Example sentences of "[vb base] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Real books are the books children encounter in story-telling sessions at home , in the library or play-group , and on children 's television — books that become part of the reader 's self , books to be remembered and revisited with anticipated pleasure . |
| 2 | She said oh we always sleep in separate beds here . |
| 3 | I have known between three and four dozen boys and girls sleep in one room . |
| 4 | I 'd imagine there 'd be people maybe down and outs maybe tramps sleep in that park with newspaper round them or something . |
| 5 | So she said , I 'll show you to your bedroom and there was two sisters , and she says , you sleep in that bed and you sleep in that bed . |
| 6 | So she said , I 'll show you to your bedroom and there was two sisters , and she says , you sleep in that bed and you sleep in that bed . |
| 7 | I ca n't get up out me bed any more without somebody helping me , so I sleep in that chair . |
| 8 | That I sleep in that chair ? |
| 9 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 10 | He gets eight hours sleep in three minutes . |
| 11 | ‘ Round yon virgin mother and child , holy infant so tender and mild , sleep in heavenly peace , slee-eep in heavenly peace , ’ they finished with a high-speed wail . |
| 12 | Because the Australian aborigines still exist at the hunter-gatherer level of culture they have no need for a weaning trauma in early childhood as is found among all primitive agriculturalists , and consequently children , although experiencing a period of oral dependency as they do in the West , linger in that stage , do not have to give it up and , in a sense , remain unweaned until adulthood — or , certainly until initiation , which is essentially the same thing . |
| 13 | By the same token , however , they may now be tacking fitfully back to growth while Germany and , to a lesser extent Japan , linger in relative doldrums . |
| 14 | Gently cook in hot sunflower oil for 3–4 minutes . |
| 15 | Chop onion , cook in olive oil until soft . |
| 16 | On March 20 Alfa Kartel , Romania 's largest independent trade union bloc , organized a protest march and rally in central Bucharest which was attended by some 5,000 people . |
| 17 | Lady 's Smock : These flowers are made up of four pink or lilac veined petals and grow in small clusters . |
| 18 | We will be watching this one grow and grow in future issues . |
| 19 | The yellowish horns are of medium length , growing outwards and then curving slightly forwards in the bull , and finer and well spread in the cow , whose horns grow in various directions but preferably level and turning upwards at the tips , which are black . |
| 20 | Grow in fertile soil , and if need be , mix in a little really well-rotted garden compost , sometime before planting , together with a scattering of a general organic fertilizer . |
| 21 | These will give the effect of the dense reeds which grow in many areas of East Asia . |
| 22 | Infrequent services will be used even less , and , as levels of car ownership grow in rural areas , so demand will continue to fail until the services may eventually be withdrawn . |
| 23 | One sees again and again that such people grow in outside interests . |
| 24 | Trees grow in all shapes and sizes and their timbers look very different . |
| 25 | lots of all , lots of wire and bricks and stones and old potatoes , you want to see potatoes that grow in that field , there 's never been potatoes in that field before , but there is , we throw all the dicey ones over the fence |
| 26 | Capillaries grow in several stages : they sprout from their parent vessels , grow larger , and form hollow and leak-proof vessels . |
| 27 | They grow in opposite formation on a thick , rounded stem . |
| 28 | As particles decrease in diameter through the silt and clay sizes they become increasingly cohesive as surface ionic charges grow in relative significance . |
| 29 | From the list given in the book , he chooses only herbs which grow in wet places that the fish would naturally have access to . |
| 30 | In the basins , such as this one , which are elevated from one thousand to two thousand feet above the sea , two species of acacia … grow in large numbers . |