Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 2 | If Jitters did n't have a wife and kids back in the old country — which , come to think of it , he probably did n't these days — he might just have dragged Fat Old Stinky Juanita up before the padre and tied the old knot . |
| 3 | These specialised workers , known to entomologists as repletes , never leave the nest but inhabit galleries six feet down in the red earth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 6 | He had a finger in several pies as well ( which Moroccan has n't ? ) but he also had a dream — of doing something with visitors up in the unknown peaks above Taroudant . |
| 7 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 10 | The structure of any model of the type described above can be captured in the general formulation where is all the autonomous elements and collects together all the coefficients on in the specified model ; i.e. , in the case presented above . |
| 11 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 12 | It is just past midnight and many of the cadets from Old College are guarding well-concealed patrol bases in remote valleys and woods up in the Welsh hills near Sennybridge . |
| 13 | Yes , but er I think that erm , before we champion er , or back er people like Mr Yeltsin and say that they rep represent progressive forces , I 'd like to be clear about where those forces see themselves going , because I do n't see nationalism as a progressive force in the er , in the last decade of the twentieth century , I think we need to be concentrating on those people who are trying to build a new international order rather than splitting things up in the Soviet Union in a way which may be catastrophic . |
| 14 | I have n't shifted them , i n't it a mucky day ? considering all that frost and cold you 've got a lot of families out in the front door there ai n't we ? have you got any tapes of ours not finished off ? , or have we got to start a new one ? |
| 15 | All the main banks stress that they do not want to boss firms around in the German style , nor do they want to send in managers or directors . |
| 16 | It is simply something that must be done ; and , in the same way , I had to get rid of some woman , tip the scales back in the other direction . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Like the ornithologist who has to reach an impossibly remote island by a certain day in the rainy season only to find it overflowing with ornithologists from all over the world choking the woodland tracks with cameras and tripods , trying to catch a fleeting glimpse of a small bird as it hops about in the dripping undergrowth . |
| 19 | There were a few small birds around in the hazel branches but that was all . |
| 20 | What are the science-related issues that the public will have to make decisions on in the near future ? |
| 21 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 22 | Cos we had other people concerned with the stores down in the head office as well , the buyers and . |
| 23 | When Aldrich handed it to him there were only three crossings out in the whole thing . |
| 24 | But again they are an ancient group with ancestors back in the Carboniferous forest , a melting pot for plant evolution . |
| 25 | Lurking four rows back in the Conservative backbenches , Mr Lamont was in a perfect position to stab the Premier in the back , and then twist the knife . |
| 26 | No , the only buggers Sam Snort has any time for are the boys down in the gay bars who have affectively tendered their resignation from the Snortian fields of romantic endeavour . |
| 27 | At 3600 m on Mount Erebus , Ross Island , where no surface vegetation was apparent , Janetschek ( 1963 ) recorded bacteria , blue-green algae and microfungi a few centimetres down in the volcanically-warmed soil . |
| 28 | Bro Cernyw Aelwyd has over the years won in almost all sections of the Urdd 's activities , from Eisteddfod competitions to darts , pool , five-a-side football and twice runners up in the national quiz competition . |
| 29 | As the water piles up in the western Pacific , it then becomes both warmer and more dilute . |
| 30 | The Palestinian guerrillas would squat behind their outposts of earth and rocks up in the cold air among the fir trees , cradling their rocket-propelled grenades and announcing to us that the Syrians would not be permitted to move one more metre — not one more inch — along the highway to Beirut . |