Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She carried them on to the terrace in front of the house , and sat down , intending to read one of the paperback books she 'd brought with her until the light faded . |
| 2 | He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly , it is alleged . |
| 3 | The King 's Fund found that good projects involved families in the planning of services and built them in to the system in such a way that they felt their important role was appreciated . |
| 4 | Yeah the thing is I 've got ta write them down in the order in which they appear . |
| 5 | On the day that Wilson was elected to office , he telephoned me , tracking me down to a restaurant in London , to enquire what to do about the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . |
| 6 | ‘ I wondered if you would drive me down to the town in the van . ’ |
| 7 | One day Glumdalclitch put me down on the grass in the palace garden , while she went for a walk with some of the Queen 's ladies . |
| 8 | ‘ Lee 's got this idea , ’ said Lee 's Mum , ‘ that if he lets Caspar out , someone down at the farm in the village will shoot him . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd chain-smoke a couple of Merits while we chatted about what had happened since our last meeting and then he 'd hand me over to the guy in the room next door for a routine polygraph . |
| 10 | Larry gave up and left the room and threw himself on to an armchair in the living-room . |
| 11 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
| 12 | He 's not naturally aggressive — he 's not a friend of John Major 's for nothing — and he 's not nasty enough ; he 's been trying , no doubt psyching himself up in the mirror in the mornings — ‘ I will be beastly to them ! |
| 13 | At the riverside we can see Mr Gould on his stomach out on the ice , pushing himself back from the hole in the river ; people are shouting and running around ; we head down the river towards the narrows and the gorge and my father slips and almost drops me and his breath smells of whisky and food . |
| 14 | This charge against Latimer was almost certainly baseless , though it is more difficult to assess whether he had made undue profits for himself out of the campaign in Brittany . |
| 15 | He walked back the way he had come and let himself out by a gate in the railing where a metal notice planted in the earth read : Department of the Environment . |
| 16 | Between 2 January and 6 January 1939 , for example , the brothers walked forty-two miles in the Welsh Marches ( i.e. borders — from me Old English mearc ) , and rounded them off with a stay in Great Malvern . |
| 17 | We were expecting you down at the Man in the Moon . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll beam you up to a point in space close to the centre of a galaxy . |
| 19 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll meet you back at the cart in an hour or so . ’ |
| 21 | Ought to have you back at the front in a matter of days , ’ she added sadly . |
| 22 | Some of the men carried you out into the light in the gallery . ’ |
| 23 | Will you ? ’ rather than , ‘ Would you like me to take you out for a run in the car some time ? ’ |
| 24 | And there 's a fascinating article in this , the current edition , the January edition it is now , because they go so far in advance , of She magazine , which says that er , it 's a desperate plight sometimes , when you have people coming for Christmas who fall into several categories like lazy slobs , who do absolutely nothing , and misers , who turn up with a stale box of chocolates , and never take you out for a meal in return for your hospitality , and the amorous couples who er , embarrass you by er , er , noisily retiring to their bedroom , if I may put it that way , and then the guests who turn up in mid-row , and bicker systematically over the whole of the festive period . |
| 25 | But when I looked down , I saw the board was all made of bones and wire ; and I screamed and you said , " Swim — everybody swim " ; and then I was looking for you everywhere and trying to drag you out of a hole in the bank . |
| 26 | I want the pair of you out of the office in ten minutes . |
| 27 | Were you out in the playground in the wind ? |
| 28 | I 'll pop you out in the bag in a minute ! |
| 29 | Reinvoicing activity is rather different , providing a stopping off point that holds itself out as the origin in communication with the customer ( or possibly the tax authorities of the customer 's territory ) . |
| 30 | Ruth unpacked the few clothes she had brought with her and hung them up in the wardrobe in the dressing-room then she plugged in her hairdrier and blow-dried her hair in front of the dressing-table mirror . |