Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 2 | He sat down in a vacant chair and at once the younger cadet hurried to serve him with tea from a spotless samovar . |
| 3 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 4 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 5 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 6 | I do not want to get bogged down in a semantic quibble but it does rather look as though sociologists have just as much difficulty as anyone else in doing without the word ‘ profession ’ . |
| 7 | Thank you for your interest , comrade , sit down in the listening corner and I shall begin . |
| 8 | During that period the bees would be working busily up and down in the fermenting liquid and at the end of the two weeks it was ready for straining and bottling . |
| 9 | Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory . |
| 10 | We are sending you Hurtard our serjeant , to cause oaks to be cut down in the said forest and carried to Winchester against Christmas , for our hearth . |
| 11 | What I want you to do is try and hold on to it in your brain then when I 've finished write it down in the appropriate box and see if you can hold on to it long enough to do that . |
| 12 | There is not the space here for a detailed examination of the regime laid down in the 1981 Act and the Education ( Special Educational Needs ) Regulations 1983 , as amended . |
| 13 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 14 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 15 | He came back from 0-5 down in the third-set tiebreaker and reached match point at 6-5 with a fully-extended diving volley right out of the Becker Wimbledon highlight films . |
| 16 | He came back from 0-5 down in the third-set tie-breaker and reached match point at 6-5 with a fully-extended diving volley right out of the Becker Wimbledon highlight films . |
| 17 | At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed . |
| 18 | There might be some mist floating around down in the southwestern part but generally those temperatures will be above freezing . |
| 19 | Nails , without thinking , sat down in the comfortable straw and talked to the mare , leaning his head against the refrigerator wall . |
| 20 | His face smashed a pane low down in the french window and went through , stippling Goldman 's shoes with blood . |
| 21 | Nature Boy , on the other hand , funks along in a pleasant style and a vocal that my flatmate swears says ‘ funky nibbles ’ , but then he 's mad . |
| 22 | ‘ But they won through in a dour encounter and I wish them well in the next round . |
| 23 | ‘ The call came through in the normal way and we dealt with it as we normally would , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Horne should have increased Everton 's lead when Ebbrell 's ball put him through in the 62nd minute but he delayed too long . |
| 25 | We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge . |
| 26 | Though I must admit , we 'll be glad when it 's all over in the Far East and they can come back safe and sound . ’ |
| 27 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 28 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 29 | One woman had her finger cut off in a slicing machine and never received any compensation . |
| 30 | As Patricia Monahan says ‘ oil-painting should be a journey of exploration and pleasure ’ , adding that ‘ the artist sets off in a particular direction but ends up somewhere else . ’ |