Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ian Macdonald points out in The New Immigration Law ( Butterworths , 1972 ) : |
| 2 | An exhibition of the work of conceptual photographer Hans Peter Feldmann carried out in the 1960s and 1970s runs parallel to these two exhibitions . |
| 3 | Meredith lunged out in a desperate attempt to save their contents only to find her feet slipping on the melted snow which had been walked in from outside . |
| 4 | England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills . |
| 5 | Rocky came on in the 60th minute but could not affect the game . |
| 6 | There was , however , still time for the occasional screen appearance and as she headed towards graduation from High School Kylie popped up in a mini-series , Fame And Misfortune and another show The Zoo Family . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw Liza Carrow , ’ Eleanor went on in a matter-of-fact way . |
| 8 | Rex looked up in no small surprise . |
| 9 | Oh , I can read the signs as well as anyone , ’ Dora went on in a sudden surge of indignation as Melissa 's eyebrows lifted . |
| 10 | Xanthe ambled in in a tousled yawning state and yesterday 's clothes and flopped into the empty chair beside Filmer . |
| 11 | Xanthe stood up in the narrow space between the bed and the door in Miranda 's room , and said , ‘ You look rather ‘ beatnik ’ . |
| 12 | That " No provision for the economic rehabilitation of Europe , " appeared was a profound weakness J. M. Keynes pointed out in The Economic Consequences of the Peace ( 1919 ) . |
| 13 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 14 | Ruth flopped back in the lounger and studied the vapour trail through half-closed eyes . |
| 15 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 16 | Ruth hung back in the shadowy hallway and peered through the wide arched open front door , her heart beating so wildly she felt sick with it . |
| 17 | Had IBM known back in the early 1980s what it knows now , it would have opened up its VM operating system , which also has its roots in development , but , coming from the button-down IBM world has many more security and management features than Unix started out with . |
| 18 | As we have seen in the section on Education , Wordsworth grew up in a mathematical and scientific age , which still adhered to principles discovered in the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | Sebastian went on in the same vein for quite some minutes . |
| 20 | A friend once told me of a Northen Ireland tour back in the 1970s , by a group of bogus Wombles . |
| 21 | Maggie leans back in the easy chair . |
| 22 | Karen sat down in the soft , dark sand and let the ripples of cold Atlantic water wash round her thighs . |
| 23 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 24 | She stroked him absently , and Mrs Diggory got up in a determined way . |
| 25 | Trailing 2-0 to the Second Division high-flyers , Wycombe bounced back in the last 20 minutes to force a replay with goals from skipper Glyn Creaser and Steve Thompson , a corporal in the RAF . |
| 26 | ‘ We have always been a very tired family , ’ Finch said loftily to Henry , both aged twenty-eight , Finch lying back in a large bed with his cello on his ex-girl friend 's pillow and Henry standing up by the gas fire . |
| 27 | Roy sent off in a blazing helicopter |
| 28 | Morris sprawled back in the one armchair with his whisky , watching them all impassively . |
| 29 | As Hilary Graham pointed out in the first edition of this book : |
| 30 | Marshall set off in a new direction . |