Example sentences of "[vb base] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally I treated myself to a half hour browse in a bookshop . |
| 2 | ‘ When dancers sleep in a bed , |
| 3 | to slump in a heap or sleep in a hump . |
| 4 | Cook in a water bath at 350°F for about 30 minutes . |
| 5 | Cook in a water bath in an oven at 280°F for about 45 minutes . |
| 6 | Also rub a little Flora margarine over the outside of the skin and sprinkle with salt and pepper.Wrap loosely in foil and place the leg on a flat enamel pie plate and cook in a pre-heated moderately hot oven . |
| 7 | 4 Cover with foil and cook in a pre-heated over for 10 min . |
| 8 | The Geste brothers are stereotypes and may be laughed at with impunity : but Charles Wogan , as A. E. W. Mason saw him in Clementina , and the ingenuous John Ridd , self-revealing narrator of Lorna Doone , exemplify the intricacies of love and honour in a way that transcends period and social niceties . |
| 9 | I think the er figures also suggest in a way that |
| 10 | Poise is directly concerned with good deportment ; a poised person does not walk noisily or clumsily , slump in a chair , or sit or bend down in an ungainly manner . |
| 11 | Strain the custard to remove lumps or whiz in a blender for 60 seconds . |
| 12 | Grow in a pot , so you can take it indoors in winter . |
| 13 | Er , what you grow in a window boxes . |
| 14 | These grow in a rosette borne on a thick , cylindrical , horizontal rootstock . |
| 15 | Fly in a plane ! |
| 16 | She watched him sprawl in a cane chair on the terrace , light a cigar , and pick up a book , uncaring of the many and varied insects homing in on the light above him . |
| 17 | Lift the knife to make a space beneath and slip in a ribbon of pepper . |
| 18 | But you get the dose wrong , slip in a pinch too much , and you 're unconscious , just like that . ’ |
| 19 | The intention is to design equipment so that when the maintenance engineer then calls he , or she , should be able to read off from a display on the machine which circuit board has failed and then simply slip in a replacement . |
| 20 | Combine the gravadlax , cucumber and yogurt in a bowl , add salt and white pepper to taste . |
| 21 | Place the grated orange rind , cheese and yogurt in a bowl and beat together . |
| 22 | The Carol Andrews singers from Darlington appear in a charity concert in Bishop Auckland on May 3 to raise money for the South-West Durham Hospice Appeal . |
| 23 | Glass vessels appear in a variety of forms in graves and were classified by Harden ( 1956b ) into eleven types divided into three chronological groups , which have since been extended and reviewed ( Harden 1978 ) . |
| 24 | Topics as diverse as spectroscopy and nitrous acid appear in a range of publications , all attesting to the interest inherent in the subject of chemistry ( Table 2 ) . |
| 25 | According to Dow ( 1977 ) wet gases appear in a coalification range between 0.8 and 2.0% Rm ( Rm = mean random vitrinite reflectance ) dry gas deposits appear in the range 1.0–3.0 ( up to 3.5 ) % Rm . |
| 26 | Figures ( on this screen ) MUST NOT be passed onto a third party ( i.e. appear in a paper , report or thesis ) , or passed verbally to anyone not named on the Notice ( or other authorisation which allows you access to the census of employment data ) without DE branch D4 's WRITTEN authority . |
| 27 | that 's something , but this thing reaches publicity stage , which it could in a couple of weeks time , appear in a paper , you 'd have all sorts of weirdos |
| 28 | Advertisements appear in a number of different publications , principally the Law Society 's Gazette , which are available in public or university libraries . |
| 29 | These criticisms appear in a letter to the Home Office from the Faculty of Information Technology 's Technical Committee , in response to a request for comments on proposed revisions to the Directive . |
| 30 | The ordinary hyphen is used between words that are hyphenated wherever they appear in a line and when those words would be split by a line-ending at the hyphen-point : eg well-known , time-consuming , up-to-date . |