Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] in [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe this attitude lingers on in advanced Western societies , explaining why some people still wax so lyrical about arcane grammatical rules , the Oxford English Dictionary and all the other magical authorities , and why they are so indignant about feminists ‘ tampering with language ’ .
2 Piero Fornasetti lives on in these pure silk ties
3 One building stands out in this dispiriting panorama of post-war mediocrity : a dark powerful mass of brickwork with a tall central tower that stands right across the Thames from Wren 's dome .
4 ‘ … he 's very depressed … see him when I can … he 's not working … not doing anything , much … still lies about in that appalling house drinking …
5 Er it 's , it 's not a problem , it just er it shows up in odd little corners of the .
6 Additional material from Theodore turns up in other Irish manuscripts , dating from the eighth century , the ninth century and , in one case , from the late tenth century — more than four hundred years after Theodore was condemned .
7 And yet the author of so many adulatory sermons preached before James I cries out in these private prayers , ‘ Deliver me from making Gods of Kings ! ’
8 So that the flying part never got mentioned at all , you know , whether he flies around in single engined planes .
9 You see a black guy in the ring and he moves around in this relaxed way , totally lacking inhibition in his movement .
10 Ludmila Andrews ' Mad , Bad Mortal Beings is about the emotional turmoil of a black woman recovering from a relationship , and Sonali Fernando 's Shakti is a brief fable about a trash-collecting Asian woman who sees off a white yob with sort-of magic powers and struts around in funky transformed shoes .
11 To the left is the great waterfall — the cirque has numerous supporting ones — which comes down in one huge leap of 1,400 feet when the snows are melting or in two rather more modest leaps once they are finished .
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