Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may do it by actually ‘ clobbering ’ somebody , but this would imply a rather drastic escalation of the conflict situation and happens too rarely for everyone in the aggro-leader role to prove themselves . |
| 2 | It was good enough for them in the old days , and it will be good enough for them again , especially with THE woman out of the way . |
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| 4 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 5 | On the other hand , what Alcuin has to say must be set beside the respect accorded Aelfwald 's memory at Hexham where the king was buried ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) , which shows that the community at Hexham thought highly of him in the twelfth century and probably earlier . |
| 6 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
| 7 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
| 8 | These are now part of planning history , but it is live history : the issues are still very much with us in the 1980s , and there is no guarantee that the current resolution of them will prove sufficiently resilient to withstand the unpredictable changes in the context within which they operate . |
| 9 | The figures are left in the orange colour of the clay , the background painted in round them in the shiny black : a purely decorative variation ; and it has been plausibly suggested that the strange ‘ negative ’ idea was inspired by the custom of washing the background of marble reliefs with a blue or red against which the mainly white figures were left standing out . |
| 10 | look down on you in the middle class ! |
| 11 | She pulled him down beside her in the long grass , and smiled shyly at him as she undressed . |
| 12 | Having quoted the opening of Gormenghast in 1.4 as an example of an opaque style , we shall now return to another passage which occurs shortly after it in the same novel . |
| 13 | ‘ If I may say so , that 's not like you in the slightest . ’ |
| 14 | As sometimes happens with pianists of exceptional technical ability there can often be a sense in their playing that they are trying hard not to run away with themselves in the easy passages . |
| 15 | Erm I will take those notes away with me in the strictest confidence , go through them erm work out some recommendations , how you could hit the goals that you will go for at the end of the day . |
| 16 | They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ? |
| 17 | Although she was sitting only a foot or two away from him in the opposite corner of the seat and had frequently tried to smile at him , he felt inexplicably betrayed . |
| 18 | In whatever fashion the contrast is formulated ( we might say , for example , that the two revolutions — political and industrial — which had inspired the new political science began to move in different directions , towards greater equality in one case , away from it in the other ) it embodies a large part of the substance of political enquiry and of political doctrines from the nineteenth century to the present time . |
| 19 | The outside world and all its adversities faded away to nothing in the heated thrill of his embrace . |
| 20 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 21 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 22 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 23 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 24 | I 'll tell you more about it in the next chapter . |
| 25 | But you are going to hear a great deal more about it in the coming months . |
| 26 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 27 | I hope to be able to discuss it further with him in the not-too-distant future . |
| 28 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 29 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 30 | Dolly let him get on with it in the usual way . |