Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The full results of this strategy should show through in the 1989 profit figures . |
| 2 | Once we have incorporated the Maastricht treaty into our law — presumably , as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said , in the first Session of the new Parliament — we must press on in the second half of 1992 , when we have the presidency of the Community , to set out more clearly our vision of a common European future . |
| 3 | If so , HP could hit the full-motion video market long before its competitors and , with NT in tow , might wind up in the thick of the battle for dominance in the next wave of PCs . |
| 4 | The way to overcome this is to sail slightly high of your intended course and you 'll end up in the right place . |
| 5 | Yes , you can see when the ball goes off , then you 'll end up in the far corner . |
| 6 | He 'll end up in the same place as the last bloke and he 's still there . |
| 7 | It was merely a figure of speech ; you need have no fear that I 'll creep along in the early hours to take advantage of your defenceless body . ’ |
| 8 | Right well I 'll start today if you do n't mind and we 'll go round in the normal way erm when we come to Pat . |
| 9 | Oh well we 'll go back in the other room . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , it would be fairer and franker of the SNBTS to mention in its information leaflets and at its collection centres that a donor 's blood might end up in the private sector . |
| 11 | If I if I do n't know the answer I 'll find out in the interim period and let you know at the end of the session . |
| 12 | The figure in the seat was human , as far as he could make out in the murky light , but there was something about the awkward way it was sprawled in the chair that made him glad he could n't see it any clearer . |
| 13 | Dexter pressed his nose against the grid of cold metal but all he could make out in the shadowy interior was a counter and the shimmer of clothes hung up in plastic bags . |
| 14 | In 1970 — if you were eighteen and could lay your hands on a little ready money — it was almost de rigueur to travel overland to Greece where , in an idyllic island setting , you could hang out in the coolest way imaginable with amiable drug-dealers and liberated chicks . |
| 15 | It was a worry when we did n't get a pension and when it did come , it alleviated things , but we know it could run out in the New Year . |
| 16 | Leith snapped angrily — and realised she could go on in the same vein until she was blue in the face and it still would n't dent him . |
| 17 | In case you had n't noticed , Ulster 's John Reid is having a barnstorming season and he could end up in the top four in the championship with over 100 winners . |
| 18 | In case you had n't noticed , Ulster 's John Reid is having a barnstorming season and he could end up in the top four in the championship with over 100 winners . |
| 19 | ‘ We could end up in the lunatic situation of the TDC having to pull it down to make way for a new development . ’ |
| 20 | BE good to your secretary or you could end up in the worst seats on business flights and be booked into lousy hotels . |
| 21 | He was at Ibrox in 1971 when 66 fans died in a crush on the steps of the stadium ; in September 1980 , he had to watch the pathetically outmatched Welsh bantam-weight Johnny Owen die at the hands of Lupe Pintor , after writing beforehand ‘ this fight could end up in the intensive care unit ’ ; and he saw the heart-bursting tension of a World Cup qualifying match kill the man with whom he had an almost filial relationship , the Celtic and Scottish national football manager , Jock Stein . |
| 22 | More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . ) |
| 23 | In the mornings I used to sit out in the warm sun of our terrace and read the travellers ' descriptions of the Delhi they knew from their visits at the very apex of the Mughal Empire . |
| 24 | ‘ I used to mess about in the third and fourth forms , but now I do n't … |
| 25 | How 're yuh gon na keep'em down on the farm , after they 've seen Paree , they used to sing back in the 1920s . |
| 26 | And not nearly as much as we used to get back in the good old days , when alien abductions were all the rage . |
| 27 | This would show up in the sedimentary and stratigraphic evidence . |
| 28 | I was hoping that Vecchi would show up in the near future and save everybody a lot of headaches . |
| 29 | Graphical , Paper and Media Union national officer John Mitchell , whose members joined the march , said temporary government loans to Maxwell pensioners would run out in the New Year . |
| 30 | Another former Conservative Cabinet minister , David Howell , chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee , praised the Budget as a ‘ balanced and prudent ’ statement which would pay off in the long term . |