Example sentences of "[vb base] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos there is n't no ventilator in it , and that 's the one we sleep in cos we 're frightened of people coming through the back door in the night , you know kicking in the back door , so we sleep in the other room . |
| 2 | During the week I 'd get home late and sleep in the spare room — ‘ so as not to disturb her ’ . |
| 3 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
| 5 | They sleep in the same room with each other , and look beautiful when I am putting them to bed , jumping and hopping about quite naked , rejoicing in the freedom of no clothes . |
| 6 | " It should be obvious that in the crowded habitations of the poor , who live , cook , eat , and sleep in the same apartment and pay little regard to the washing of hands , the evacuations of cholera victims which are almost colourless and without odour can be passed from one person to another . |
| 7 | Even if you live and sleep in the same room , try to stay active . |
| 8 | As I linger in the grassy cart tracks joining two fields that sleep in afternoon idleness , the smell of Rayless Mayweed crushed underfoot overcomes the other pleasant hay and pasture odours . |
| 9 | We do n't have to talk literature , y'know — I 'd as leave hear news of America , parts of which still linger in the Carboniferous Age , I understand . ’ |
| 10 | Why ca n't you read involve in the English language I do not know . |
| 11 | Cook in the usual way and eat it |
| 12 | Cover and cook in the pre-heated oven for 2½–3hr , until the beef is tender . |
| 13 | Cover and cook in the pre-heated oven for 3½–4hr , until the venison is cooked and tender . |
| 14 | Bring to the boil , then cover and cook in the pre-heated oven for 2hr or until the beef is tender . |
| 15 | Marginal plants , as their name implies , grow in the shallow water at the pool 's edge and can either be grown in planting baskets , like waterlilies , or in soil that has been placed directly on the marginal shelf . |
| 16 | The almond trees grow in the fertile valleys of California , neatly planted in straight lines . |
| 17 | Night Goblins eat vast quantities of the multi-coloured fungi that grow in the dank caves where they live . |
| 18 | Things grow in the warm darkness , I said , but I prefer it cold and moonlit . |
| 19 | ‘ The crystals always grow in the same direction and then they are shaped , ’ they say . |
| 20 | Waterlilies and other deep-water aquatics grow in the deeper central portion of the pool . |
| 21 | They would drive the fastest , most perfectly balanced cars , fly in the fastest planes , live cushioned by every facility purchasable by great wealth . |
| 22 | In Germany , Peter Malinski has done the same , except that , whereas the Italian kites fly in the vertical plane , Peter 's are very wide span horizontal designs . |
| 23 | But now — who would have dreamt it ? the thaw is trickling , the great tit is ringing his bell from the top of a bare lime tree , the earth is scented ; and the hares bound and skip in the warm wind . |
| 24 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
| 25 | Fauve in the murky water , |
| 26 | The smells of incense , fruit , flowers and spices mingle in the hot air . |
| 27 | All Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland are entitled to vote if they are 18 , are resident in a parliamentary constituency on the qualifying date , and are not subject to any legal incapacity and appear in the appropriate register of electors . |
| 28 | We shall consider words , phrases and sentences which appear in the textual record of a discourse to be evidence of an attempt by a producer ( speaker / writer ) to communicate his message to a recipient ( hearer / reader ) . |
| 29 | These are SOURCE , PMODEL or FOREIGN modules which appear in the primary directory but which are not contained within any user-package . |
| 30 | Finally , if Imran Khan and Javed Miandad appear in the fifth tournament they will be the only players to have participated in all five World Cup tournaments . |