Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much later , in the eighteenth century , the Spanish artist Goya shows a caged owl being swooped upon by two free-flying birds , while a small caged bird sits nervously in front of it . |
| 2 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 3 | The men worked hard and as you got on in life you just thought this was home , although you had n't the luxuries . |
| 4 | It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens . |
| 5 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 6 | Well nobody can see if you sit right in front of it , can they ? |
| 7 | Now he squatted , toad-like , by Berowne 's body , his hands hanging loosely in front of him , palely disembodied . |
| 8 | This beam is then focused by an acoustic lens , the melon , a fatty body situated right in front of the blow-hole and conspicuous by its presence in many cetaceans . |
| 9 | This hope lived on in Judaism . |
| 10 | His sentimental side gibbered wrathfully in reply . |
| 11 | It galled him to have to sit impotently in silence ; worse still , that it had been witnessed . |
| 12 | Of the 47 cases decided , Mr Platt ruled wholly in favour of the complainant in 18 and partly in four . |
| 13 | A group of artists whose work differs widely in style but is united in the interest in landscape the portrait are at Durand-Dessert until 28 April . |
| 14 | ( This work goes on in parallel with in vivo studies . ) |
| 15 | Or it could be the beginning of justice and the end of administering the law , because , how much of what goes on in court is actually administering the law , rather than determining natural justice . |
| 16 | exposing erm this to society what goes on in society . |
| 17 | They should neither remain aloof from what goes on in life , nor should they spend all their time solving industrial problems . |
| 18 | Well it was erm , making me go back to something that goes on in branch all the time . |
| 19 | Come and be glad and , it goes on in chorus to use yet another picture of the Holy Spirit , we 've talked of one being of fire , another picture is that of water , I will pour water on him that is thirsty ! |
| 20 | Greater understanding of what goes on in school does n't necessarily mean a greater approval of its organisation and its methods . |
| 21 | Those who are not teachers , whether they are concerned with the good of society or with the good of certain individual children , will even more certainly look to what happens after school if they are to be satisfied with what goes on in school itself . |
| 22 | Mrs said th , there 's too much of a confidential nature goes on in school and , I 'm not allowed to do it at school . |
| 23 | They later came to argue that class struggle goes on in state institutions ( Althusser , 1976 ; Poulantzas , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | All of these provided the basis for questioning what actually goes on in resource-allocation processes , but a major step forward came with the work of Bower ( 1970 ) and Ackerman ( 1970 ) . |
| 25 | With currently available equipment we are not able to discover what goes on in detail in the brain when someone is speaking , though we can make guesses based on evidence such as speech errors ( ‘ slips of the tongue ’ ) and the effects on speech production of different sorts of brain damage . |
| 26 | We try as far as possible to relate the work we do in the Technical Department to what goes on in industry and commerce . |
| 27 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 28 | It is in each individual 's interest to defend its place in the ‘ peck order ’ vigorously , as well as to challenge those higher up — hence the almost continual challenging that goes on in goat society . |
| 29 | What goes on in Summer Bay |
| 30 | ‘ So I know what goes on in football clubs . |