Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 2 | The big man has been in a clinic since breaking a leg against Crystal Palace last week and the only way he can join in the Reds rise is by cheering them on in front of his telly . |
| 3 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 4 | I would n't mind betting that Bill 's lists that you gave him actually contained all these things and only then can we actually put them down in order . |
| 5 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 6 | A very simple way of collecting examples of people talking is to sit them down in front of the camera and get them to talk to it . |
| 7 | Yeah , I know we went in there last week , cos they had these cards , they got those things with six bugs on them , they 're really ugly looking things , Aaron wanted them , he has n't half been playing some tricks on Gary take them down in front of Gary and that Gary 's aagh |
| 8 | Or is this yet another example of the Government and their supporters talking up human rights in theory and knocking them down in practice ? |
| 9 | He disliked the use of extemporary prayers , saying , ‘ There needed no other confutation than to take them down in shorthand and shew them afterwards to those men that had been so audacious as to utter them . ’ |
| 10 | Although her reports usually arrived by post , she brought them along in person on one occasion , because she had written a poem and wondered if it was worthy of publication . |
| 11 | I offered Benn the chance to fight me in September and he turned me down in favour of fighting Mauro Galvano in Italy . |
| 12 | Defeat left Everton with a far from comfortable eight point cushion above the relegation zone and Kendall said : ‘ We defended well most of the time but let ourselves down in injury time . |
| 13 | He hurled himself over in bed to study the writing under the lamp , still could n't decide whether it was Jim 's or Bella 's , ate a piece of milk chocolate , and then six Codeines , because he had forgotten to bring his sleeping pills . |
| 14 | Larsen then passed the window pane down to Grant , and lowered himself through in turn . |
| 15 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
| 16 | As her body began to shake with mirth , Ludovico raised himself up in dismay and cried , ‘ What do I do wrong ? |
| 17 | An 'A'-Level Art student has invented a new style of sculpture … by wrapping himself up in chicken wire . |
| 18 | Chramn used his position in Aquitaine to set himself up in opposition to his father , Chlothar I , who sent his half-brothers to destroy him . |
| 19 | As an apprentice plumber he endured years of chilblains and chapped hands due to constant submersion in cold water until he set himself up in business in London . |
| 20 | And the first man who pursued me did so to gouge a small fortune out of my father , to marry his true sweetheart and set himself up in business . |
| 21 | First the terrified 15-year-old managed to turn himself round in mid-air . |
| 22 | This can be financially successful particularly if a parent or friend can persuade a printer to run them off in colour at a discount . |
| 23 | Owners of rare pets in Thailand are believed to be killing them off in order to escape prosecution under new legislation which forbids the collection of endangered species . |
| 24 | Because polyanthus are more difficult to germinate , start them off in seed trays or pots in a greenhouse or cold frame . |
| 25 | Dennis thoughtfully offered to drop me off in town . |
| 26 | Sometimes , if they did n't know the one I was after , they sent me off in search of one or two they had of their own . |
| 27 | he said be very careful what you say have you down in evidence then . |
| 28 | I got you down in sight yes . |
| 29 | I let you down in front of your friends , and I 'm sorry . |
| 30 | Tell you what , I 'll get you pleasantly drunk , tuck you up in bed , you 'll sleep the sleep of the dead . |