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 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 5 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was glad to get home , to wash the grit from the paths off her feet , to sit down in the cool unglaring indoors . |
| 9 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 10 | ‘ She 'll have to go down in the fattening fields with the cows . ’ |
| 11 | That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being . |
| 12 | It has yet to catch on in the Third World but when it does it could prove extremely useful . |
| 13 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | The statement reported the summit 's decision to establish a " special commission to consider the suggestions of the countries on the key aspects of co-operation within the CMEA framework and to work out in the shortest time drafts of new fundamental CMEA documents " . |
| 16 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 17 | Such references also tended to crop up in the earlier discussion of attitudes to particular tasks : this comment of Jean Bevan 's is representative : |
| 18 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |
| 21 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 22 | Another political time bomb , waiting to go off in the New Year , is a Select Committee inquiry into Britain 's overall energy needs . |
| 23 | Eleven tricks made for a very good score , as several other declarers had actually contrived to go off in the same contract . |
| 24 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
| 25 | If he managed to win through in the first round , there is now a second round of contests to be staged , followed by the final round later in the year . |
| 26 | This literally causes water to pile up in the western Pacific : a veritable hill of water . |
| 27 | Notice is set to go up in the local regsistrar 's office on Thursday , just 48 hours before they walk down the aisle . |
| 28 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 29 | We come therefore to synthesise the ideas I had tried to put over in the preceding chapters . |
| 30 | 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 . |