Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctors said they did n't know how I managed to carry on in such pain . ’ |
| 2 | To begin your career with a book as wonderful as The House of Mr Biswas , and to carry on in such an unflinchingly individual way to produce a wonderful sardonic book like The Enigma of Arrival , is quite remarkable . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Insulting , then , ’ she agreed quietly , determined not to lose her temper , although if he was going to carry on in that vein the chances of her keeping it for very long were absolutely nil . |
| 4 | If Prince Charles wants to go on in this exhorting role , he has to understand architecture . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's hardly fair I should be required to go on in this way . |
| 6 | The normal way of classifying a child is by his Or her father 's profession , and this is essentially all we have to go on in this case . |
| 7 | I refuse to sit on in this house and be treated like Christopher Robin by her . ’ |
| 8 | Fifteen wickets were to go down in all that day , and although Gooch and Robinson made a sound start , once they were separated the procession continued as normal . |
| 9 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 10 | And , of course , the scientific approach through general laws and formulae has nothing to work on in this sort of context . |
| 11 | It is also a procedure that is beginning to catch on in other areas of a solicitor 's work . |
| 12 | By the mid-Eighties we were singing in English too , and we began to catch on in English-speaking countries . |
| 13 | The idea of using this matter-of-fact item as a matter of fashion has been slow to catch on in this country . |
| 14 | As the sun began to set over Auckland they took a short flight on a tiny seaplane , and the gold light enhanced the aerial view of Auckland as the lights began to come on in white wood houses , skyscrapers , hotels . |
| 15 | Specific points to concentrate on in either situation are described below . |
| 16 | " I 've asked Sir Geoffrey Gillington to come along in half an hour . " |
| 17 | In August ( immediately prior to Suharto 's National Day speech ) a group of prominent Indonesians , including many of the original " Petition of 50 " , had issued a public demand to Suharto to stand down in 1993 and to permit greater democracy . |
| 18 | Except that she 's got to clock in in five minutes time . |
| 19 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 20 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |
| 21 | The same Gary Player financially assisted a smiling Bantu by the name of Vincent Tshabalala to come over in 1976 . |
| 22 | If Mr McCrickard gets it right , the benefits of cost savings will begin to come through in 1991 . |
| 23 | Looking to the future , she warned that 1993 looked set to be a tougher year than last , ‘ Education funding in the UK looks less secure than in 1992 , and there are no major World Bank projects likely to come through in 1993 . |
| 24 | He hated the sun and used to curl up in shadowy places . |
| 25 | But ask one of the sergeants to come up in ten minutes to pack up the mallet for the Yard lab , will you ? |
| 26 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 27 | It is a good idea actually to write out in simple words the points that need to be made . |
| 28 | Maybe it was because they thought it was dangerous to stand out in any way from the crowd , in case fate was tempted to drop a crate on their heads . |
| 29 | We are being trained to stand back in humble awe from the work of nature , and not to interpose our alien human values . |
| 30 | ‘ Give me a chance to prove myself , Mrs Smelley , and then you would n't ‘ ave to come out in all weathers , when you suddenly discover you 've taken more bookin 's than you expected . ’ |