Example sentences of "in [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 2 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
| 3 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 4 | Several schools commented on the importance of involving the whole school in living up to the agreed health policy . |
| 5 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 6 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 7 | Herodotus 's Histories and Aeschylus 's Agamemnon serve as touchstones for Brooke-Rose 's novel , for in going back to the classical period , it is able to return to the point at which these distinctions began to be associated with different ways of talking and writing attributed to fact and to fiction . |
| 8 | My guess is that I am not alone in waking up to the stunning brutality of boxing . |
| 9 | She suspects me of a form of vanity in sidling up to the existential questions . |
| 10 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 11 | But they will face a difficult task in getting back into the National Leagues , especially with the scrap for players in the North-East likely to intensify . |
| 12 | ‘ Gary showed great courage in coming back in the second half even though the injury was very painful . ’ |
| 13 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that because of his action in opting out of the social charter , Great Britain will be the only country in Europe that will deny its people the legal right to paid holidays ? |
| 14 | In showing off to the raw recruits he might even throw the small plane into such daring bankings or dives that it could n't be manoeuvred out of . |
| 15 | Government , in carrying through into the late 1940s the orthodoxies of the 1920s , had trapped itself into what was to prove an untenable position . |
| 16 | While Raybestos had succeeded in carrying on despite the intense opposition of two communities , it was unable to survive the actions of its own workers fighting the hazards of asbestos at the point of production . |
| 17 | Sergeant Bramble was so engrossed in mouthing along with the Daily Express that he did not notice the opening of the door . |