Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
| 2 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
| 3 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 4 | I want to go through in chronological order , so I turn to the back of the stack and find the lowest deposit , the first record of the new Unit . |
| 5 | But I 've been on an immense number of statutory instruments upstairs er and everybody says they 're greatly needed , they usually say they 're greatly needed because they want to go out in three or four minutes and ten thirty comes and ten thirty five they 're out . |
| 6 | For a second the wind was blocked and the weight taken from my hands , only to come crashing back in double measure . |
| 7 | If Prince Charles wants to go on in this exhorting role , he has to understand architecture . ’ |
| 8 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 9 | ‘ We want to find out in more detail how severe the bone loss is , what factors protect against it , and what factors make it worse . ’ |
| 10 | She coughed loudly and said loudly , ‘ And I 'm gettin' frozen up in all these draughts . ’ |
| 11 | This is not the first time the issue of control has come up in this column but because yours is a sign that tends to resist going with the flow , all too often you meet people and circumstances that appear to block your path . |
| 12 | Thi this is something which has come out in several places I do n't know whether the members noted it , erm the er it also touches on , on , on what my colleague said earlier and the item in paragraph V er the assumption of the demand remain much as it is , heavily towards the South East particularly Gatwick . |
| 13 | How things went with them from then on we know from what has come out in public . |
| 14 | He carries only nine pounds more than in 1992 and despite being plagued by a wind problem since that success , has come back in great style after being ‘ tubed . ’ |
| 15 | It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition . |
| 16 | It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ . |
| 17 | The Alumni Foundation concerts are a new and pleasant tradition which has grown up in recent years . |
| 18 | One of the reasons that Britain habitually trails in this sort of event is the culture of dogged amateurism that has grown up in recent years . |
| 19 | The franchise is a form of business which has grown up in recent years and offers the would-be entrepreneur what may at first sight appear to be an easy way to start up in business . |
| 20 | Since then it has turned up in Kenyan tobacco plantations where safety precautions are impractical and widely ignored . |
| 21 | That 's the thing that needs bucking up in this school … |
| 22 | Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich . |
| 23 | The business of claiming from a company is becoming wrapped up in more and more paperwork and bureaucracy . |
| 24 | The ceremony has died out in many areas over the past hundred years , so it was a good idea to revive it.There 's cider and singing and it 's good fun . |
| 25 | The British Technology Group , formed by a merger of the National Enterprise Board and the National Research Development Council , has invested in in small firms in electronics . |
| 26 | In fact , it 's a term that could be aptly used to describe that whole flowery genre of catch-all fiddle-and-flute pop that has sprouted up in this country since Mike Scott first became an executive member of An Bord lascaigh Mhara . |
| 27 | The phosphate reserves on Nauru , the island 's only natural resource and source of income , are expected to run out in five or ten years . |
| 28 | As the trade union movement has found out in recent times , sometimes to its painful cost , modern capitalism and exploitation does not recognize international frontiers and employers and their political supporters are not slow to export their practices to countries whose borders have previously been closed to them . |
| 29 | ‘ Why would they need to dump out in this God-forsaken place ? |
| 30 | John Child ( 1984 , Chapter 1 ) has set out in some detail the requirements for the formulation and successful implementation of managerial plans . |