Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This clash between the old rivals seldom got off the ground in terms of entertainment value , but the more adventurous team won the day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We can imagine animals like these darting through the undergrowth in search of food while the colossal reptiles lumbered obliviously around them . |
| 6 | Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems . |
| 7 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |
| 8 | I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A number of Jewish cemeteries were vandalized during the summer in Baden-Württemberg , and in December in Berlin . |
| 14 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 15 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 16 | Associated with cost is the gap that has developed between the ways in which essentially the same text is used by different groups of people . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Lifestyle studies like these are usually the source of the acronyms such as ‘ yuppies ’ , ‘ dinkies ’ , ‘ glams ’ , etc. , that have been enthusiastically bandied about the media in recent years . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | The situation had been compounded during the elections in the previous month when the Nationalist had taken seventy-three seats out of a total of one hundred and five , and out of those , forty-two of those elected were in jail for various offences related to their opposition of the British presence in Ireland . |
| 22 | Now I can not bear the darkness and have to keep on relighting the candle , fumbling for the matches in the total darkness . |
| 23 | Without conscious thought she found she was pushing her hands inside his shirt , fumbling for the buttons in a frenzy of haste which made him smile against her lips . |
| 24 | The soundtrack is industrial dance , the punters the kind of alternative/college crowd who presumably are about to go for The Shamen in a big way . |
| 25 | Preston drained his glass and decided to go for the bottle in the next interlude . |
| 26 | Rallying : Auriol flies off the track in Tuscany |
| 27 | Lightbown argues on the basis of all the published evidence that Piero 's National Gallery ‘ Baptism of Christ ’ was painted for the Pieve in Sansepolcro ( which was the only church in the town where baptisms were performed before 1520 ) and not the Priory of San Giovanni Battista d'Afra as most , including Bertelli , believe . |
| 28 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 29 | These results suggest that ( allowing for the differences in trading hours between markets ) , information from foreign stock markets is reflected in the Finnish index futures market within a few hours , but not in the underlying spot market . |
| 30 | Allowing for the differences in stance has far more chance of success : then it is just a question of deciding which way the ball will fly from certain lies . |