Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the drawing-room he took a great deal of persuading to sit down , and then , when Louise finally joined them , drifting in in her rose-silk dress , Grégoire seemed so overcome that he forgot to rise . |
| 2 | Music began with the beating of a tabor and the whistle of pipes , and then the servers began trooping in in their dozens with great platters of heaped food and jugs of ale . |
| 3 | He came in in his old trousers and nightshirt . |
| 4 | The Panel Chairman told the parents that their children were well , settling down in their foster homes , and that some were going to school . |
| 5 | My pair of Birchirs have now settled down in their new home and are feeding very well on a plentiful supply of garden worms . |
| 6 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 7 | When you look at it and they 're all traipsing up and down in their strange robes and saying silly things to each other , you know , that 's really weird but it 's all tradition , it 's all pageantry and it 's taught by the monarchy . |
| 8 | The ceremony was 6,000 miles from where Gail and children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Dina , 11 , were gunned down in their luxury home in San Diego , California . |
| 9 | In the second half Complicite let their hair down in their own inimitable way . |
| 10 | Many counties had drawn on their reserves to keep rate increases down in their own election year of 1989 . |
| 11 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 12 | Now whether Derry — and what looks like being a weakened Derry side , into the bargain — can overcome Down in their own back yard with so much at stake is another matter altogether . |
| 13 | It was with a certain amount of satisfaction that they settled down in their own kitchen and discussed their financial situation . |
| 14 | I du n no , as you say to see the culture things like that but it 's a bit difficult to put niggers down in their own country well what 's that then , is that , is that just the ferry between an island or something |
| 15 | But old timers fear a return to the violent , drunken days that saw Wild Bill Hickok gunned down in their local saloon . |
| 16 | She sat down in her usual corner . |
| 17 | " Well , if you do n't tell , I wo n't … " she smiled and then , tilting his head down in her small hands , kissed him . |
| 18 | A wild , violent delight that had intolerable hunger as its other side spasmed through her as the deep , slow throb low down in her slender body became a pounding , yearning ache that must be soothed , or she thought she would die . |
| 19 | Then he went back to the cutlery drawer and , with a skill born of long practice , lobbed knives and forks over to Maisie , who set them down in her customary eccentric manner . |
| 20 | With the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill still bogged down in its 13th day in committee , the back-bench loyalists vented their anger on the Tory rebels . |
| 21 | Whatever it was they went into the sea for , it was found way down in its ice-cold black depths . |
| 22 | Iraq 's nuclear plans seemed to go into abeyance while it was reactorless and still bogged down in its costly war against Iran . |
| 23 | The temple sits some fifty feet down in its own huge sandpit , buried for centuries until someone tripped over what turned out to be the top of a pillar . |
| 24 | His chosen vehicle is this great lather of a part-comedy , part-thriller , part exercise in rappin' and blasphemin' which lurches about before collapsing face down in its own vomit . |
| 25 | Institutions might even consider sanctions : museums could refuse to lend to an exhibition if the public body behind it is falling down in its conservation duties ( a recent likely candidate for boycotting would have been the Titian exhibition in Venice in 1989 ) . |
| 26 | So the family settled down in its definitive shape : father , mother , daughter and son . |
| 27 | It was a warm sunny evening on September 18th 1989 when I went to fetch Copper in from the paddock for his evening exercise before settling him down in his nice fresh shavings bed for the night . |
| 28 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
| 29 | Magureanu was not able to help Dobre settle down in his new calling as an apparatchik in the service of Ceauşescu , though he kept a ‘ paternal ’ eye on the erstwhile rebel over the next decade . |
| 30 | Mr Simons slumped down in his worn seat and looked up at me expectantly . |