Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton seven hours after her ordeal began … |
| 2 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton . |
| 3 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 4 | Irenius begins his account with an expression of anxiety which reveals a number of linked issues which constantly crop up in Spenser 's writing : the establishment and maintenance of true religion and civilisation within a pattern of human development predetermined by the divine . |
| 5 | It was rightly pointed out in argument that Farquharson L.J . |
| 6 | " Other candidates tend to write out a plan which is lengthy in the extreme , only to write out in sentence form the plan as an answer . " |
| 7 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 8 | They were both so caught up in developments at Crystal Springs that it was sometimes hard for Christina to recall that Stephen still had a stake in a totally separate business empire in England — one that Robert seemed to be finding increasingly hard to administer in his partner 's prolonged absence , though Stephen still kept a very firm grip on English events from Barbados . |
| 9 | Every morning Vic drives over the flattened site of his Gran 's house and passes at chimney-pot level the one in which he himself grew up , where his widower father still stubbornly lives on in spite of all Vic 's efforts to persuade him to move , like a sailor clinging to the rigging of a sinking ship — buffeted , deafened and choked by the thundering torrent of traffic thirty yards from his bedroom window . |
| 10 | Did you stop to think that there is more than enough going on in Cambodia to make people reflect pretty carefully about participating in the election at all — and that the fact that 4.7m of them registered ( for which they received nothing whatsoever in material terms ) might just suggest that they really would like to exercise the vote ? |
| 11 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 12 | So there ca n't be much going on in Thirsk and Leyburn . |
| 13 | He reached in with both hands , only to shrink back in horror when he encountered something cold and clammy beneath his hand . |
| 14 | We know of one in Vietnam where they 're literally towed around in tanks . ’ |
| 15 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 16 | This argument , based apparently upon the particular circumstances of a young woman in New Zealand whose daughter was unfortunate enough to grow up in care , itself an unusual experience , is dangerous and partial stuff . |
| 17 | But if the Franks were the dominant partner it is difficult to explain why so much material should have been channelled towards England with little apparently going back in return . |
| 18 | She insists that even with the provisions of such a charter the idea ‘ can only work out in reality if both partners , in fact , share [ the childcare ] , because there is not much point in allowing women the opportunity of going further up the ladder if they continue to have almost sole responsibility for childcare . ’ |
| 19 | He only arrived back in England on Tuesday from his sunny Tenerife training camp . |
| 20 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 21 | By mid-March the operation was literally bogged down in mud and confusion , allowing the Republicans to mount a counter-offensive . |
| 22 | His humour constantly breaks through in asides and anecdotes , as does a delightful and mastering smile that transforms his face like Aegean sunlight on a frowning sea . |
| 23 | Once she suddenly landed up in hospital for what was not an emergency ; several times she had found herself in a new home ; and on one occasion she had arrived in another country with a new ‘ father ’ — all without warning or previous explanation . |
| 24 | When the biggest set of the day came through , well over thirty feet but still well-formed , Doerner , Foo , and Bradshaw all set off in pursuit . |
| 25 | The most interesting aspect of the civil development is the recognition of several elements of a possible internal street grid , apparently laid out in line with or at right angles to the Fosse Way . |
| 26 | The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 . |
| 27 | The " I am lay " is a very old ritual that in other countries you can only read about in history books . " |
| 28 | The others suggest this is n't such a good idea but I get the impression they think this mainly because he 'd only end up in prison . |
| 29 | English Heritage says , however , that since the publication of the strategy , they have had seventeen expressions of interest from local authorities and that they will only hand over in cases where they are sure that maintenance will be adequate and public access guaranteed : ‘ We will do everything we can to assist those authorities that need help by giving guidance and support — which could include pump-priming of posts … |
| 30 | ‘ There are people who feel strongly enough to lie down in front of bulldozers , ’ she said . |