Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard several witnesses say they saw Mr Austin 's car suddenly swerve to the right in the outsidfe lane , then violently to the left and into the front of the bus forcing it off the carriageway . |
| 2 | That there would be little support for the self-appraisal in terms of any provision of time perhaps emphasized the low priority accorded to it . |
| 3 | Just look at the record in the last two years alone . |
| 4 | They just look at the report in the paper and say how on earth was this man fined fifty pounds for this offence . |
| 5 | The EC could absorb the 16.5 million East Germans , if it came to that , more easily than it could the two countries whose applications already lie on the table in Brussels — Austria with her backward deck-cargo of neutrality , and Turkey , with her GDP well below that of Portugal . |
| 6 | Being master of a college does give one an opportunity to work with whatever forces already exist within the college in order to get things moving . |
| 7 | Florals are very much back and I just float about the place in them . |
| 8 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
| 9 | Always ride through the course in your mind before you set off . |
| 10 | They usually deal with the situation in one of two ways — they patronise you and try to take control on the assumption that you must need their guidance to do a decent job ; or they undermine you by making obscene remarks and deliberately causing problems . |
| 11 | Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out . |
| 12 | Determiners , adjectives , and sometimes verbs ( as in the case of Arabic and Swahili ) usually agree with the noun in gender as well as in number . |
| 13 | Unionist reactions to these proposals , published and embodied in the Representation of the People Bill early in 1917 , were very hostile indeed ; it seemed a reckless step to give the biggest ever increase in the franchise in the midst of a major war , to throw away some of the plural votes on which the party had relied , and to receive in return a redistribution that could bring almost anything . |
| 14 | Consumer goals which were never contemplated by the peasantry in the past , now appear on the screen in their own homes and villages . |
| 15 | It helps that Preston relies on the musical conviction of his playing and his impeccable technique to get his message across ; thankfully we are spared any of the acts of registrative trickery , especially in the C major Toccata , which lesser organists so often impose on the music in a feeble attempt to inject artificial stimulants into their performances . |
| 16 | The men it was meant for now rush into the road in front of her , one of them vaulting straight over the taxi bonnet as Rainbow bangs on the brakes . |
| 17 | Some of them hardly bat an eyelid , but explain that quails do migrate over the Sinai peninsula , and that they often settle on the ground in large numbers and can be caught very easily . |
| 18 | These troublesome parasites , which now thrive throughout the year in centrally-heated homes provided that the humidity level is not too low , can bite people as well as dogs and cats . |
| 19 | Write down examples of previous relationships that have followed similar patterns to the one that you now have with the addict in your life . |
| 20 | Basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas appear predominantly on exposed areas of the head and neck , while in Caucasians , malignant melanomas frequently appear on the back in both men and women and also on the legs in women . |
| 21 | The most practical idea is to have a slight well let into the floor in front of the door and to fill it with coconut matting . |
| 22 | You may input an unlimited number of addresses which may be called up by name , town , any of two user-defined fields or simply scroll through the list in ‘ Rolodex ’ fashion . |
| 23 | You may input an unlimited number of addresses which may be called up by name , town , any of two user-defined fields or simply scroll through the list in ‘ Rolodex ’ fashion . |
| 24 | Please pray for the situation in Yugoslavia and also in Thailand . |
| 25 | Please pray for the situation in Yugoslavia . |
| 26 | Enter by the porter 's lodge ; if no one is there go to the door in the first courtyard on the left and someone is bound to come to your aid . |
| 27 | 7 October , 1814 JOHN WILSON CROKER to the Secretary of the Wellington Fund : ‘ I quite agree with the Committee in its predilection for a pillar . |
| 28 | As you collected each one , you read out the name and amount — if it was 3/6 you had to say three shillings and sixpence — no short cuts for Daniel — then sign for the money in the large Parish Account Book . |
| 29 | ‘ I also remember that some of us were individually handed pigeons that we were meant to cradle in our hands and then throw into the air in the centre-circle . |
| 30 | This may not strike some of you as unusual but in my area silver coins rarely come from the ground in their natural colour ; they are usually black or slightly grey . |