Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers . |
| 2 | I did n't see it for ages because I was too busy sticking an old rotten fence-post out through the slits in the pillbox , pretending it was a gun and firing at imaginary ships . |
| 3 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 4 | She rooted through the cupboards , turned her nose up at the dishes in the sink , selected tea cups and located the caddy . |
| 5 | As his mind rambles from the boy to the jersey to Ellen ( who knitted it ) , to the sea and the Borough ( via the fish Grimes is going to get rich by catching ) , back to Ellen and the future life they will never lead because Grimes can not escape his past — as his mind rambles in this way , so the music probes our sympathies by constant allusion back to the variations in the interlude . |
| 6 | I step off my chipboard kneeler on to a joist in order to slide the three-foot square board up near the eaves in the corner . |
| 7 | Pour boiling water on to the leaves in a clean container or teapot and leave to stand for 3–10 minutes ( no longer , otherwise the flavour changes ) . |
| 8 | One day , on a long walk , he 'd almost literally bumped into Fergus Urvill , crouching in a hide up amongst the folds in the hills , waiting with telescope and .303 for a wounded Sika deer . |
| 9 | We fished stuff out of the trashcans in Washington Square Park , a sandwich , an apple intact but for the missing bite , then to the Superette for nickels and dimes . |
| 10 | Perhaps in conjunction with a yacht , motor-cruiser or smaller water craft the aeroplane would provide a smashing day out for the high-achievers in any organization , make an unusual fishing expedition to normally remote waters , take more passive passengers sightseeing , or allow access to many such widely-separated leisure activities all on the same day . |
| 11 | You did n't have to hold slides of this unidentified emotional entity up against the illustrations in the textbook before you could declare your findings ! |
| 12 | Starke was still talking , taking bits of paper out of the drawers in the desk and showing them to Grout , but Steven was n't looking or listening . |
| 13 | Cranston tossed them a penny , and turned to watch as a woman condemned as a scold was led by a beadle up to the stocks in Tower Street , a steel brank fastened tightly around her head . |
| 14 | The axe bludgeoned its life out through the holes in its skull . |
| 15 | Moreover , most galaxies are found in clusters , and we can similarly infer the presence of yet more dark matter in between the galaxies in these clusters by its effect on the motion of the galaxies . |
| 16 | We use to dig er , we use to dig er , we use to dig er , dig the old ice box over with the drinks in it , ice with the orange juice , and gin and tonic and all bloody sorts |
| 17 | I mean I can take a form up to the porters in Goodricke and they 'll give me a key to a minibus . |
| 18 | We go for a walk up into the hills in the afternoon ; me puffing and panting and coughing after Andy as he strides quickly , easily up the rutted forest tracks . |
| 19 | I will be able to bring what is going on here in science back to the children in the classroom , and make them realise that it is not so far away from what they are learning about . |
| 20 | The striping may make it difficult for a predator to select one animal out from the others in a tightly packed herd and equally difficult to judge distances between itself , its intended prey and the rest of the herd . |
| 21 | With mouths open in silent pain , their muscles and ligaments cracking like gunshots , figures began pushing their way out of the graves in an obscene parody of birth . |