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 . |