Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean unfortunately the authority in days gone by has benefited from the scheme in the sense that the extra , extra money in service in truth , the revenue was there , erm , the chickens have come home to roost in the sense that it 's , the tables have turned the other way , and I mean , gone are the days where , when we 're least worried out that impact that , that , that much more of our er , of our budget . |
| 2 | Waking in our bed one morning , we 'll hear a chorus of trills and cheeps ; fun has come back to cluster in the branches of the tree outside our window . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 4 | Her family doctor has decided not to take in the part Government 's health reforms , and become a fund-holder . |
| 5 | Another interesting , although minority , opinion was expressed by staff of an LEA which had decided not to participate in the SCDC Arts in Schools Project . |
| 6 | It is the Commission , for example , which quite overtly decided not to intervene in the decision to build a road through Twyford Down in Hampshire , but which apparently will continue to challenge the plans for an East London river crossing at Oxleas Wood , as well as proposals by British Petroleum for a gas terminal at Falkirk . |
| 7 | But he wants all the facts to be presented to the committee before a corporate decision is made not to invest in the UK . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes the numbers are sufficient to precipitate Type I disease in calves 3-4 weeks after they are turned out to graze in the spring . |
| 9 | He felt an overwhelming desire for a cigarette , but Ivy was a non-smoker and he had agreed not to smoke in the car . |
| 10 | She was given a parasol against the sun and when she had been shown how to recline in the litter , six dark-faced bearers lifted her up and began trotting barefoot through the city with guards running before and behind . |
| 11 | It is used primarily to assist in the UK ‘ Grand Challenge ’ , a government initiative designed to have computers solve some of the fundamental problems in physics and engineering . |
| 12 | The Secretary-General was asked to organize an air bridge for food aid as a matter of urgency , and all parties and factions were called on to co-operate in the deployment of UN security personnel . |
| 13 | As late as 1792 , Sir Robert Ainslie , Murray 's successor , complained that by not being called on to mediate in the peace negotiations which had just produced the Russo-Turkish treaty of Jassy he had lost the opportunity to make about £30,000 in presents from both sides , though this was probably a great exaggeration . |
| 14 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |
| 15 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 16 | After their first encounter , the couple began seeing one another regularly , but the romance fizzled out after Mr Clinton returned to America , believing he had been called up to fight in the Vietnam war . |
| 17 | This group of NFL stalwarts were in Scotland as part of the World Partnership programme which has been set up to assist in the development of American football at amateur level in Europe . |
| 18 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
| 19 | I have found how to bend in the middle . |
| 20 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 21 | Since the advent of Felicity , she had gone up to sleep in the attic — an arrangement she preferred , as she had absolute privacy up there , and as luck would have it , there was an electric fire , so that she could use it as a study . |
| 22 | Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness . |
| 23 | The pair were pitched together to play in the opening two rounds , and while Couples collapsed with a 77 , Faldo reduced their duel in the sun to a calculated ambush . |
| 24 | And , since he took as starting points the avoidance of waste and of idleness , he argued : let care be taken not to leave in the instance of any individual whatever the smallest fragment of ability unemployed . " |
| 25 | Secondly the allowance for inflation was based on a three per cent price increase and because of the very competitive nature of the prices we receive for maintenance work a sum of two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be carried forward into next year from this allowance , in other words the real purchasing power of the budget have been maintained and two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be put aside to stand in the future . |
| 26 | ‘ In the primary-school playground , of course , when I was singled out to stand in the centre of a ring while a dozen sweet-faced little girls danced round me chanting ‘ Shannon 's dad 's a robber . ’ ' |
| 27 | All of the grooms , except one who was asleep on some hay bales , had chosen not to sit in the car with their charges , and I imagined it was because of Leslie Brown 's daunting presence : racing lads on the whole felt a companionable devotion to their horses , and I would have expected more of them to be sitting on the hay bales during the day . |
| 28 | The degradation of many soils such as those in East Anglia , England , to the extent that they are scarcely more than a physical retention medium for chemical fertiliser and moisture ( Kirkby 1980 ) , does not have the same social and economic impact as degradation of soils where the land users do not have , and may be predicted not to have in the future , the resources to make good the degradation by the application of massive doses of fertiliser ( see also Heathcote 1980 , Rennie 1982 ) . |