Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the man who says , ‘ It looks bent ’ thereby exhibits his sophistication in the matter of how an object 's being half in water leads to his seeing it otherwise than as it is . |
| 2 | ‘ He walked in to see her standing in the kitchen naked with burnt pubic hair , ’ said Mr Godsmark . |
| 3 | In practice this rarely happened , and anyway since childhood , even before she was old enough to wear her hair in the Lock of Youth twisted over her right shoulder , she had known the location of the hidden bolt , and how to slide it . |
| 4 | American insurers already reckon there is a $40bn ( about £26bn ) market for foreign investors brave enough to risk their capital in the old Soviet Union . |
| 5 | That is , unless he was lucky enough to lose his wife in the near future . |
| 6 | Rymer spoke only to confirm his identity in the short hearing . |
| 7 | In their case , there seems no doubt that it greatly enhanced their belief in the strength of their royalty as kings of Scotland . |
| 8 | Sir Lawrence Byford , the president of Yorkshire CCC , is personally advocating their inclusion in the coaching . |
| 9 | As Eve 's resentment of the family had grown , so had her interest in the cottage dwindled . |
| 10 | Washington the role model is modest about his achievements , preferring perhaps to identify his role in the context of the greater need of setting an example for others to follow . |
| 11 | They could do this by ‘ numbering ’ from the two ends and so know their position in the line . |
| 12 | But for the moment she had to concentrate on dipping a formal curtsey to the Queen , a consideration which had greatly exercised her mind in the previous few days . |
| 13 | But it is an open question whether his policies will loosen it sufficiently to keep his country in the competition . |
| 14 | She has toiled endlessly to keep her body in the shape it was in 20 years ago with a punishing regime of exercise and diet . |
| 15 | These clubs did not necessarily take their sport in the spirit of fair play . |
| 16 | Her achievements have not been forgotten , and five awards are given annually to commemorate her work in the field of nutrition and public awareness of healthy eating . |
| 17 | Travis stared deeply into her eyes before bending down to bury his head in the sweet scented curve of her shoulder . |
| 18 | Hirtle ( 1975 : 124 ) makes this successivity explicit when he diagrams his analysis of modal will in At one o'clock they will eat lunch : The role of will is described as that of " keeping the infinitive beyond the stretch of time containing the present of actual consciousness " and so situating its event in the future . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , Sarah , we can only put our trust in the Lord . ’ |
| 20 | His friend Okawi had signalled to the other canoes by gently shaking his thumb in the direction of the sleeping animals . |
| 21 | I have never heard anything so irresponsible and silly ; he does a great disservice to farmers , who rightly put their confidence in the Government , not him , to get it right . |
| 22 | Draw up a list of 20 things you have never done that are silly but do n't cost much money and work your way down the list by doing one each day ( eg leave your car in the garage and hitch a lift , turn the daily newspaper into papier mâché , go to the shops wearing a funny hat , shake hands with the next 10 people you meet ) . |
| 23 | The Armagnacs thus lost the foundations of a potential power-base in Provence , but had greatly enhanced their position in the south-west . |
| 24 | In one direction lie the behaviour and attitudes , the short term planning and the easy options which have so bedevilled our performance in the past " ( Department of Employment 1989:19 ) . |
| 25 | Remember that there is no shame in failing in the short-term provided you learn from that failure and so assist your progress in the long-term . |
| 26 | Such a solution would only dilute their interest in the company . |
| 27 | Such absurdity is there only to test our faith in the way that Abraham was tested with an ‘ absurd ’ moral demand . |
| 28 | Most of the public do n't often think about the Fire Service until they actually need it but I am sure they will welcome fire fighters , not only improved our confidence in the service but theirs as well . |
| 29 | The ex-England bowler badly burned his arm in the strimmer accident . |
| 30 | We have to live in the present , not make our present in the past . |