Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner . |
| 2 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 3 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 4 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 5 | Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve . |
| 6 | She was glad to get home , to wash the grit from the paths off her feet , to sit down in the cool unglaring indoors . |
| 7 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'll have to go down in the fattening fields with the cows . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We wanted to play Dublin but all the venues were booked out months ago , so we 'll have to come back in the New Year and do somewhere like the SFX or the Stadium . |
| 10 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 11 | The Sheffield Wednesday defender last night confirmed that he 's ready to bounce back in the live TV match with Spurs exactly 12 days after a horror collision . |
| 12 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |
| 13 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 14 | Another political time bomb , waiting to go off in the New Year , is a Select Committee inquiry into Britain 's overall energy needs . |
| 15 | This literally causes water to pile up in the western Pacific : a veritable hill of water . |
| 16 | Notice is set to go up in the local regsistrar 's office on Thursday , just 48 hours before they walk down the aisle . |
| 17 | We come therefore to synthesise the ideas I had tried to put over in the preceding chapters . |
| 18 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 20 | We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well . |
| 21 | In the mornings I used to sit out in the warm sun of our terrace and read the travellers ' descriptions of the Delhi they knew from their visits at the very apex of the Mughal Empire . |
| 22 | This scheme will be used in future for it provides an opportunity for the genuine fan who attends games against less glamorous opposition not to lose out in the real crowd pullers . |
| 23 | CW to add this to a list of jobs which DCS to carry out in the near future . |
| 24 | Lion Cavern came from last in a race run at a slow early pace , to get up in the finalstrides and score by a head from long-time leader River Falls , with Swing Low a further length away third , and Rodrigo de Triano failing to run on in the final furlong and weakening for fourth . |
| 25 | Therefore , if a moth hears a bat approaching about 100 feet away , its best policy is to fly off in the other direction . |
| 26 | We are all frightened that fossil fuels are going to run out in the foreseeable future , and I wonder if i could ask you about one or two possibilities . |
| 27 | Perhaps a rural revolutionary left emerged in Ireland with the Fenians in the 1860s , to burst out in the formidable Land League of the late 1870s and 1880s . |
| 28 | She would have got soaked had they stayed any longer , and Ven was quite right to see it was not sensible to amble around in the pouring rain . |
| 29 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 30 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |