Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 2 | In some of his experiments the rats were rolling along to get to the food in the goal-box . |
| 3 | A woman suffered minor injuries when the car she was in collided with a van in Victoria Road , Consett , last night . |
| 4 | The federal army has been called in to act as a buffer in areas of high tension . |
| 5 | The position with regard to face-to-face transactions is considered first , before going on to look at the position in relation to impersonal stock market deals . |
| 6 | Harry Fry , John Ross and Jimmy Rutherford , ordinary Scots who went off to fight for a cause in Spain and who were not to return . |
| 7 | The poodle people said you 'd thrown everything up and gone off to live in a shack in the country … |
| 8 | I think it started before ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ — it started around the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ period with the clothes and I think we started off playing as a duo in the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ period . |
| 9 | He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light . |
| 10 | While the move will reassure metropolitan-minded trademark agents — who feared they might have ended up dealing with an office in Wales — it will create some problems . |
| 11 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 12 | So just carry on slumped in an armchair in front of the set . |
| 13 | About 80 per cent of officials in these ministries survived the US purge and went on to cooperate with the Occupation in containing the labour movement into ‘ sound ’ de-politicized unions . |
| 14 | Mike 's voice , commanding , imperative , had him reluctantly obeying its uncompromising call as he ran lightly back to sit in the car in readiness to leave the pits and take his place on the grid . |
| 15 | Is n't it bad enough going out to work as a skivvy in someone 's shop without dressing as a skivvy at home . ’ |
| 16 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 17 | In a pointed reference to criticism of his refusal to rule out voting with the Government in the future , he said : ‘ Jim of all people should know that there are occasions when Labour as well as the Tories can act against the Scottish interest and therefore must be opposed . ’ |
| 18 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 19 | Remove and spread out to dry on a rack in an airy place ; if not thoroughly dry , it becomes mouldy later — then store in airtight containers between greaseproof paper . |
| 20 | In his first State of the Union message , Reagan reiterated the essentials of his programme and went on to call for an increase in defence spending of $7.2 billion and cuts in excess of $40 billion from the proposed 1982 budget of $740 billion . |
| 21 | Wander around looking for a boy in half-dead trainers with green Dayglo socks showing through . |
| 22 | For years they suffered in silence while barriers were pranged , concrete bollards damaged and other cars blocked in as the 23-year-old careered around looking for a space in the car park . |
| 23 | He flew around hoping for a break in the visibility . |
| 24 | Right , well I suppose the big sporting story of the evening has to be the boxing ; George Forman , who 's forty-one is about to go into the ring in er London 's Docklands arena . |
| 25 | The Minneapolis native joined the board at twenty-three , as he was about to embark on a career in the family 's department store chain . |
| 26 | But the greatest advance in regularity was soon about to descend on the world in which I found myself : the introduction of a complex railway system which depended on exact and uniform timing over whole countries , not on the vagaries of a church steeple or a parson 's watch . |
| 27 | Charlie was only a yard behind them , and was about to charge through a gap in the barrier when Tommy overtook him . |