Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS OPPOSITION to the palace coup in Peru mounts inside and outside the country , it seems President Alberto Fujimori , by turning the guns of dictatorship against his own government , has succeeded only in shooting himself in the foot . |
| 2 | The East Germans were not set on abolishing the distinction between town and country , just perhaps on smothering it in a pall of acidic smoke and rain . |
| 3 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 4 | Do not hesitate to throw a card away after rewriting it in a better form . |
| 5 | Well you 're very lucky cos so , you might have easily of had nobody in the family |
| 6 | Anyway a plant , we think , for bigger gardens but if you can get away with growing it in a small space where cutting it back by all means do because it is quite a pretty thing . |
| 7 | Either issue all the discs separately before offering them in a boxed set , or issue the boxed set first and then issue the discs separately : that is the only fair and honest way of marketing complete sets . |
| 8 | Indeed , I have blundered straight away by placing them in a context of the 1960s and 1970s , as though in 1970 they stopped ! |
| 9 | It is always wise to examine a flower very carefully before placing it in the blotting paper as if it contains any tiny insects they will think they are being provided with a picnic lunch and eat their way through the contents of your press ! |
| 10 | Had he done wrong in inviting her in the first place ? |
| 11 | There was ‘ Pooper Scooper ’ Watkins , a young woman who insisted not only on picking up her dog 's faeces with a see-through plastic glove , but also on waving it in the faces of passers-by in order to emphasize her ecological soundness . |
| 12 | Answer : You can make all the programs that you always want start automatically by placing them in a special group in the Program Manager called Startup . |
| 13 | He had picked up one of the pups and examined it roughly before replacing it in the cardboard box with the others . |
| 14 | Afterwards Leconte , who only resumed training a week ago after injuring himself in the Paris Open , admitted he was surprised at the way Ferreira had fallen to pieces . |
| 15 | I think the game I think the game has done well in tackling that problem but I do n't think we as a society have done very well in tackling it in the country at large . |
| 16 | If her personality tends to be an obsessive one — if she is excessively devoted to tidiness and perfect order in every part of her life and home , a great maker of ‘ lists ’ for everything and a habitual ‘ double-checker ’ in all her activities — you may find that although she is grieving deeply , she may throw herself with remarkable zeal into the business of ‘ tidying up ’ her husband 's financial affairs and concentrating even more strongly on getting everything in the house cleaned and polished ; for this is the method used by most people who are inclined to be obsessional , to control their anxiety . |
| 17 | He had fired at Bernard Newton , 67 , and reloaded twice before shooting him in the head with his fourth cartridge . |
| 18 | If you work very hard at making somebody in a record company come and see you , that is probably as good a way as any to get some indication of your music 's commercial potential . |
| 19 | She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " . |
| 20 | It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ . |
| 21 | And I left it on the side instead of leaving it in the grill . |
| 22 | ‘ Can I come in instead of discussing it in the corridor ? ’ |
| 23 | In 1682 a printer gave a boost to cannibalism by substituting ‘ if the latter husband ate her ’ instead of hate her in the verses on the Mosaic law of divorce at Deuteronomy xxiv.3 . |
| 24 | Instead of putting them in the Credit Card Centre 's outgoing mail — they were all addressed to ‘ problem ’ areas — Steve called in the Fraud Section who made sure they were sent registered mail in plain envelopes . |
| 25 | Instead of putting it in the power of the creditor to prevent his debtor from obtaining his liberty on giving up his all , it vested the right of a negative in the judges in open court , where it was more just to place it than to allow it to remain in the power of the creditor who , from motives of resentment , was less likely to decide impartially in his own cause . |
| 26 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 27 | Three minutes into the second-half the non-Leaguers ' obligatory fireman , Mottashed , instead of shooting himself in the foot , set fire to himself with a jittery own goal and Loram shortly made it 3-1 , deader than dead . |
| 28 | Instead of shooting ourselves in the foot our people are asking , where does the fi fight start ? |
| 29 | Apart from involving herself in the thick of the action , Rosemary spends a lot of time giving public talks , raising funds for both the Jubilee Sailing Trust and the training of dogs for the Hearing Dogs for the Deaf scheme . |
| 30 | I am looking forward to seeing him in the French Open and hopefully he will win it this year ! |