of an island with buried treasure on it , and each child places a flag with their name on in the spot where they think the treasure is likely to be . |
| 24 | Benny nodded her head up in the direction of the convent at the end of the town . |
| 25 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're not going to succumb , Bernard , ’ she would say if he made a move towards her , and she 'd toss her head back in a swift , moving , golden curtain . |
| 27 | Add to this the recent announcements by Kodak and Xerox that they have adopted Adobe PostScript as a future imaging model and you begin to see a whole new world opening up where the PC is , at last , able to hold its head up in the Macintosh dominated publishing market . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll bring my gun next time , ’ said Mrs Wright putting her cigarette down in an ash-tray . |
| 29 | She crushed her cigarette out in an ashtray . |
| 30 | They all let their breath out in an explosion of laughter . |