Example sentences of "in [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 | If I also say to him that the lesson we learn from the United States is not to go down the route that he and his party have signed up to in signing up to a socialist manifesto for the European elections . |
| 4 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 5 | Several schools commented on the importance of involving the whole school in living up to the agreed health policy . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps there is n't all that much fun in going around with a married bloke , after all ? ’ |
| 9 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My guess is that I am not alone in waking up to the stunning brutality of boxing . |
| 12 | She suspects me of a form of vanity in sidling up to the existential questions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Although Althusser 's interpretation of Marx can not , in the nature of things , live up to its own ideal of a theory which has no starting point , it follows the life-cycle of persons who are born into a web of relations and social conventions in starting out from a complex whole made up of practices . |
| 16 | ‘ Gary showed great courage in coming back in the second half even though the injury was very painful . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | In sitting down on an antique bench in the locker-room , the Welsh teenager had been lanced by a wooden splinter . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Government , in carrying through into the late 1940s the orthodoxies of the 1920s , had trapped itself into what was to prove an untenable position . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In no way do they have a mandate to wipe out a whole stock and possibly a whole species simply for their convenience in carrying on with an unsophisticated fishing method . ’ |
| 23 | But we do respect her bravery in standing up against a dreadful regime . |
| 24 | Many plants were in fact native , such as Red Campion , Silene dioica , aquilegia and violets , and because they were already well adjusted to our climate , found no difficulty in springing up from every square inch of the ground . |
| 25 | Sergeant Bramble was so engrossed in mouthing along with the Daily Express that he did not notice the opening of the door . |