Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will be ready for November , before the government grant settlement arrives , and work will begin in the finance officer 's department paring them down in bilateral discussions . |
| 2 | My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways . |
| 3 | ‘ Simon 's filled me in in glorious detail . ’ |
| 4 | If they can get me down in black and white at least I 'll have my say , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It was pouring with rain , so we dolled ourselves up in wet-weather gear and swayed like Michelin men back down the lakeside path nicknamed by Stuart the Yellow Brick Road . |
| 6 | ‘ Because he mixed himself up in poor Donny 's murder . ’ |
| 7 | He caught himself up in horrified confusion . |
| 8 | The English archers poured a deadly hail of arrows into the French troops , and the English men-at-arms finished them off in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 9 | Imagine that we , the human species , released one billion living spores into the Universe , sending them off in random directions . |
| 10 | But he is also an American and before he guns you down in cold blood , in the manner you so justly deserve I might add , I 'm sure he will see his way clear to giving you a dying request . ’ |
| 11 | Look forward to seeing you over in head office sometime . |
| 12 | I did n't like being called a rowdie , but then I did n't exactly have the time or resources to sue for defamation , if that 's the legal terminology for someone who slags you off in public . |
| 13 | But for one zany week in March , the place sheds its stay-at-home Cinderella rags , paints its face and gets itself up in motley as Clown Town . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've caused me and my friends a lot of trouble and we are going to pay you back in full . |
| 15 | ( 4 ) This plays itself out in spatial terms in the restructuration of the centre of our great cities and the creation of a large group of central-city dwelling ‘ yuppies ’ among the post-industrial middle classes . |
| 16 | If not , simply leave them nearby , and the dog will probably pick them up in due course . |
| 17 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 18 | Daly invents new words , breaks them up in provocative , punning ways ( as with the title ; and therapist becomes the-rapist ) and plays on obsolete meanings , as with glamour ( originally ‘ possessed of magical powers ’ ) , haggard ( connected with witchcraft ) and spinster ( one who spins a new thread ) . |
| 19 | You can often pick them up in second-hand bookshops . |
| 20 | Shannon , constantly mopping her feverish forehead , is , like the giant lizard tied up and thrashing under the floorboards , at the end of his rope , and the party of Texan school teachers he is leading on a ‘ tour of God 's world ’ are incensed about his having put them up in flea-bag hotels and fallen into bed with the teenage student they have brought along . |
| 21 | In fact I think you can probably still pick them up in antique shops and second hand shops and probably a lot of people have still got some . |
| 22 | She dressed them up in full nineteenth century bourgeois feminine regalia and had them flower arranging or idling by the mantelpiece as in ‘ Angela ’ . |
| 23 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 24 | Next time you work something out in rough keep the paper for a week and then look at it again . |
| 25 | I 'm actually , I 'm quite high on as theorist as well and I like to write everything out in full and I clear structures and if I go to training sessions and they 're all over the place , it 's such a in about five minutes and I have to say hang on a minute it might not be structured in the way that you like it but you can actually learn from it . |
| 26 | Those respondents who insisted on strict anonymity — to the extent of removing coding on the questionnaires and sending them back in plain brown envelopes — not surprisingly pointed to the anonymity factor as an attractive feature of headhunting when compared with in-house recruiting . |
| 27 | Let's put them back in safe place |
| 28 | When the above entry is printed out according to the SIL MANUSCRIPT ( MS ) programme it appears like this : Many people will find it preferable to type the words of their dictionary in alphabetical order so that the computer prints them out in alphabetical order without further programming . |
| 29 | He took big lungfuls of air and then let them out in great racking sobs that shook his whole body . |
| 30 | Get the notes typewritten using a new ribbon , or copy them out in black felt tip pen in large capital letters . |