Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually it was just a dark dot way up in the shy , almost unrecognisable except for the distinctive flight pattern : it would glide round in a circle , then soar off in a straight line , helped along by the wind , and finally resume its circular flight again . |
| 2 | All they could do now was to turn Moat Hall upside down in the forlorn hope something remained in the near-derelict place to hint at its erstwhile owner 's present refuge . |
| 3 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 4 | If someone puts the Black Spot on Zeneca , nothing is going to make the price perk up in the short term . |
| 5 | Aunt Tossie put the long-handled gravy spoon back in the napkin-swathed pudding bowl and waited in happy expectation for the sea-kale . |
| 6 | As the water piles up in the western Pacific , it then becomes both warmer and more dilute . |
| 7 | Engineering firm back in the black |
| 8 | I bought my first pair of those brown suede boots back in the early Sixties . |
| 9 | The 29-year-old Blaydon Harrier lines up in the international women 's road mile with Dorovskikh , the Ukranian who took the 3,000 metres title ahead of Yvonne Murray in Tokyo last summer and also finished second in the 1500 metres . |
| 10 | Finally , though all drivers are at heart egotists and publicity-seekers ( it is part of the game ) , James always played his life right out in the open : sex life , life style and all . |
| 11 | The silence continued to fall Creggan watched Woil who looked smaller on the litter bin out in the great free world than he had in the cage . |
| 12 | Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s . |
| 13 | The excess risk levels off in the following years and is undoubtedly the result of selection of patients with an unrecognised malignancy at the time of commencement of peptic ulcer treatment . |
| 14 | What is required is an experiment in which , after non-reinforced exposure in one context and conditioning in a different context , the subjects are tested with the target stimulus back in the original context . |
| 15 | Market members back in the black |