Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and Richard Hannon keep on banging in the winners while others are rushing about like headless chickens in the belief that the sky is falling down . |
| 2 | Well , I remember Strawberry Alarm Clock , a bunch of psychedelic nutters from Santa Barbara , who had a massive hit with ‘ Incense and Peppermint ’ in 1967 and then went on to appear in the Psych-Out movie . |
| 3 | Peter Morgan had no complaints , however , and went on to work in the hotels and restaurants of the Lyons empire . |
| 4 | Next month he travels to Nuremburg to do parish work before going on to work in the archives in the Papal capital . |
| 5 | Very often pupils will benefit from the opportunity to see and handle , and discuss a few selected artefacts at close hand , before going on to work in the display galleries . |
| 6 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 7 | There used to be a Circuit bicycle , kept in Thomas Street , for the use of visiting Edgehill students down to preach in the country churches . |
| 8 | It might be a way of tempting him down to sit in the bar , sometimes . ’ |
| 9 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 10 | I settled down to wait in the passageway between the garage and the house where I was a little protected from the inclemency of the weather and whence I was eventually plucked by the constabulary . |
| 11 | The skep , with some comb still hanging to feed the bees through the cold times , was lifted onto a cloth , the spare bees scooped back into it , and it was wrapped to be carried back down to overwinter in the bee field . |
| 12 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 13 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |
| 14 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , let our Jimmy down to pee in the sink then . ' |
| 16 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |
| 17 | Then she lay down to rest in the lounge , surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking . |
| 18 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 19 | — When Manjiku comes , she shuts her eyes and lets herself fall down his throat past the barbed teeth and come down to land in the foul bilgewater in his gut . |
| 20 | Lewis , down to run in the 200m , wants to switch to the 100m to meet Christie . |
| 21 | I think if she went in to live in the back woods , you know , way beyond |
| 22 | And she went down to check in the winter time and she said your van was really dry . |
| 23 | When visiting a church on the south coast , I saw the following notice for the Young Wives ' Social Evening : ‘ If your husband has nothing on , bring him along to join in the fun ! ’ |
| 24 | If you 're thinking of going along to join in the fun , there 's something going on every day and evening until next Friday night . |
| 25 | perhaps she thought , that 's it , I bet she writes it down chatting in the exam . |
| 26 | She put her name down to speak in the great debate about the state of the English Faculty that was held in the University Senate ; and in the Cambridge University Reporter for the 18th February , 1981 , occupying a column and a half of small print , sandwiched between contributions from two of the University 's most distinguished professors , you may find Robyn 's impassioned plea for a radical theorization of the syllabus . |
| 27 | ‘ We gave in to comfort in the end and bought the suite instead . |
| 28 | I turn back and carry on looking in the window , but it 's hard to concentrate with this blue light flashing on and off in the glass . |
| 29 | ( Hu Yaobang and his family , for example , were allowed to carry on living in the privileged conditions of Zhongnanhai and Fang Lizhi was still allowed to travel abroad . ) |
| 30 | David began to think that it might be possible to go on living in the same house as Julia and Anthony without either betraying himself or suffering unendurable frustration . |