Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] in the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he might he better off in the works office ? |
| 2 | You would be better off in the personnel department . |
| 3 | so they 're probably better off in the sweat shop any way |
| 4 | ‘ Early on in the State Department , we took to calling him the rent-a-colonel , in tribute to his ability to simultaneously milk the antagonistic intelligence services of Cuba and the US , ’ said Mr Francis McNeill , a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs . |
| 5 | It would appear to be the case that , for this kind of effect to take place , the word 's function must be made available to the syntactic and semantic processes very early on in the access process . |
| 6 | Some groups ( for example people with long-term rheumatoid arthritis ) typically experience a progressive deterioration which usually starts fairly early on in the disability career . |
| 7 | Ruth tucked herself further down in the wicker chair and hoisted up her cotton skirt to expose her long legs to the heat of the sun . |
| 8 | and bought the York stone cupboard all the way back in the wheel barrow and put it in , made , pack it all up and made to look . |
| 9 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 10 | I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard . |
| 11 | Later on in the station canteen he had everyone hanging on his words . |
| 12 | Yet , I always conclude , it might have seemed strange and unnatural to have shown too much feeling ; strange , and perhaps embarrassing and out of order , I being somewhat far down in the family hierarchy . |
| 13 | Only , I wish I had ever shown some sign of affection ; I wish I had perhaps written to her — even if only a card ( and even though I was rather far down in the family hierarchy ) . |
| 14 | This takes place mainly up in the forest canopy , and so is almost impossible to film from the ground . |
| 15 | Watching their efforts on Saturday was former Scotland B prop , George Graham , who revealed that he is now back in the Carlisle side after injury , but could be on the move to a bigger rugby league team . |
| 16 | I started giving lessons to more pupils , which sometimes involved cycling to houses far out in the country side . |
| 17 | ABOVE , RIGHT Regular cleaning of the upper part of the ear is recommended , and may help to prevent infections from becoming established lower down in the ear canal . |
| 18 | Windows high up in the north wall gave a diffused light . |
| 19 | Erm thank you Mr Chairman , high up in the Cardiganshire coast near , on the trunk road between and where the population is the sparsest in Wales and certainly a . |
| 20 | Geyer ca n't play again in in the Sydney competition anyway until next March — and a spell in England is the obvious alternative . |
| 21 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 22 | So , in my experience certainly down in the Sussex area , there 's , there 's great opportunity for people who have something worthwhile saying , who understand how to repackage what they 're saying in such a way that it will keep local radio audiences listening , and who are prepared to learn the minimum techniques and skills necessary to come across reasonably well . |