Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 The fifteenth hole is short but dangerous ; its plateau green is ringed by bunkers at the front and sides and the trees press in at the back in a claustrophobic way — a nightmarish hole if you are playing badly .
2 But there was n't normally storage problems , normally had spare , seep out of the ground in , so we 'll be alright .
3 That you can carry heavy bags and bend down without a twinge in the back ?
4 We walk down to the shore in the warm drizzling rain and wait at the quayside .
5 Probably shrivel up like a cactus in a microwave .
6 Eight-inch ( 20 cm ) flying lizards that live in the forests of Sumatra , Java and Borneo can make glides of up to 66 ft ( 20 m ) on membranes supported by elongated ribs that spread out from the body in flight .
7 Once the fry have hatched , both parents remain on guard , leading the fry out of the cave in a school to feed , and returning them to the safety of the cave at night .
8 Quinn woke at six , washed and shaved with the new toiletries he had bought in the High Street the previous day , had a light supper and chanced the two-hundred-yard walk back to the phone-booth in Chiltern Street at ten to eight .
9 And that was exactly my remedy for him earlier this year when , face down on a bench in Augusta 's locker-room , Olazabal shielded the grief of failure in the US Masters .
10 Now detectives are trying to unravel the mystery of how he came to be found face down in a ditch in a plantation on Scotston Farm , Auchterhouse , nearly eight miles from his home on the Ardler estate in Dundee .
11 They career off into the future in a way that is , in one sense , pointless and futile , in another sense progressive and endlessly fascinating to us , the observers .
12 There is just time to lift the curtain and peep out at the scene in the street , then to dash upstairs , stand on the bathroom stool and see what the picture is like from that angle .
13 ‘ They said I 'd just got 50-60 years wear out of the knee in 15 years . ’
14 Watch out for a change in publication dates for Courtauld News .
15 Watch out for a display in Chambers Street on Leith Race Prizes .
16 Look out for a circular in the 146 Series which will be issued shortly .
17 They are maybe five or six gunmen who jump out in the road in front of the car and start firing shots . ’
18 Two Village respondents stand out from the rest in their disagreement with the arguments I have summarised .
19 A. Look back at the information in sections 2 and 3 , pages 71–74 .
20 Rise straight back up through the strength in your thighs .
21 The make up of the house in Street .
22 Questions like : ‘ Mummy , who was Immanuel Kant ? ’ or , ‘ Daddy , what were Adam Smith 's economic theories ? ’ always crop up during a crisis in the kitchen .
23 We have to forget about our prejudices , and get on with the task in hand … let's do it !
24 But they are true professionals who get on with the task in a methodical manner , no matter what the circumstances .
25 Providing that the forms get down to the computer in London on time
26 Set off along the road in cloud but the sun soon broke through .
27 When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers .
28 When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air .
29 When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away .
30 Almost as hard to credit , the figure for the number of nuclear explosions set off by the French in the Pacific since 1975 was said to be 52 .
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