Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 2 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
| 3 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
| 4 | The figures are left in the orange colour of the clay , the background painted in round them in the shiny black : a purely decorative variation ; and it has been plausibly suggested that the strange ‘ negative ’ idea was inspired by the custom of washing the background of marble reliefs with a blue or red against which the mainly white figures were left standing out . |
| 5 | look down on you in the middle class ! |
| 6 | She pulled him down beside her in the long grass , and smiled shyly at him as she undressed . |
| 7 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 8 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 9 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 10 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 11 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 12 | Dolly let him get on with it in the usual way . |
| 13 | Rebel Ruddock emerged as the players ' spokesman for Venables , speaking up for him in the High Court yesterday , having already slapped in a transfer request to Sugar . |
| 14 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 15 | Charles caught up with him in the Green Room . |
| 16 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 17 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 18 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
| 19 | Past Glories suggested he is on the way back when third to Kribensis in the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle , while Floyd is not quite up to it in the highest class these days . |
| 20 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 21 | She went over to the shelf where she had left her drink , and stared down in dismay at the overturned glass , the shards of crystal glinting wickedly up at her in the dim light . |
| 22 | Eventually she had found out about it in the worst possible way . |
| 23 | We only found out about it in the British press when we arrived in Wales . |
| 24 | Watch out for him in the second series of The Young Ones when it 's next repeated , making a brief guest appearance as an exploding peasant . |
| 25 | This means handicaps are out for him in the immediate future and conditions races will have to be the order of the day on the run-up to Cheltenham . |
| 26 | If nothing else you feel for a man blighted by an absurdly exalted image — and one who can make a joke out of it in the wonderful tongue-in-cheek prophecy of The End of the World that closes the album ( ‘ Nostradamus and Jesus and Buddha and me/ We said it was coming/ Now just wait and see ’ ) . |
| 27 | Relax , ’ he said , drawing her back towards him in the cramped confines of the passage . |
| 28 | There , spread out below her in the late afternoon sun , was Florence . |
| 29 | Me and my missus are actually going out with me in the next couple of weeks , |
| 30 | Throughout most of the history of the Rump he was a close political supporter of Oliver Cromwell , but in 1653 he fell out with him in the complicated debates about the dissolution of the House . |