Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When this wall-nosed behemoth travels at speed through Kent , leaves get blown off trees in East Sussex .
2 In the same way , external stimuli become incorporated into dreams in order to reduce their arousing effect .
3 Putting on weight as fat deposits — food and fuel for the long journey ahead — their entire bodies become covered with mucus in preparation for the miles of slithering travel .
4 I c I , I tell this story cos I think it illustrates it very much , I expect most of you have er if you have n't been you 've heard of Dale in Derbyshire , and it 's this river with a , a lovely walk either side of the river , you walk along the side and then you come to the point where there 's a bend in the river and there 's these gorgeous great enormous stepping stones .
5 You 've heard from friends in Kuwait recently ?
6 And you 've heard from Ken in respect of one seven six , he 's not prepared to withdraw , so therefore the C E C are recommending opposition .
7 As we 've seen with Terry in Brookside .
8 That 's why I 've applied for school in September .
9 You wan na see the games they 've got for sale in London at Christmas and I have n't .
10 If a B T employee did disclose information against all their training and against the rules that we 've got in place in B T , then we would obviously take that very seriously indeed and erm dismissal would no doubt follow if it was found that th the person had disclosed information .
11 I think we put the erm , report and the guarantee which we 've had from Rentakil in solicitor 's hands , and he is in the process of contacting Rentakil .
12 If this new regulation comes through they 'll be part of a new seat but if in fact they do n't have this regulation come into effect they 'll belong to another s and when you 've had in fact in Southend say the lowest recorded percentage voting of any constituency in England at the last Euro elections I think it 's terrible important we should in fact explain to people whether this is likely to happen .
13 Gypsies who 've camped on land in Hereford for generations years with the farmer 's permission .
14 And we 've progressed to journeys in Daimlers
15 And when I go to Wales for a holiday and there are Welshmen , they 're just as good as I am , some can sing so much nicer , and I 've worked with Scotsmen in engineering factories , and there 's no better engineers than Scotsmen , but they do n't necessarily call them British .
16 Foliage gleaning birds pick insects off the leaves ; bark-investigators probe with sharp beaks into cracks ; ground-feeders scavenge for caterpillars which have dropped from trees in order to pupate .
17 ‘ Perhaps , ’ I can hear my readers saying , ‘ but you can not possibly suppose that all the totalitarian states which have come into existence in times ancient and modern have been the result of faulty socialization and nothing more . ’
18 The supposition that Theunis — or maybe his father — invented the name Krankoor shortly before emigrating comes from the fact that no surviving Krankoors , nor records of such a family , have come to light in Holland ; two Crankos live in The Hague but they are recent arrivals from South Africa .
19 In the present Chapter I have written of movements in theory in the present tense , whereas what is ideally required is something grammatically subtler — perhaps there are languages where it exists — like a special tense in which the present extends back to include actions or events that are already in the recent past .
20 Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors .
21 As we have seen in detail in Chapters 2 and 3 , the budget is the financial plan against which financial out-turns must be compared to effect control .
22 For Paul , that offering is made up of the lives of the many Gentiles who have turned to faith in God .
23 Hence we have moved from modernism in content to modernism in form .
24 Others have embarked on careers in teaching ( at all levels ) , and a good few now work in journalism and the mass media .
25 Cases of pulmonary haemorrhage have occurred in workers in factories producing these substances .
26 The killers of Brazilian rain forest activist Chico Mendes have escaped from prison in Rio Branco .
27 Among the antelope these include gazelle species that have adapted to life in India .
28 This development is undoubtedly due to the greater accessibility that personal computers have brought to computing in terms of cost , ease of use and reduced dependence on others .
29 Three people have gone on trial in connection with the discovery of a multi-million pound drugs factory .
30 Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children .
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