Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 2 | The old bat led me astray in more ways than one . |
| 3 | Attempts to energise old materials by bringing them together in new ways compete with experiments in new materials , such as electronics and rapid hardening plastics . |
| 4 | So fascinated has he become that he 's painted nothing else in all that time . |
| 5 | Ryle 's point is that , since the terms ‘ mind ’ and ‘ body ’ are not of the same category , it is illegitimate to relate them logically in this way . |
| 6 | However , we shall not discuss them further in this book . |
| 7 | Oh no — I would n't want to be responsible for landing someone else in this mess . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I expect she would laugh her socks off if she found you here in royal regalia ! ’ |
| 9 | As she made her way across to the church steps she found herself suddenly in bright sunlight and away from the crowds . |
| 10 | On the smaller scale of his country villa , Richardson himself was equally active , earning the admiration of Miss Talbot who visited him there in 1756 : |
| 11 | Jahangir now meets Chris Dittmar , who beat him twice in last month 's world championships . |
| 12 | What a bloody fool I was to trust him even in this . ’ |
| 13 | However , Kolbe relented when Griess approached him again in 1856 after working in a tar distillery in Offenbach , and took him back . |
| 14 | Warwickshire are the current holders of the Championship , while Oxfordshire have won it once in 1979 and were runners up in 1984 . |
| 15 | The judge was unimpressed by the argument based on freedom of speech and the application of article 10 , and dismissed it summarily in these terms [ 1991 ] 4 All E.R. |
| 16 | This danger is particularly great in relation to procedural impropriety , and we shall discuss it again in that context . |
| 17 | Rather than discuss it again in this report , we shall briefly recall the main points of those of its conclusions relating specifically to credit : |
| 18 | Disseminators of " indecent " material which lacks the potency to corrupt are generally within the law so long as they do not despatch it by post , or seek to import it from overseas , or flaunt it openly in public places . |
| 19 | Taylor can describe it only in general outline . |
| 20 | The Bush administration was vocal in its opposition to the proposal and , backed by massive lobbying by foreign governments and investors , defeated it early in each legislative session . |
| 21 | The Hardys left Swanage early in 1876 but visited it again in 1892 , when they attended a meeting of the Dorset Field Club and ‘ were introduced to old Mr B(urt) , ‘ the King of Swanage ’ ’ . |
| 22 | He would lash out at her and afterwards hide himself away in some shady corner where he would sit , his head lowered to his knees , engulfed in a dangerous brooding mood that lingered until the day 's end . |
| 23 | That 's why he shuts himself away in that lonely place . ’ |
| 24 | Zimbabwe , which favours the legalization of trade in rhino and elephant products , is to store the horns in the hope of being able to sell them legally in due course . |
| 25 | By that they mean that multiplying them together in either order would have to give the same result . |
| 26 | Lastly they took the Minister and his wife , Jan , and drove them fast in separate cars across the Churchill Barriers that block the eastern approaches to Scapa Flow , to Kirkwall , the county town on Orkney 's mainland . |
| 27 | I knew it was 2.06 a.m. because the bedside clock told me so in orange digits big enough to divert aircraft if the curtains had been open . |
| 28 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |
| 29 | But apart from that pick and mix they do n't do nothing else in small things |
| 30 | What we did at that point , was to get together a task force of people to examine the idea and where it was going : the people doing the work and the people who were likely to understand the most likely market — put them together in one room to reason their way through to the fact that we really ought to drop the project . |