Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I remember that time when the tent blew down in the snowstorm and his sleeping bag went in the slush . |
| 2 | I do n't really understand it but the the apprentice went down in the pit of course and the older man was above and they worked this saw all this sawdust was coming |
| 3 | The bike shot up in the air . |
| 4 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 5 | Together , the three of them removed the boards which formed the trough and the natron ran off in a tide of white powder on to the floor . |
| 6 | Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel 's family since 1942 , but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else 's , putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium . |
| 7 | ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way . |
| 8 | It seems that , although some substantial and long-standing export industries declined , others expanded their export sales over the post-war period ( although the rise slowed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 9 | Revisionist work has still to be drawn together into a full-scale synthesis , in part no doubt , because the quantity of new doctoral research in the field slowed down in the early 1980s . |
| 10 | The gang sped off in the Pathfinder after abandoning the overheating pickup , stolen the night before , 30ft from the bodies of the two friends . |
| 11 | To Harry 's left , the lane petered out in a gravel track curving round past the garden hedge to serve the jetty . |
| 12 | The bucket went up in a geyser of flame , yellow and blue and white . |
| 13 | Troop Sergeant-Major Haines — landed from ML 6 — reported to Newman and early in the fight lay out in the open with a 2-inch ( 51mm ) mortar firing on the guns across the submarine basin . |
| 14 | The skin ended up in the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen and it was only when the corpse was examined that it was discovered that sulukongur was in fact a female ! |
| 15 | The mud-slinging splashed back in the face of the accuser . |
| 16 | The awful triumvirate of fear , guilt and anger has to be faced and the tension built up in the body dealt with . |
| 17 | Certainly , the complex set up in the city meant that the bishop , appointed in the time of Sigibert , was only too easily suspected of treason by Guntram — and the arrival of Gundovald clearly did not help matters . |
| 18 | The industry grew up in the Lake District because there was a demand for gunpowder in the slate quarries and copper mines of the region , and because of the ready availability of birch and alder for charcoal and fast flowing becks to drive the machinery in the area . |
| 19 | The light went on in the hall and the door opened . |
| 20 | When the light went out in the last room , Bridget began to get up . |
| 21 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 22 | It seemed like only moments after Shiona had fallen asleep that the light snapped on in the compartment and a strong hand was dragging her from her bunk . |
| 23 | As he spoke , the sideboard barring the entrance toppled over in a heap of shattered crockery and wood . |
| 24 | The figure curled up in the chair by the fire , stirred and yawned toothlessly . |
| 25 | And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides . |
| 26 | Although there is some experience of contracting in such services as catering and cleaning , the scale of the programme set out in the White Paper is of a different order . |
| 27 | The digger careered around in a big circle , so that when the two humans crawled out of the wreckage it was the first thing they saw . |
| 28 | The Superintendent leant back in the chair in the diocesan office conference room , Tallboy sitting opposite . |
| 29 | The Bomber came down in the middle of morning service . ’ |
| 30 | The friendship broke off in the 1880s . |