Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two o'clock — I then sit down in front of the television with a pen and piece of paper and watch the schools programme which I like because you can have a rest from writing and reading . |
| 2 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 3 | if you go into the room sit down in front of the typewriter and the exam begins , and you do it you could pass easy , well I 've done it and I 've passed ! |
| 4 | Sizzle in vivid green and hot orange ; cool down in gingham |
| 5 | Cyrus we stand before your eternal dwelling to place to speak these solemn words ; sleep on in peace for ever , for we are awake and we remain to watch over your glorious heritage . |
| 6 | Many of these mature offspring of the root form work their way to the surface and those which are winged fly off in search of new vines . |
| 7 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |
| 8 | When I sit down they billow up in front of me and I look as if I 've got a water melon under there . |
| 9 | Such treatment does not improve germination ( they are protected by a hard endocarp during their animal passage ) , but seedlings grow up in dung piles in clearings : the species is shade-intolerant . |
| 10 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 11 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 12 | Instead of the tiny inputs required in motorway driving and even on minor roads , extend the R/T and you quickly discover there 's a rapid build up in understeer and loss of chassis composure , even before the road surface deteriorates . |
| 13 | Once formulated , they remain forever in the environment and build up in food chains and ultimately in our bodies . |
| 14 | Press back in place |
| 15 | Damian 's voice rose in fury as he strode to them , reached them and pushed Tony away from Rachel with a violence that made her cry out in horror as Tony stumbled backwards . |
| 16 | Those who lose heart and cry out in despair are reminded that Jesus is in command and that he will steer the little ship of the Church into calmer waters . |
| 17 | In our concern to manage the lives of others and our intention to do this in the best interests of all , we can too often simply define those who cry out in despair as moaners , as ‘ deviants ’ , ‘ defectives ’ , or as the lazy ones who have n't played the game in the way they should . |
| 18 | The bitter statement made her cry out in protest . |
| 19 | A huge steel crane hook suddenly descended quietly between their faces and made them both leap back in alarm . |
| 20 | There are grypesh out in force to the north . ’ |
| 21 | Eastwards towards the sunrise , the ice-hung peaks of Mustagh Ata and Kongur over in Sinkiang hunched on the skyline . |
| 22 | Scots squeeze through in Harp Masters |
| 23 | They point out that nursery rhymes are not nursery rhymes for nothing ; it could be that the genuine Turkish nursery rhyme is intrinsically more memorable than the nonsense rhyme ; nursery rhymes , after all , catch on in part because they have an innately pleasing rhythm . |
| 24 | But the symbolic period point is overstressed to the verge of comedy , when in the final scene of destruction the figures of Marianne with her red cap of Liberty , the skeleton Death with his scythe and the Angel of Justice are hastily let down in tableau from the flies . |
| 25 | But the symbolic period point is overstressed to the verge of comedy , when in the final scene of destruction the figures of Marianne with her red cap of Liberty , the skeleton Death with his scythe and the Angel of Justice are hastily let down in tableau from the flies . |
| 26 | As we read our participants ' accounts , the severity of retribution is to be understood against a background of the degree to which they feel let down in relation to their expectations of those they feel they should respect . |
| 27 | But the trousers were no ordinary trousers : they were whole-falls , that is , trousers with a flap that let down in front like a sailor 's . |
| 28 | All systems based on the ideal of equality break down in action : that is a point that might be expected of Waugh , but it is Orwell who makes it the more forcefully : ‘ Some animals are more equal than others ’ , as the pigs decree in Animal Farm , symbolising the easy self-justifications of Leninists in taking and keeping power . |
| 29 | The stems die down in autumn and the crown may need protection in hard winters . |
| 30 | Much of the literature on women and education tends to make this kind of distinction , arguing both for greater equality of access for girls and for changes in what are claimed to be inherently sexist curricula and values put over in school . |