Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They will have it in for us in a big way . |
| 2 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 3 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
| 4 | From these bits of activity , a richer life could develop ; but it is vital that whatever Harry and Elizabeth choose is something they both really want to do and not a situation where she goes along with it in a patronising way , and then leaves him high and dry . |
| 5 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He seized her and brought his mouth down on hers in a punishing kiss that made her senses swim . |
| 8 | Suddenly a hail of earth , stones , metal fragments , pieces of exhaust pipe and car door came down on us in a dust-covered mass . |
| 9 | look down on you in the middle class ! |
| 10 | They find some woollen garment or other soft furnishing in the house and then settle down on it in a contented fashion . |
| 11 | Biblioth. , P.L. 28.556 ) , and Origen still knew its Hebrew title , which has come down to us in a corrupt and unintelligible form , Sarbethsabanaiel ( ap . |
| 12 | Much medieval painting has come down to us in a fragmentary condition , and often in a very poor state of conservation . |
| 13 | Up to then there had been little social division in towns and houses were crowded in on themselves in a formless way . |
| 14 | The number of tau neutrinos created in the big bang can be worked out ; if they did not decay into other particles , and weighed 17 keV , then the universe would be more than 200 times heavier than it appears — so heavy that it would have collapsed in on itself in a big crunch eons ago . |
| 15 | She pulled him down beside her in the long grass , and smiled shyly at him as she undressed . |
| 16 | He smiled down at her in a drunken , rather disquieting sort of way . |
| 17 | She smiled down at him in a funny way , stroked his head , touched his cheek with the back of her fingers . |
| 18 | Sometimes the horse stretches out its neck at the horse it is trying to warn off and tosses its head up and down at it in a threatening manner . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 21 | The pollution did n't kill the ripple , and could n't get through to you in a skin-tight SCE unit . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ This has really taken off for us in a big way , ’ George told Sunday Life after a sports luncheon at Belfast 's Europa Hotel on Friday . |
| 26 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 27 | I suppose that bearded bloke must 'ave dropped it , I suppose I must 'ave picked it up without thinking and that I went off with it in an absent-minded way . |
| 28 | Taken off by it in an acute , short , not often painful illness , the old man escapes those ‘ cold gradations of decay ’ so distressing to himself and to his friends . ’ |
| 29 | Dolly let him get on with it in the usual way . |
| 30 | 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 . |