Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pot up the small young plants as ‘ plugs ’ and grow them on in a frame or a greenhouse — or even in a wooden box covered with polythene . |
| 2 | I did put my shoes on cos I thought I sha n't get them on in a minute because my feet swell when I sit down . |
| 3 | I put them on in the afternoon ; my mother became very silent . |
| 4 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 5 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 6 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 7 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 8 | No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match . |
| 9 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 10 | His hobby was breeding bees and one day he brought them in in a glass cabinet and he was saying , ‘ These are the workers and this is the queen bee , and they fly out of the window and come back with pollen and they make honey . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 12 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 13 | And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case . |
| 14 | At eighteen it 's so easy to romanticise things and put them down in a song . |
| 15 | He saw things in a flash and put them down in a sentence or at most a paragraph . |
| 16 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 17 | Such posts might not carry a large salary , for although Henry VIII had evidently raised the wages of household officials , Elizabeth held them down in a period of rising prices . |
| 18 | Write them down in a list ( a ) , ( b ) , ( c ) , ( d ) . |
| 19 | I recited the names of some relations and friends , and my mother wrote them down in a businesslike fashion until I ran out of ideas . |
| 20 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 21 | Women motorists have been urged to be vigilant after two women were raped after three men flagged them down in a country lane in Bedfordshire . |
| 22 | Well I 'll be able to take them down in a minute . |
| 23 | Japan said that it intended to build up its military forces to a high level so that it could cut them down in the interests of peace . |
| 24 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 25 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 26 | But I just said put them down in the book . |
| 27 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 28 | In the wild , a fish can get around this problem by absorbing much bigger molecules and then breaking them down in the gut wall or bloodstream . |
| 29 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 30 | We used to chop them down in the slaughterhouse on two pulleys , you see . |