Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | At first in Africa , and later on the treadmill in the field station in Massachusetts , Taylor measured the oxygen consumption of a wide range of species when running , or hopping , or walking , or galloping , at different speeds . |
| 32 | I switched on the light in the bedroom . |
| 33 | I switched on the light in the hall . |
| 34 | I stepped forward and switched on the light in the kitchen . |
| 35 | I did not switch on the light in case it should dazzle her . |
| 36 | Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again . |
| 37 | The frown was back between his eyes as I put on the light in my room . |
| 38 | Behind him , Ilse switched on the light in the kitchen . |
| 39 | ( 2 ) In this Act references to the members of a self-regulating organisation are references to the persons who , whether or not members of the organisation , are subject to its rules in carrying on the business in question . |
| 40 | ( 2 ) In this Act references to the members of a self-regulating organisation are references to the persons who , whether or not members of the organisation , are subject to its rules in carrying on the business in question . |
| 41 | ‘ In this Act references to the members of a self-regulating organisation are references to the persons who , whether or not members of the organisation , are subject to its rules in carrying on the business in question . |
| 42 | However , it must be stressed that it is a question of fact in each individual transaction , and the question one has to ask objectively in every single situation is whether the purchaser is merely selecting specific assets for the use in his own business or whether he is buying assets in order that he can carry on the business in succession to and in place of the vendor . |
| 43 | Bring on the men in white coats ! |
| 44 | Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest . |
| 45 | I do n't think the theatre 's ever been endowed with a great deal of fundings but one or two companies in the town that have been prepared to fund obviously the one that strikes me is Gilbey 's cos the Gilbey bar I mean that was funded and like they 've been over the years they have given money even fact as a sad note cos Gilbey 's have actually demised now erm General Portfolio have actually taken on the role in Harlow of funding many things if you actually look all most things that have sponsored until recently have been sponsored by General Portfolio so they 've been to the fore in er fundering funding . |
| 46 | ‘ An out-party sometimes forgets that the power it exercises as an opposition is to some extent in the hands of journalists ’ ; the more supportive the press is of the opposition party , the more pressure it can bring on the party in power . |
| 47 | And with the large capital invetment involved , the customer depends on the fact that any new model must be capable of taking on the task in hand without difficulty — there is no room for mere gimmicks . |
| 48 | Strictly , the Revenue can argue that s343 does not apply until the hive-up agreement has become unconditional and been completed in accordance with its terms ( for example , the novating of liabilities and obtaining of third party consents ) , since s343 requires Newco to carry on the trade in succession to the transferor , not merely beneficially own it . |
| 49 | The gas burned with a flickering blue light as she switched on the fire in the sitting-room , and for a while she held out her hands to the flame . |
| 50 | The Betts take on the Piggotts in the other semi-final . |
| 51 | A nurse switched on the television in the lounge . |
| 52 | Such a process may be comparable to the experience one has when switching on the radio in the middle of a discussion programme and trying to understand the discussion through a partial reconstruction of what must have been said already , who the participants must be , and so on . |
| 53 | I began several diaries , carrying on the entries in some of them as far as February . |
| 54 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
| 55 | Next time you find yourself queuing to have your photo taken on the Cantilever in Snowdonia , or looking for a vacant shelter to eat your sandwiches in on Scafell Pike , stop and look to the west . |
| 56 | Friends talked the matter over far into the night and then went home , to their families or to the loneliness of dingy bed-sitting rooms , to carry on the debate in diaries and notebooks , poems and letters . |
| 57 | Horan and de Kretser cornered some of those upper cases for Ceylon in Colombo on January 7 when they mowed down the visitors in their second innings for 46 and inflicted a ‘ pair ’ of ducks on Waddy himself . |
| 58 | Eight bodies tumbled out , sliding down the rope in rapid succession . |
| 59 | Close inspection reveals that a strip of reverse grain timber has been laid down the centre in order to add strength — another old-fashioned idea and a good one , too . |
| 60 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |