Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phoebe dealt with Maggie 's immediate needs and took her trousers off to soak in the bathroom . |
| 2 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |
| 3 | She put her name down to speak in the great debate about the state of the English Faculty that was held in the University Senate ; and in the Cambridge University Reporter for the 18th February , 1981 , occupying a column and a half of small print , sandwiched between contributions from two of the University 's most distinguished professors , you may find Robyn 's impassioned plea for a radical theorization of the syllabus . |
| 4 | I allowed my eyes to travel slowly up the length of the chimney breast , tilting my head back to take in the upper reaches , and my hat fell off . |
| 5 | His fingers drew strands of hair out to glitter in the firelight . |
| 6 | Every so of ten the dog would break away and belt off to splash in the shallows or to investigate something smelly , thrown up by last night 's tide . |
| 7 | Can he give some assurances that there will be coherent planning to make sure that there are no vulnerable people er affected in this way , in the transition over to care in the community ? |
| 8 | Gloria was officially still at school but took most afternoons off to help in the shop , for which she got paid . |
| 9 | There used to be a Circuit bicycle , kept in Thomas Street , for the use of visiting Edgehill students down to preach in the country churches . |
| 10 | He was relegated to the back of the grid , but fought his way through to finish in the top 10 . |
| 11 | The first is the ‘ Austin Special ’ , drawn up by Ted Newman-Jones in Texas and sporting a six-in-line headstock , three of those shimmery-sounding lipstick-tube pickups and a body that looks like someone left a black Les Paul out to melt in the sun , and the second is our review guitar , the Chandler ‘ 555 ’ . |
| 12 | I stripped off , laid my clothes out to dry in the sun , and cooled myself in the loch ; then , standing on a rock , I surveyed the magnificent view , sure that the effort involved in reaching the loch had been more than repaid by its utter peace and serenity . |
| 13 | It is therefore not surprising that he should here stress the psychological aspects of pain and its control rather than the nuts and bolts of nociceptors , unmyelinated afferents , spinothalamic tracts and those splendid phrases designed to send medical students back to sleep in the belief that they now understand pain mechanisms . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , let our Jimmy down to pee in the sink then . ' |
| 15 | Above all , August is a month to take some time out to relax in the garden and reap the rewards of all the hard work you put in earlier in the season . |