Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's probably sitting down in one of the cloakrooms . |
| 2 | Averting her gaze , Shiona sat down in one of the armchairs , smoothing the skirt of her dress over her knees . |
| 3 | The sort of problems the owners ’ party have had on this trip so far are a tap that wo n't stop dripping , a blind that wo n't stay down in one of the bedrooms , eh ? , and a lady who thought one of her suitcases had been stolen , only it turned up in someone else 's room . ’ |
| 4 | This court was set up in 1971 by the Courts Act . |
| 5 | This was the ancestor of the most successful group of all these shelled worms , the molluscs , and it too has a living representative , a tiny organism called Neopilina , which was dredged up in 1952 from the depths of the Pacific . |
| 6 | The private monopoly of radio set manufacturers , set up in 1922 from the applicants for government broadcasting licences , was turned into a public monopoly : the British Broadcasting Corporation . |
| 7 | And and the write up in one of the papers well I was well I 'd to tell that guy if he 's watching I can ya nip ! |
| 8 | I 'm going to wrap up in one of the linens . |
| 9 | William Shirer , the CBS correspondent in Berlin , attended the Rundfunk party , finding a big Christmas tree set up in one of the offices , where ‘ the people were dancing and making merry with champagne … . |
| 10 | I ended up in one of the rooms in the roof and the man I thought was a friend grabbed hold of me and started masturbating me . |
| 11 | Right , those things then can go up in one of the drawers , I think they 're . |
| 12 | Which ever of those three wives takes food tomorrow to the workmen building the walls of the city , that one must be walled up in one of the pillars of the great gate . |
| 13 | I saw a boy up in one of the trees . |
| 14 | It originates from the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation ( ICFC ) and Finance for Commerce and Industry ( FCI ) set up in 1945 on the findings of the MacMillan Committee that a gap existed in the provision of long term capital funds to small businesses . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was inevitable that when the Auditing Practices Board was set up in 1991 in the ashes of the old Auditing Practices Committee , Mr Morrison 's name should spring to mind as its first chairman . |
| 16 | Now two short blasts and the school lined up in twos behind the monitors — Standard One on the left — Six to the right . |
| 17 | ANDRA was set up in 1977 under the auspices of the atomic energy commission ( Commissariat à l'Énergie atomique ) and its sister organization , the state nuclear corporation ( Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires ) . |
| 18 | Community Forests , funded by the Forestry and Countryside Commissions , were set up in 1990 on the outskirts of major cities . |
| 19 | At about 6 o'clock , a light snapped on in one of the huts . |
| 20 | In the eighteenth century this was wrongly equated with Lucas de Heere [ q.v. ] and it was only in 1913 that ( Sir ) Lionel Cust [ q.v. ] made the connection with Eworth , thanks to his listing as a painter in the inventory made out in 1590 of the pictures belonging to John , first Baron Lumley [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | At this point the first disturbance broke out in one of the galleries , with groups of men and women starting to chant " Fascism means murder : Down with Mosley " . |
| 22 | Fighting broke out in one of the markets , two people were stabbed and a third sprained his ankle when a stall of onions collapsed . |
| 23 | We were greatly influenced by the work of the FMS and some of us had collaborated with that organization back in 1968 during the teachers ' massive strike . |