Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lindsay Crosby : 51 , youngest son of the singer Bing Crosby , found dead in his Los Angeles home after apparently shooting himself in the head with a smallbore rifle . |
| 2 | We want to go that step further and win the Bledisloe Cup after narrowly missing it in the Second Test against the All Blacks last year ’ , he said . |
| 3 | How about just keeping it in the bag ? |
| 4 | These are the products of a technological mastery untempered by a political imagination capable of either managing it in the interest of the planet , or of inventing a machinery capable of arbitrating between differences of interest without condoning the annihilation of one side or the other . |
| 5 | Add to that a predilection to falling off buses because you think you see Him on every corner , in every crowd , at every window , and the inevitability of actually seeing Him in the off-licence when you were n't expecting to , and feeling your entire stomach lurch forward involuntarily like waking from a dream of falling . |
| 6 | He and his friends would take us , they said , safely to the edge of the airport and from there point us in the right direction . |
| 7 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 8 | Anyway , I went into it to basically find who in the fuck I was , and what it comes down to is having a wank every five minutes of every day . |
| 9 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 10 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 11 | With respect to BACKUP , the safest way to handle the use of pseudo-devices , especially if you may be mixing saves and restores on physical devices and pseudo-devices , is to always place yourself in the [ 000000 ] directory ( whether it physically exists , or is only a notional location , as is the case with a pseudo-device ) and use the syntax [ * … ] |
| 12 | And he had begged my mother not to ever put me in the bank . |
| 13 | Subjects were asked to continue describing different junctions until no more stood out in their memory but not to attempt to recall all the junctions , nor to deliberately recall them in the order they had been driven through . |
| 14 | Erm should I at least be prepared to again stick something in the newsletter about . |
| 15 | Since his surplus stock may be in keen demand he may not be able to supply you — but he can at least point you in the right direction by suggesting alternative sources , ones that have proved themselves so far as he is concerned . |
| 16 | ‘ Frank has to prove himself by really beating someone in the top ten . |