Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er Freda would have a blanket on in winter with that , it was n't necessary you know |
| 2 | She had abandoned all hope of getting her contract down in black and white ! |
| 3 | As I retreated , putting one foot down in front of the other on the stony path , I reflected that I was tired of this place , that it had the dry consistency of chaff . |
| 4 | If certain criticisms have cropped up consistently , you must decide either to correct these problems or to soldier on in defiance of market opinion . |
| 5 | The crown with two fleurs-de-lys is repeated on the blank reverse , but it is upside down in comparison . |
| 6 | The B–17 pilot then skilfully brought the bomber down in front of the cameras , which recorded the dramatic crash landing as the right wing slammed down on the two right props and engines . |
| 7 | Something about ‘ when the avengers strike this monster down in blood , that they avenge as well , a simple slave who died — a small thing , lightly killed . ’ |
| 8 | An advert for a CIA letter opener says that it can be driven by hammer through in plywood . |
| 9 | She had been crying again and her mascara had been washed away and she looked like an eleven-year-old waking up in hospital after an operation . |
| 10 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 11 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 12 | She was saved from answering by the sound of knocking at the door , and turned with relief to see Dane 's face light up in welcome . |
| 13 | ‘ So after the fire , Himmelbrau and Strick called me in to see whether I could do something to re-establish their client files — thirty years of legal practice up in smoke . |
| 14 | with a lock up in store |
| 15 | For example , I had no idea about playing scenes on a raked stage , which can throw your weight out in placement very considerably . |
| 16 | But it 's ‘ Real Thing ’ , a vicious , funk-oriented cacophony that truly sends the album out in style and catapults them into the five star catch area . |
| 17 | But it 's ‘ Real Thing ’ , a vicious , funk-oriented cacophony that truly sends the album out in style and catapults them into the five star catch area . |
| 18 | Canoe store roof back in place |
| 19 | Er first of all er P P G three and the question asked by the D O E as well that it 's sufficient justification to go further than the guidance det out in paragraph thirty three er of P P G I think it is paragraph thirty three of P P G |
| 20 | Still only 39 , Ian confesses to adoring his wife — hence the silk rose for Valentine 's Day — and a determination to put the love boat out in style when his 20-year-old daughter gets married next year . |
| 21 | It was a Police Force out in force to recognise a man who was one of theirs . |
| 22 | Somehow , though , she managed to keep her head , ‘ Of course , ’ she replied , but quickly followed up , ‘ Though I always prefer to write my work down in longhand first . ’ |
| 23 | Sonnet 143 begins with a leisurely analogy involving a housewife putting her child down in order to pursue a runaway chicken . |
| 24 | Mungo joined them , setting the basket down in front of the nature-lover . |
| 25 | Aye look at , look at the hall over in village . |
| 26 | It was notable that butyrate metabolism was greatest at a concentration of 1 mM with a fall off in metabolism at higher concentrations . |
| 27 | For the yards owner , it was 25 years of work up in smoke . |
| 28 | But these are all landsmen ; of week days past pent up in lath and plaster — tied to counters , nailed to benches , clinched to desks . |
| 29 | Having been long pent up in town , Annie and myself viewed Southall as a second Paradise , and I remember I nearly hung myself on my pin-before the very first morning after our arrival , in attempting to scale the yard gates to see the country beyond them . |
| 30 | The girl up in front of him , a mere thirty or forty yards away , had a dark skin , lustrously sheened . |