Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 4 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 5 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 6 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 7 | I recited the names of some relations and friends , and my mother wrote them down in a businesslike fashion until I ran out of ideas . |
| 8 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 9 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 10 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 11 | All right , I was Marius ’ personal assistant and there 's no reason to assume that Nigel would want to take me over in the same role . |
| 12 | Bruce 's far lighter cavalry cut them off in a flanking movement . |
| 13 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There is no way of standing them off in the old fashion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
| 18 | We have teamed up with Phonogram records to fly you and a guest to the States and put you up in a swanky hotel for a week 's luxury holiday . |
| 19 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 20 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 21 | A word of caution at this point : do not list specific skills that you do not have unless you feel that the lack of these skills is holding you back in a particular area . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you back in the first person ? ’ |
| 23 | It 's us who untied you back in the Emerald Suite . |
| 24 | They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands . |
| 25 | The better nurserymen pride themselves on their packing , so much so that they often advise you to leave the plants in the packing when planting is delayed , and to lay them up in a cool garage or shed . |
| 26 | She saw him crumple them up in a sudden burst of impatience , and fling them across the parade . |
| 27 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 30 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |