Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 2 | At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up . |
| 3 | It got off the ground in Berlin in 1982 despite an atmosphere of increasing pressure on funds for all forms of higher education in Berlin as elsewhere in West Germany . |
| 4 | This clash between the old rivals seldom got off the ground in terms of entertainment value , but the more adventurous team won the day . |
| 5 | Franco Ferrero wishes to apologize for the delay in sending out his Kayak & Mountain brochure but by now it should be on the way to all who requested it . |
| 6 | We can imagine animals like these darting through the undergrowth in search of food while the colossal reptiles lumbered obliviously around them . |
| 7 | I think we 're going to go as a council in the direction of not answering letters on time . |
| 8 | There are other images , too : he mentions the " ailanthus " , one of which stood in the yard of the Mary Institute where he had once played , and the " briar rose " by his father 's house in Gloucester ; in addition , he employs words like " rote " or " groaner " which he had heard as a child in New England . |
| 9 | Ireland is still witnessed as a state in some indefinable way opposed to England . |
| 10 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 11 | As a membership incentive and to mark our 35th year as a Society everyone who enrols as a member in 1987 will receive a free gift . |
| 12 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 13 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 14 | Or whether you 've had to wait for an hour in the rain for the bus to come along , whether you 're in a good mood or a bad mood . |
| 15 | I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road . |
| 16 | The campaign of the Conservative candidate , Richard Hickmet , was criticized for the way in which it dwelt on the controversial claim that it would be a " moral victory for terrorism " if the seat were to change hands as a result of the killing of Gow . |
| 17 | In 1891 , an obelisk of Aberdeen granite was erected as a memorial in place of the headstone . |
| 18 | Competition in the British market for water today is a reality with some forty plus rivals complet competing for a share in this growth area . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 20 | You know , I ca n't stay for a week in silence . |
| 21 | Then there was the time Joe Hulme asked if he could stay for the weekend in his native Lancashire after an away match at Bolton . |
| 22 | The Prussians were horrified to learn that in Pomerania and Danzig the surviving Polish nobility were reluctant to work for the new authorities and much preferred to lease out their estates to tenant farmers while they lived off the income in Warsaw . |
| 23 | General Lu Han had 180000 troops with him and they lived off the country in the traditional Chinese manner , looting and exporting industrial plant to China . |
| 24 | A number of Jewish cemeteries were vandalized during the summer in Baden-Württemberg , and in December in Berlin . |
| 25 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 26 | In addition , a source and application of funds statement ( an example of which is shown in Fig. 2.3 ) is usually produced to show the various sources of funds received during the period in question and how those funds have been spent . |
| 27 | SFA has some very important rules as to who a firm should treat as a customer in these circumstances . |
| 28 | And one of the most important functions of information dynamics is precisely to link a sentence to its environment in a manner which allows the information to flow through the text in the desired manner . |
| 29 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 30 | The third narrative tells how George Meredith modelled for the corpse in the painting and how his wife then ran away with the painter ( see also the sonnets in Meredith 's Modern Love ) . |