Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 2 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 3 | Having blown his lunch , he then strolled back on set and got on with the matter in hand . |
| 4 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 5 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 6 | They cared little for the landscape in which they worked . |
| 7 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 8 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 9 | It has long been established that a defendant may be required to discover documents under his control but situated abroad ; in the early cases , the fact that relevant documents were in Calcutta or in Tobago led merely to an extension in the time allowed for their production . |
| 10 | Having referred to the apparently absolute rule , the tribunal concluded : ‘ Nevertheless our duty is to apply the tests laid down in the Act in Section 24 ( 6 ) and to take the Code of Practice into account . |
| 11 | Article 67 , which is concerned with the free movement of capital , differs from the other ‘ freedoms ’ laid down by the treaty in that it is not drafted in absolute terms . |
| 12 | In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy . |
| 13 | By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes . |
| 14 | That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it . |
| 15 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |
| 16 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
| 17 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 18 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 19 | Suddenly , Grace crumpled on to the bed in a torrent of tears so violent and overwhelming that Miranda stopped crying at once . |
| 20 | Her hips moved slowly to a beat in the music only she seemed to hear . |
| 21 | He positioned his head , made a gesture with his hand , the axe swirled again , his body jerked , the head bounced on to the scaffold in a great spurt of scarlet . |
| 22 | The additional diabatic cooling occurred predominantly through a decrease in solar absorption by ozone . |
| 23 | The tray in the human 's hands crashed on to the floor in front of it . |
| 24 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
| 25 | As I stood on the walkway , the water level reached above my knees , and I waded along beside the wall in the direction of the lower door and the river . |
| 26 | When they dined together at the Perroquet in March 1951 , they talked among other things about ‘ British painting and what had happened to it since the high hopes of the war ’ . |
| 27 | Rex took a deep breath , sprang out from hiding and drew down upon the boy in the business suit . |
| 28 | His gaze dropped to her breasts and she shrivelled inside at the contempt in his tone . |
| 29 | Scotland Yard said shots were fired at anti-terrorist squad detectives and a tactical firearms unit as they moved in on a house in Stoke Newington , north London . |
| 30 | I took the ferry back to Picton , drove to Christchurch , and moved in to the flat in the university Hall of Residence which had been reserved for me . |