Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of us saw the year in in a hut halfway down the Greenstone valley ; the warden brewed her own beer , and brought us generous supplies of it ! |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll be in in a second . ’ |
| 3 | Miranda will be coming in in a minute . |
| 4 | You could fit in in a number of ways . |
| 5 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 6 | ‘ They would break in in a trice , while you were putting fresh shot in your fowling gun , and cut us into mincemeat . |
| 7 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 8 | His hobby was breeding bees and one day he brought them in in a glass cabinet and he was saying , ‘ These are the workers and this is the queen bee , and they fly out of the window and come back with pollen and they make honey . ’ |
| 9 | You 're to bring it in in a shovel . ’ |
| 10 | Newman 's trained reporter 's eye took all this in in a glance . |
| 11 | Never mind the boring breakbeat rubbish going around , this is the real story , which trips you up and hoses you down in a shower of sparkling special effects . |
| 12 | She sa Mick said fetch tape down , so I says alright , I 'll be down in a bit . |
| 13 | We had been getting it wrong , so were face down in a foot of water in the field doing press-ups . |
| 14 | He saw things in a flash and put them down in a sentence or at most a paragraph . |
| 15 | I walked inside and sat down in a hall , whitewashed and cool with a red-tiled floor . |
| 16 | Near the village of Higaturu , the mangled remains of a vehicle were found hanging upside down in a tree . |
| 17 | Came down in a tree and broke both his legs . |
| 18 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 19 | Women motorists have been urged to be vigilant after two women were raped after three men flagged them down in a country lane in Bedfordshire . |
| 20 | They put it down in a strip of shade and stood to attention on either side with their rifles . |
| 21 | Percy the park-keeper rescues the animals when their old oak tree is blown down in a storm , and the new house he builds for them is presented in a fold-away poster at the end of the book . |
| 22 | We had trees down in a storm . |
| 23 | The original tree survived until 1911 , when it was blown down in a storm . |
| 24 | ‘ When she had repeated herself five or six times , the CIA man slammed the phone down in a rage , and Reagan never learned what he had to say . ’ |
| 25 | The track had climbed , twisted , rocked her in its pot-holes and then swept down in a flurry of loose stones and flying dust , to a house gradually lit , theatrically , as the sun returned from behind a stray afternoon cloud . |
| 26 | Her head snapped back down in a flurry of bouncing coppery hair , her eyes warily searching Lucenzo 's face for some sign of compassion . |
| 27 | At eighteen it 's so easy to romanticise things and put them down in a song . |
| 28 | Place upside down in a dish and pour over the butter , sprinkle with salt and add a tablespoon of vermouth . |
| 29 | Tired and exhausted mentally and physically ; break down in a sweat and become excited and irritable . |
| 30 | It is alleged he was beaten with a horse whip when tied upside down in a barn , went hungry and was fed dog food from a bowl . |