Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 2 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 3 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 4 | Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich . |
| 5 | Place face down in Schiff 's reagent ( commercially available ) for 30 min , in the dark . |
| 6 | To play shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the |
| 7 | Windows were smashed clean out in fourth-floor dressing rooms as actor and understudy flared up into a fight . |
| 8 | Many of these mature offspring of the root form work their way to the surface and those which are winged fly off in search of new vines . |
| 9 | Handel is playing on the CD and candles are lit , and the most beautiful children I have ever seen scurry about in pink and cream pyjamas . |
| 10 | You ront go back in boat now ? |
| 11 | Oh put Spot back in his box , there 's his box , I 'll go and get Amy and put her in her chair , and she can watch you do Spot , alright ? |
| 12 | I 'd come in in the middle of something . |
| 13 | The rock slice is placed face down in a polythene tray into 30% HF solution for 3 or 4 min . |
| 14 | And there , as he ( Tethra ) lay face down in the lee of an upturned boat , … he let his thinking catch up with him . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm disappointed but not devastated and I 'll be cheering Kriss on in Rome . ’ |
| 16 | I saw her at once , lying face up in my bed . |
| 17 | Buzz found herself lying face up in the snow , in great pain , unable to move : as helpless as a black beetle flipped on to its back . |
| 18 | The body was lying face up in the rain . |
| 19 | But five days after he moved in he was found by staff horribly scalded across his back and chest lying face up in the bath . |
| 20 | It was wholly predictable , then , that at about 8.50 on the morning of Monday , March 17 , I was lying face down in the grammar school dirt with 30 jeering first formers on my back . |
| 21 | On the page opposite there is a cartoon of Pissed dressed up in a suit lying face down in the gutter clutching a bottle of lager , and Mickey Aspel coming out from under a manhole cover saying ‘ George Best ! |
| 22 | I want you and Loring and anyone else going spare over in Sewingbury to turn Cullam 's house upside down . ’ |
| 23 | Ringed plover and sanderling pass through in great numbers on their way further south . |
| 24 | I do n't think I 've got anything more from this morning so , only a bit about policy fees which I believe are now scheduled go up in first of August . |
| 25 | Unlike those of the Philistines his worst fears have been realized , and the cry he hears go up in the town is not for the ark 's arrival , but for its capture . |
| 26 | As we read our participants ' accounts , the severity of retribution is to be understood against a background of the degree to which they feel let down in relation to their expectations of those they feel they should respect . |
| 27 | She was flung violently forward , to land face down in a heap of blankets , the crushing weight of her assailant forcing all the air out of her body . |
| 28 | Mr Peter Jowett , 43 , was found face down in a copse on his 1,000-acre Wiltshire estate on Wednesday night with a .38 bullet lodged in the centre of his back . |
| 29 | Now detectives are trying to unravel the mystery of how he came to be found face down in a ditch in a plantation on Scotston Farm , Auchterhouse , nearly eight miles from his home on the Ardler estate in Dundee . |
| 30 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |