Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | America and Germany are countries which are particularly good at recruiting and keeping in regular contact with their supporters , which makes it far easier to galvanise them when you need them most in the run-up to an election . |
| 2 | You must have disturbed them right in the act . " |
| 3 | And if you 're in the middle of a supermarket , you can talk to them right in the middle of a supermarket . |
| 4 | I did put my shoes on cos I thought I sha n't get them on in a minute because my feet swell when I sit down . |
| 5 | Pot up the small young plants as ‘ plugs ’ and grow them on in a frame or a greenhouse — or even in a wooden box covered with polythene . |
| 6 | I put them on in the afternoon ; my mother became very silent . |
| 7 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 8 | No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match . |
| 9 | The way to get the maximum flavour out of dried apricots is to bake them slowly in the oven instead of stewing them . |
| 10 | It is also quick enough to get me somewhere in a hurry if I 'm called out on an emergency . |
| 11 | We are seven in number altogether , with me right in the middle . |
| 12 | ‘ You will land me right in the shit if you do n't fill this up . |
| 13 | Why , once he looked me right in the face and sneered . |
| 14 | His hobby was breeding bees and one day he brought them in in a glass cabinet and he was saying , ‘ These are the workers and this is the queen bee , and they fly out of the window and come back with pollen and they make honey . ’ |
| 15 | And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case . |
| 16 | Well I 'll be able to take them down in a minute . |
| 17 | He saw things in a flash and put them down in a sentence or at most a paragraph . |
| 18 | Women motorists have been urged to be vigilant after two women were raped after three men flagged them down in a country lane in Bedfordshire . |
| 19 | At eighteen it 's so easy to romanticise things and put them down in a song . |
| 20 | Such posts might not carry a large salary , for although Henry VIII had evidently raised the wages of household officials , Elizabeth held them down in a period of rising prices . |
| 21 | Write them down in a list ( a ) , ( b ) , ( c ) , ( d ) . |
| 22 | Yeah the thing is I 've got ta write them down in the order in which they appear . |
| 23 | Take them down in the kitchen and do them down there . |
| 24 | And erm she said all right and I said what do I do with them and she said I 'll put them down in the base at the back and I said all right so I went back on the shop floor just before I was coming out come out . |
| 25 | In the wild , a fish can get around this problem by absorbing much bigger molecules and then breaking them down in the gut wall or bloodstream . |
| 26 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 27 | We used to chop them down in the slaughterhouse on two pulleys , you see . |
| 28 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 29 | All of them enthusiastic — questions are coming think and fast , not at the end of a lecture — I think we actually slightly dominate them because we 're not school teachers , but quote with a big U ‘ University lecturers ’ , but get them down in the laboratory and the questions come thick and fast from boys and girls — no difference whatsoever . |
| 30 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |