Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back down in the valley waited Frau Von Diesel , raven-haired , exotic wife of the inn-keeper . |
| 2 | Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated . |
| 3 | Individual trade unions also reflected this continuous decline throughout the 1920s and early 1930s ; the coal miners ' union declined from 936,653 members in 1921 to 885,789 in 1925 and to 554,015 in 1932 while , for the same dates , respectively , trade union membership in the railway unions fell from 560,875 to 528,764 and 399,184.46 There also appears to have been no let up in the determination to forge a more effective industrial alliance — even though the General Council stopped short of another general strike . |
| 4 | On the page opposite there is a cartoon of Pissed dressed up in a suit lying face down in the gutter clutching a bottle of lager , and Mickey Aspel coming out from under a manhole cover saying ‘ George Best ! |
| 5 | Now add back in the ferry costs per person : |
| 6 | The men and women we read about in the Bible have aspirations and failings with which we easily identify , and even the heroes of Scripture are displayed in the cold light of truth . |
| 7 | Dealing with your children 's friends who pop round in the evening calls for consummate diplomacy and the setting of time limits . |
| 8 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 9 | We all set off in the car to see a lawyer . |
| 10 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
| 11 | If on any occasion you wake up in the night gasping for water , think back to the meal you had and recognise which recipes make you thirsty . |
| 12 | And it might be a good idea to keep a vacuum flask filled with a hot drink by your bedside in case you wake up in the night feeling cold . |
| 13 | I read in that book in the library I told you about that the people who have it , the AIDS sufferers , they wake up in the morning soaking . |
| 14 | I wake up in the morning soaked . |
| 15 | The aims set out in the charter do not , in any case , represent the only form in which scientific progress can be achieved ; other conventions than ‘ mathematical plainness of language ’ could also be appealed to as significant for intellectual endeavour . |
| 16 | Appendix 1 at the end of this chapter gives a number of worked examples using the questions posed in the flowchart and the answers set out in the information contained elsewhere in this section . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the calculations set out in the box suggest that the number of children under the age of 16 living with lone mothers in 1981 and largely or totally dependent on state benefits was about 544000 in England and Wales . |
| 18 | Find out in the article starting on page 42 . |
| 19 | They murmur along in the water driven by gentle contractions . |
| 20 | When you go out in the evening do you always draw the curtains and leave a light on ? |
| 21 | It disregards the net put there to discourage the heron , and I come down in the morning to find a dog-shaped depression in the mesh and all the fish having a nervous breakdown . |
| 22 | ‘ She just fall down in the road screaming . |
| 23 | With the few data presently available , it is difficult to assess whether isolated primary involvement by non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma would be equally responsive to treatment ; our case 1 patient died of complications before any relevant treatment could be undertaken , whereas follow up in the case reported by Berman et al was too short ; only successful local excision of the tumour was reported although ‘ radiotherapy and chemotherapy were recommended to the patient ’ . |
| 24 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |