Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A Director will cast this type of actress because he knows that is the kind of personality he wants brought out in this character , and he can rely on that actress to give just such a performance . |
| 32 | In its citation , the Nobel Committee ( of the Norwegian parliament , which awarded the Peace Prize ) said that it wished to honour Gorbachev for his " many and decisive contributions " to East-West relations and " for the greater openness he has brought about in Soviet society " . |
| 33 | In the face of this central problem , the valuable work that has gone on in recent years in narratology , and other aspects of fictional form , is curiously difficult to apply in practice . |
| 34 | ‘ It is something which has gone on in this force for almost two years but has now reached epidemic proportions and something has to be done , ’ he declared . |
| 35 | CalMac 's managing director , Colin Paterson , points out that his is possibly the only nationalised industry whose grant has gone down in real terms . |
| 36 | Abraham has gone down in Christian tradition as one of the great men of faith . |
| 37 | HARDLY a week has gone by in recent months without some new development in home video . |
| 38 | The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week . |
| 39 | I really expect to get back in three or four days and I will try and hang on to the holiday . |
| 40 | I was thinking for instance in the context of Sri Lanka , where I was born , that there is n't a straight forward national liberation struggle , there are lots of problems such as militarism which the women 's movement has taken on in various ways and played a major part in combating . |
| 41 | ‘ I just want to get around in one piece . |
| 42 | However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other . |
| 43 | Fortunately the Christian church is not dominated by theologians , but by the praying faithful , and the Divine Drama , although suffering numerous attacks and emendations , has lived on in popular spirituality and liturgy . |
| 44 | However , since nothing substantial has seeped out in this porous capital , that 's doubtful . |
| 45 | Everything he designed stood out in majestic size , and in every way passed beyond human values into the transcendent . |
| 46 | last I got moved back in last night . |
| 47 | Coverage is further restricted because the same titles tend to crop up in each paper . |
| 48 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 49 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 50 | I have spent quite some time considering the best format for the book and , after much deliberation , have decided to set out in bold type the precedents clause by clause interspersed with my own comments , followed , once again in bold type , by my suggested amendments to the particular parts of the precedents , where those amendments are not readily identifiable from my comments in the text . |
| 51 | Women passengers who 'd nodded off in full make-up emerged with faces crumpled and ankles swollen . |
| 52 | Handel is playing on the CD and candles are lit , and the most beautiful children I have ever seen scurry about in pink and cream pyjamas . |
| 53 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 54 | Felt broke up in 1989 , not because of the usual tired catalogue of ‘ musical differences ’ or drug problems , but because it was written in the stars that they would break up . |
| 55 | It was a long time since he 'd eaten out in this style and he was shocked by the escalation of prices and VAT . |
| 56 | Often , as the night drew on , a number of people were seen to lie down in odd places , both in Partisan Street and on the Embankment . |
| 57 | The Marlborough , Massachusetts-based company will use Precision Architecture in future high-end machines which it plans to roll out in 1994 or 1995 . |
| 58 | I thought you 'd taken off in that spaceship of yours . ’ |
| 59 | His hands and feet seemed to be constantly moving in almost impossibly splendiferous patterns , his eyes shone like June blackberries and there was music in his voice which seemed to roll up in great hopeful waves from deep in his abdomen . |
| 60 | They 'd crossed a highway while there was no traffic , they 'd blundered around in damp undergrowth , scurrying away from every chirp and mysterious croak , and finally they 'd found the plastic . |