Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ She 'll have to go down in the fattening fields with the cows . ’ |
| 4 | We come therefore to synthesise the ideas I had tried to put over in the preceding chapters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ . |
| 7 | It began to break down in the post-war years and during that period , too , the concentration of control functions in London also began to increase . |
| 8 | Hill , who survived a late collision with Berger 's Ferrari lost a lot of time in the traffic and this gave Gerhard the opportunity to close up in the closing stages . |
| 9 | If you are to move about in the senior echelons of industry , this is an important ability to develop . |