Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 2 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 3 | It only remained to write everything up in a comprehensive report . |
| 4 | In three respects at least D. H. Lawrence 's attitude to homosexuality was typical : first , he seems to have been able to accept it only in an idealized and spiritual form ; as Paul Delany puts it , he wanted not a lover but a spiritual brother . |
| 5 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 6 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 7 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 8 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 9 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 10 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 11 | His head bent towards her and once again Jenna lifted her hands to ward him off in a panic-stricken way , but her fingers felt useless . |
| 12 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 13 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |
| 14 | Along with the canteen , therefore , the parade room is a key location where , at the beginning of the day 's work , individuals start to immerse themselves again in the occupational culture of the station and adjust to the labour process . |
| 15 | The discourse of ‘ diagnosis ’ represents a coercive use of metaphor in that its aim is to replicate itself faithfully in the conceptual idiolect of all people . |
| 16 | Polyester : Polyester fibres , usually coated with synthetic resin to bond them together in a flat sheet . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Herbs and other cottage garden plants are back in fashion and what a novel way this is to grow them attractively in a limited area . |
| 19 | Those in power wanted the voice of newly independent Tanganyika to express itself forcefully in a printed medium that could be received not only nationally but also abroad . |
| 20 | He took one hand off the controls to sweep it out in a large gesture that took in the whole of the City of London . |
| 21 | It looked as though the Americans were going to sweep us aside in the early part of the afternoon at one point we had lost the match and were down in eight and up in only one . |
| 22 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 25 | Or is he to allow her to rest her left forearm on his right and to guide her round in an elegant mazurka — leading her , as it were , from the shoulder so that she always moves just in front of him ? |
| 26 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
| 27 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | On second thoughts I think it best to put it back in the old oak chest . |
| 30 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |