Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What fun you children had skating on the tennis courts down in the valley , and putting on plays and dances with the Claydons . |
| 2 | We loved our home in the woods down in the lane . |
| 3 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 4 | Anyway , the people she met were all in a hurry , striding along with heads down in the rain , and no one appeared to notice her . |
| 5 | Sally-Anne was delighted by his changed manner ; he always looked so charming when he smiled — even the scar seemed to disappear a little , and as she was always ready for fun herself — a trait she shared with her papa — and the game looked like being fun , she said , eyes shining , ‘ Oh , I play to win , too , but a good servant always does what the Master commands , ’ and she cast her eyes down in the manner of a stage domestic registering submission . |
| 6 | No British team have ever come back from three goals down in the history of European competition . |
| 7 | To get all the silly voices over in the same day Johnnie Walker will be presenting his morning programme on Radio 5 from there on Thursday . |
| 8 | In Australia , players have four to five months off in the summer to prepare and they also play far less games . ’ |
| 9 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
| 10 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 11 | Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere . |
| 12 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |
| 13 | Look these words up in the Oxford English Dictionary ( complete version , not the compact or shorter version ) ; in Brewer 's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature ; in the Encyclopedia Brittanica ; and in whichever other relevant reference sources are available to you . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've just got to get our heads up in the second half of the season and go all out to qualify for Europe again . ’ |
| 15 | Note how they sometimes walk with their tails up in the air , probably using them as a flag for signalling to others in the group when on the move through undergrowth . |
| 16 | Villa had their tails up in the second half and Atkinson and Staunton both had chances to increase their lead . |
| 17 | — helping to get clients up in the morning |
| 18 | It was the listeners up in the loggioni of whom the singers were most afraid : if the performance did not reach a sufficiently high standard in the opinion of the audience , the most vocal members of which were in the loggioni , they would be treated to il fichio , an outburst of whistling accompanied by the stamping of feet and sometimes a barrage of tomatoes or fruit . |
| 19 | She 'd discover he had n't locked the hen-house when she went to let the hens out in the morning . |
| 20 | I think generally speaking you erm schools out in the country are better . |
| 21 | Commercial tools and technology manager Nancy Colwell claimed that systems management tools from a company with longevity such as CA was the most highly requested demand from Sun users , while Sun president Scott McNealy claimed that Sun would have up to 10,000 commercial servers out in the field by the end of the year . |
| 22 | John Lennon , the leader of Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition , who was briefly a member of an unsuccessful group called The Quarrymen back in the 1960s , was apparently asked if he wanted to reform to appear on the bill . |
| 23 | Have you any idea what it was like round here in those days ? — women and kids out in the fields till all hours , gleaning , stone-picking , hauling the wagons when they got bogged down . |
| 24 | As stylish as ever despite his 51 years , Jeff King took charge with David Nicholson 's Dreamers Delight three furlongs out in the ‘ Golden Oldies ’ charity challenge . |
| 25 | If Jitters did n't have a wife and kids back in the old country — which , come to think of it , he probably did n't these days — he might just have dragged Fat Old Stinky Juanita up before the padre and tied the old knot . |
| 26 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
| 27 | And they 're tips to put on the canes so you do n't poke your eyes out in the garden . |
| 28 | The shop was started by the Neal brothers back in the 1870s . |
| 29 | The CBI rejects warnings that companies will hide behind the new anti-hacking laws , rather than make efforts to keep intruders out in the first place . |
| 30 | He put the books back in the drawer and stood waiting for Mrs Hatton to recover . |