Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And as it is the first case to come up in Scotland , it could help other people in the same circumstances . ’ |
| 3 | Before you load up your board on the car to go off in search of solitude , remember that it is wisest to sail in a controlled situation with plenty of others to keep an eye on you . |
| 4 | Counting the cost of a fire which has brought his business to a standstill and caused ten years of research to go up in smoke . |
| 5 | Here the combined efforts of Richard Acland , Liberal MP for a neighbouring constituency , and the local Left Book Club helped to persuade the local Liberal and Labour parties to stand down in favour of Vernon Bartlett , a journalist , broadcaster and former employee of the LNU . |
| 6 | He based his case on the EAT 's decision in Laughton v Bapp Industrial Supplies Ltd [ 1986 ] IRLR 245 , which said that an employee did not breach his duty of loyalty merely by indicating an intention to set up in competition with the employer in the future . |
| 7 | According to Stuart Reid of Weatherall Green & Smith , the first property agent to open up in Berlin , the scheme will appeal to the banking , insurance and professional sectors . |
| 8 | DIY inquiry : A public inquiry into a top DIY chain store 's bid to set up in Stockton opens today in the town hall . |
| 9 | There are so many beautiful designs available and would n't it be lovely to have a really good stock to draw on in September ? |
| 10 | A large proportion of the available Scottish medieval material has been published and these printed sources will allow much of the work to go on in Oxford , but subsequent work on manuscript sources , especially in London , Durham , Edinburgh and Aberdeen is envisaged . |
| 11 | This is a cut-and-thrust spectacle where as many as 24 kites out of 25 have been cast off , their lines to float down in defeat within twenty minutes . |
| 12 | But after two years , the frustrations of the job led Selina to move on in search of a new challenge . |
| 13 | He did n't want his sons to grow up in Germany . |
| 14 | What is important is that I was so surprised by my opponent 's failure to fall over in agony that I was unable to stop him attacking me . |
| 15 | The second point to bear in in mind when we consider what influences children 's consumption is the question of access and the tightening of that access . |
| 16 | The defence counsel , Mark Stewart , said that Forman , a self-employed painter and decorator , had borrowed money from Glasgow loan-sharks to set up in business . |
| 17 | It was a perfect Autumn day as the Association 's Flight led the parade down the Mall to form up in front of Buckingham Palace . |
| 18 | At the same time , military service had taken its toll in many American Boardrooms : inevitably , far fewer returned than had originally joined up , their ranks thinned by death on active service , by the desire to stay on in uniform and by retirement . |
| 19 | As you may imagine , the Post Office network of 20,000 branches needs vast amounts of cash to pay out in pensions and benefits . |
| 20 | Anisette is not a liqueur which , speaking at least for myself , one has a great compulsion to swig down in quantity ; in my cupboard a bottle lasts for years . |
| 21 | This causes onlookers to despair , and TV schedules to go up in smoke , which ca n't please Philip Morris , the sponsor . |
| 22 | Difficulties were encountered both in finding small mammal bone to work on in caves , and in identifying , with sufficient precision , the processes acting on the bone . |
| 23 | Such policies would involve government intervention to provide better training and job information to reduce occupational immobility , and grants to firms to set up in areas of high unemployment to reduce regional imbalances . |
| 24 | Jelfs originally helped SCO to set up in Australia and has been poached by Univel to be its number one employee in the Asia/Pacific region , responsible for everywhere except Japan . |
| 25 | This team came into being to fulfil a need in the Society for a means of showing our work at the very best level ; a group of performers who practise regularly together and have the facility to form up in teams of varying number according to the need at the time . |
| 26 | Increase her painkillers to a dangerous level , make do with the district nurses and hope she does n't fall again , which is , in fact , her best chance to get back in hospital ! |
| 27 | It would not do you any credit to stay on in Munich without an appointment . |
| 28 | It reads like a confirmation present specially written by a malicious , rakehell uncle for a serious-minded adolescent with ambitions to get on in society . |
| 29 | Well , now 's your chance to step out in style and dazzle your friends . |
| 30 | There is nothing wrong with such fear if it leads a Christian to cry out in weakness to God and exercise faith . |