Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ca n't do the ship cos it wi , got to go on the bench in the garage . |
| 2 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 3 | It is hard to imagine the average builder , unskilled in the repair of old buildings , recognising the significance of the two cat skeletons and the pile of old clothes that the Eastons found tucked behind the chimney in the old kitchen . |
| 4 | The Doctor tried to communicate with the slave in English , but received no response . |
| 5 | Fashanu , included in the squad for today 's boxing day clash with Wimbledon 's Selhurst Park landlords , Crystal Palace , last night promised to lead from the front in the club 's fight against relegation . |
| 6 | Railwaymen who worked in the area had been so overcome by a feeling of evil that pervaded a particular location that they refused to work the night-shift that involved going near the place in question . |
| 7 | Alan Fiers , 52 , who headed the CIA 's Central American Task Force in 1984-88 , reached a plea bargain arrangement with Walsh whereby he promised to co-operate with the investigation in return for pleading guilty to lesser charges . |
| 8 | The hotel tried to rely upon the notice in guest 's room as excluding their liability for the loss . |
| 9 | Marshal Piłsudski ordered the Polish destroyer Wicher to greet , salute and escort the British as if the Accord were still in effect , and Tadeusz Morgenstern , the commander of the destroyer , was instructed that if the Danzig authorities insulted the Polish flag or tried to interfere with the visit in any way , he was to bombard designated targets in the city centre . |
| 10 | Finally Don Marco came rattling down the track in his battered Fiat and shook Haverford enthusiastically by the hand , ignoring the rest of the family . |
| 11 | There he had stared in amazement as Durkin came chugging up the drive in a cloud of black smoke , driving that wonder of the age , an automobile . |
| 12 | It had echoed after she 'd left him , as she 'd turned into the archway in the wall and passed through the shrubbery of azaleas and magnolias and tree mallows , as she 'd passed through the drawing-room and the hall . |
| 13 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 14 | The Turbo 30 came boxed with the handle in four parts , and the grass box in two , and was easy to assemble . |
| 15 | At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him . |
| 16 | Jenny came sidling into the room in a slinky dress of pistachio green and sugar pink in a harlequin print . |
| 17 | The Typical Chinese Dishes with plenty of good hot coffee on top of them seemed to combine with the heating in the place to make me sleepy . |
| 18 | My first-ever story for a national magazine was about another of my seminal Ali experiences — a sparring session I 'd had with the Champ in 1975 , when , because of his influence , I was trying to make a living as a kickboxer . |
| 19 | Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away . |
| 20 | He advised finishing with the architect in Manchester and " getting a local man in " . |
| 21 | The second man , who was tall and lean , came running from the glade in which the car was parked . |
| 22 | Donna told her sister what had happened in Ireland , the information she 'd accumulated about The Hell Fire Club and also what she 'd found in the library in Edinburgh . |
| 23 | As she spoke , the tractor came snorting into the yard in a cloud of fumes with the trailer , piled high with logs , rattling and bumping behind it . |
| 24 | A glass I 'd left in the kitchen in the morning was on the bedside table — with a drop of wine in it . |
| 25 | She 'd lived in the apartment in the fashionable Latin Quarter for four years , with her wealthy American boyfriend , Richard Knorr . |
| 26 | Thus he was a supernumerary stoker on a tramp steamer ( how Thesiger hated appearing before the ambassador in Constantinople in his flannels when His Excellency cabled the boat with an invitation ) . |
| 27 | Mr Graham Crowley says the North-East stands out as an area that is creating opportunities for artists and many craft people encouraged to move to the region in readiness for Arts ‘ 96 . |
| 28 | It may also be that such service would be regarded as valid on the ground that it amounted to service on the defendant in accordance with the law of the country in which service is effected . |
| 29 | The Chronicle A ( s.a. 685 ) says that Caedwalla began to contend for the kingship in 685 , but it was not until 686 that he established himself as king over the western Saxons . |
| 30 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |