Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Levy claimed Andy Linighan was drunk and had fallen asleep in the back of the taxi . |
| 2 | The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall . |
| 3 | The man had fallen asleep in the lounge when he woke to find a fire at the front door of his terraced home . |
| 4 | This is fully tax relievable in the employer 's hands so the liability nets down to £3,393 for the employer . |
| 5 | Our tips — the Damon Wayans vehicle ‘ Mo Money or Ice-T and Ice Cube trying to go mainstream in The Looters |
| 6 | Be patient and remain strong in the knowledge that the universe knows what 's best for you . |
| 7 | It was a dull , snowy night , with heavy grey clouds hanging low in the sky , the kind of night when hopes are destroyed and love is lost . |
| 8 | And what price do you place on the species made extinct in the rainforest ? |
| 9 | The moonlight splintered on the foaming water as they fought calf-deep in the river . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , he will not be proving that in the Derby . |
| 11 | The movement of a large number of sellers in the parallel market would drive down the price , and push up the yield until it equalled that in the discount market . |
| 12 | The youngest of a large family , who lived right in the book-printing district with Morrison & Gibb , Clark 's and Neill 's within walking distance , she had two elder sisters already in the trade . |
| 13 | ‘ I realised that in the end . ’ |
| 14 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 15 | Details of symptoms and endoscopic aspects of the stomach in this type of lymphoma , however , remain scarce in the published reports , and the best treatment has not yet been established . |
| 16 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 17 | That 's , it 's horrible to see that in the family . |
| 18 | Consequently , it was necessary to introduce more daylight into the broader interiors and this became possible in the 1890s with the use of reinforced-concrete floors and steel girders . |
| 19 | Now it was replaced by an administrative , legal , and organizational unity , which first became possible in the twelfth century as a result of the development of the administrative , legal and scholastic instruments of government . |
| 20 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 21 | We 'll cover that in the next bit of the agenda . |
| 22 | But in the end I saw that Frejji was right — that Mala and I could probably stay unrecognized in the midst of a typical Uulaan carnival . |
| 23 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 24 | The mangolds will remain alive in the clamp , and the stalks will be sprouting by March . |
| 25 | And he could have been back in the locker room even quicker had he served out for the match when he led 5–2 in the second set . |
| 26 | Nottingham City , originally named Mansfield Marksman after a lager , remain marooned in the depths of the Second Division . |
| 27 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 28 | One possible implication of this , suggests Gershuny , is that there would be a substantial reduction in the overall numbers formally employed , with the unemployed making creative use of the opportunities these consumer durables make possible in the home — a more benign version of Cooley 's vision described earlier . |
| 29 | All these kept her rising with the tide , even if she rode lower in the water than Germany . |
| 30 | They were haunted by the fear of another Dunkirk and were anxious to remain strong in the Middle East . |