Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 2 | Madame sat down in Ellie 's father 's chair , by the unlit fire , and took out a cigarette from her purse , while Ellie stood uncertainly by . |
| 3 | As well as surprise , she had heard irritation tamped down in Vitor 's voice . |
| 4 | Down in Roirbak 's workshop , Ari skidded to where Leila and Quincx were still re-running the surveillance vid . |
| 5 | I sat down in Dad 's chair and told him all about the old lady and her brother , or at least what I knew , which was n't much . |
| 6 | Do you wan na go and live down in Katie 's bedroom ? |
| 7 | If his betrayal had n't led to her breaking down in Lisa 's presence , she might never have discovered her assistant 's unexpected resources . |
| 8 | The House of Lords upheld the law laid down in West 's case , Lord Scarman stating at p189 : |
| 9 | You know , down in Land 's End ? |
| 10 | Place face down in Schiff 's reagent ( commercially available ) for 30 min , in the dark . |
| 11 | I do not think that any hard and fast rule is laid down in Chamberlain 's case . |
| 12 | It hit the green and finished down in the rough with the flag just over a little rise ( he was down in Duncan 's Hollow ) . |
| 13 | Ten minutes later , after Nina had made mugs of tea for them both , the two women sat down in Rachel 's office . |
| 14 | She sits me down in Jamie 's heap of a living room while she clatters in the kitchenette . |
| 15 | He went up in the lift and sat down in Irina 's pleasant office . |
| 16 | two people to go to John , erm because erm , apart from anything else it was agreed John 's arm was twisted yesterday to take two people and g and the work but the issue is is that the K does n't , the issue is is that there is no budget anywhere for it either here or down in John 's area . |
| 17 | This peaceable character , dressed down in Levi 's and C & A sweaters , polite , nervous , very shy and completely , utterly disarming , would sit with legs crossed , speak in low inoffensive tones , employ the look of a total apologetic office clerk , butter would n't melt … and yet display complete integrity and confidence and produce statements like … |
| 18 | Vic goes down in football 's annals as the first international player to be chosen from the ranks of the 4th Division ( for Wales against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 22 April 1959 ) , but Palace fans should know that this was no freak selection , for Vic had impressed many with his splendid performances and was in a run of 143 consecutive League games with just a single absence for us . |
| 19 | Jay was Bogart , Dietrich , even Anne Bancroft as her heart tugged along in Lucy 's wake . |
| 20 | And he must have got the mark on them when he slipped over in Steen 's garage . |
| 21 | Below her , in the orchard , apple and pear and plum frothed pink and white with blossom , and over in Tingle 's Wood a sea of bluebells rose out of the morning mist . |
| 22 | The pious and happy deaths of good little boys and girls , with , for variety , the occasional frightful deaths of irreligious children who were assumed to have passed straight to the eternal fires of hell , are continually described and lingered over in children 's books of the eighteenth and nineteenth century , from Janeway onward . |
| 23 | In order to break the boredom of hanging around hotels sipping soft drinks — Torino had advisedly banned Law and Baker from drinking alcohol in public — the three men took off in Baker 's Alfa Romeo sports car . |
| 24 | With panic inside her she set off in Will 's footsteps towards the town , sobbing . |
| 25 | Wednesday , December 16 — Two bombs go off in London 's West End . |
| 26 | Illicit coca cultivation has dropped in the Chapare but has taken off in Bolivia 's Beni valley and across the border in Brazil and Peru . |
| 27 | The £110m takeover — which made ADT the second largest burglar alarm company in Great Britain — resulted in a £146m goodwill write off in ADT 's 1991 accounts . |
| 28 | The Anglo-Italian — also blighted by low gates — saw four players sent off in Birmingham 's match with Bari two weeks ago , while West Ham 's Trevor Morley was dismissed on Tuesday against Reggiana at Upton Park and Cremonese 's Luigo Gualco was shown the red card at Tranmere . |
| 29 | Matthew Le Tissier is in danger of wrecking his England hopes after being sent off in Southampton 's FA Cup defeat at Norwich just a month after England manager Graham Taylor lectured him about his approach . |
| 30 | And who drove off in Barak 's Peugeot ? ’ |