Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 2 | Worst of all , some tiles are inaccessible without forming a bridge with others — think on your toes and pair them off in the right order , or it 's back to the beginning . |
| 3 | There is no way of standing them off in the old fashion . |
| 4 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 5 | It 's us who untied you back in the Emerald Suite . |
| 6 | They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands . |
| 7 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 8 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 9 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 10 | She stopped for a moment , then said suddenly , ‘ Let's look them up in the veterinary register and see roughly how old they are , judging from the year they qualified . ’ |
| 11 | The moment we put them back in the open spaces where they belong , in the social life they intuitively understand , horses use not only their innate behaviour but also their intelligent adaptability to its fullest . |
| 12 | IRENE Boyd took the minutes when our branch held a staff meeting and typed them out in the following verse : |
| 13 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 14 | And you know , so often you and I , we have questions that we want to bring to the Lord , if only was here in person , if only we could sit him down in the front room , how many things we would have to ask of him ! |
| 15 | Little Chef tracked her down in the pink dusk at the bottom of the garden , with her arms round an apple tree , sobbing her heart out . |
| 16 | Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | The Goblins wait until the enemy are close by , and then push the Fanatic out towards the foe , giving him a good shove to start him off in the right direction . |
| 18 | Nutty stopped Midnight and brought him into the centre and Nails thought he was going to get a rest , but she immediately sent him off in the other direction . |
| 19 | Any way , Aunt Bessie brought her up in the little house built by her husband and brother-in-law which was near to South Stainmore . |
| 20 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 21 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
| 22 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 23 | I see him back in the long term as county captain . |
| 24 | If he loses I hope he would accept it with equal good grace and if he wins I will be a good loser and help him out in the general election . ’ |
| 25 | Get him out in the fresh air as much as you can cos |
| 26 | ‘ Who in hell 's name are you ? ’ he asked amiably , still unable to make her out in the thick shade of an ivy-infested oak . |
| 27 | No afterwards she 's going to switch it on in the common room . |
| 28 | What I want you to do is try and hold on to it in your brain then when I 've finished write it down in the appropriate box and see if you can hold on to it long enough to do that . |
| 29 | To apply for supplementary pension get leaflet SB 1 from the post office , fill in your name and address , sign it and send it off in the pre-paid envelope . |
| 30 | Perhaps he just picked it up in the right place . |