Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many counties had drawn on their reserves to keep rate increases down in their own election year of 1989 . |
| 2 | Now whether Derry — and what looks like being a weakened Derry side , into the bargain — can overcome Down in their own back yard with so much at stake is another matter altogether . |
| 3 | Simply waggle the club and set it down in your normal address position . |
| 4 | because you can go down in your first line move to the first letter o , after the number , hit the tab key and you 've actually lined up the first line along with the rest of your paragraph . |
| 5 | ‘ Sure , ’ he said , moving a pile of paperbacks and sitting down in my fake Bauhaus leather and steel chair ( one of a set , of one ) . |
| 6 | So I was turned down in my own county town in favour of a stranger … |
| 7 | Hamlin … all gone … so plenty for us to chew over in our first rugby review . |
| 8 | Alfred was waving a white-stockinged leg in the air , Heinrich experimentally bending over in his black knee breeches ; James was pulling at his skimpy short jacket , puffing out his chest like Beerbohm Tree as d'Artagnan , Algernon was dancing a Highland fling showing off his black slipper shoes , and Alice and Emily were swishing merrily arm in arm through the kitchen in their huge , gathered black skirts covered with large , bibbed , lacy aprons . |
| 9 | THREE masked thugs trussed up businessman Tom Hartley and his wife Helen at their home and drove off in their new £60,000 Mercedes with valuables worth £250,000 . |
| 10 | Wednesday had David Hirst sent off in their 3–1 UEFA Cup reverse in Kaiserslautern a fortnight ago and manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ We felt unjustly treated after the first game , but tonight it was very fair and they deserved to go through . |
| 11 | It was an appropriate way for the prolific England striker to sign off in his native East Midlands before he leaves to start a new life in Japanese football next season . |
| 12 | She arrived at last an hour or so later , swerving up in her blue sports car , its boot piled with a large amount of luggage . |
| 13 | Damian lunged after Tony , his face dark with rage as he bit out thickly , ‘ You 're like a bloody wasp , stinging at me — driving up in your red sports car , honking your horn , taking her dancing all over town , kissing her behind my back , sending me a painting of her half naked for my wedding present ! ’ |
| 14 | We will not be able to supply an adequate home care service without the release of the resources that are tied up in our elderly persons homes . |
| 15 | This week in Georgia he has been keeping a low profile , wrapped up in his own game plan , which is how he best enjoys life , it seems . |
| 16 | But after he inherited a little money and set up in his own business Mama stopped working , and then she had my little brothers . ’ |
| 17 | Niall sending her up in his lilting Belfast voice for claiming Irish blood . |
| 18 | And perhaps ( I 'm being vain ) it was something that happened when Caroline was going on in her silly woman-of-advanced-ideas way — just a look between us . |
| 19 | When my husband 's mother , Lakey , died , an extraordinary scene of pillage went on in her little Blackpool bungalow after Jack had uttered the fateful sentence to visiting friends and relatives ‘ Take whatever you want . ’ |
| 20 | Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes . |
| 21 | Because of the way that the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years to a system where mixed ability is introduced year by year from the first to third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school , one lot of pupils in their streamed classes and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes , and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and the mixed ability classes . |
| 22 | Diogenes Laertius was not the only ancient philosopher he had worked on in his later Leipzig days : he had also grappled with the Aristotelian corpus and , especially , with the Presocratic , Democritus . |
| 23 | And so it was that she did n't hear Andrew come in and enter the sitting-room , there to see his daughter dressed for going out in her wide-skirted jersey dress , her black hair hanging loose about her shoulders , and wearing , of all things , green-lobed earrings . |
| 24 | The brothers dutifully responded to the May-Day request and immediately set out in their 36 foot launch to search for the bevvied buccaneer . |
| 25 | With regard to the proposals set out in your finalised business plan , we will make recommendations as to the type and source of funds , effect appropriate introductions through our extensive network of funding source contacts ( including venture capital and banking sources ) and advise and support on presentations to funding sources . |
| 26 | Of course , Thomas Luis de Victoria is better known than Juan Gutièrez de Padilla but , as Bruno Turner points out in his informative programme note , he is ‘ undoubtedly the finest composer of the colonial period to come from Old Spain and spend nearly all his productive life in the New Spain ’ . |
| 27 | Mr Naughtie insists that his name be pronounced ‘ knock-tee ’ and as Richard Littlejohn pointed out in his old Evening Standard column , this means that one of our great comic novelists is , in fact , Evelyn Wok . |
| 28 | I find in my files Bawden 's own account , written out in his finicky copperplate hand , of his own quasi-William Morris enterprise as a designer-manufacturer of wallpapers in the late 1930s : ‘ The desire to do wallpaper designs arose from seeing a furnished room hung with William Morris 's ‘ Daisy ’ at the Wembley International Exhibition . |
| 29 | Artemis and Rosie both stood in silent uncertainty for a moment before Rosie began to pick up the marbles and put them back in their small cloth sack . |
| 30 | When she came back in her long nightdress Maxim was in the bed by the window bare-shouldered and riffling through a handful of motel pamphlets . |