Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We live on the fourth floor of one building , in what , by Chinese standards , are luxurious conditions : we each have our own bedroom , living room , and bathroom , with drinking water , cigarettes , and thermos flasks of hot water ( for making Chinese tea ) laid on in the living room . |
| 2 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 3 | In practical terms this means The Fix can be placed in a horizontal crack with a large proportion of the stem sticking out and fallen on in the knowledge that the device has been specifically designed to give an increased safety margin . |
| 4 | The one whose house it was got taken away and the other one lived on in the house . |
| 5 | The present interior dates from 1852 when it was used by Emperor Ferdinand the Gracious , the last king of Bohemia who abdicated in 1848 in favour of his nephew but who lived on in the castle until his death , in 1875 . |
| 6 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 7 | I think it 's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it . |
| 8 | What these two exponents have in common is their deep concern for the education of children and their considerable reservations about what goes on in the name of education in our present institutions . |
| 9 | In addition to this , of course , there 's a good deal of energy research goes on in the campus , and erm there 's another unit which we call the Science Policy Research Unit . |
| 10 | Splitting ‘ But then Alison never discusses anything that goes on in the household . |
| 11 | And most of that goes on in the daytime |
| 12 | Because of the risk of rejection by the ITVA , the vast majority of commercials are first shown to them at script stage , and the discussion and negotiation that goes on in the majority of cases takes place on scripts alone . |
| 13 | How how can we tell , because as an officer , and this is this is Richard 's point , as an officer how do you know what goes on in the barrack room ? |
| 14 | The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user . |
| 15 | ‘ Please do n't ask me to explain what goes on in the mind of an Italian Water Board . |
| 16 | But in the end , higher education is a matter of what goes on in the mind of the individual ; it is essentially a personal affair . |
| 17 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 18 | Terms such as ‘ faggot ’ may be unacceptable to polite society in this age of political correctness , but clearly nothing has altered what goes on in the privacy of the popular conscience . |
| 19 | If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) . |
| 20 | What goes on in the bedroom remains strictly off-limits . |
| 21 | If communities can be thought of as houses , we are as concerned to discover what goes on in the bedroom , bathroom and kitchen as in the dining-room and sitting-room . |
| 22 | The law is too rigid and recognises too little of what goes on in the housing estates and back alleys of industrial towns . |
| 23 | Norbert , is British art influenced at all by what goes on in the Continent ? |
| 24 | do a quick kill on the tarmac and see what goes on in the town and then they move on |
| 25 | … while it is a fact that presently desks are usually moveable , thereby permitting various kinds of grouping arrangements , this flexibility is not often required by what actually goes on in the classroom . |
| 26 | The difficulty with such a conclusion is that one can claim authenticity for anything that goes on in the classroom , including mechanistic pattern practice and the recital of verb paradigms , on the grounds that it may be conducive to learning ( type 3 ) and a feature of the conventional classroom situation ( type 4 ) . |
| 27 | One view is that insider research calls for the free-ranging exploration of what goes on in the classroom without the constraint of any preconceived theory . |
| 28 | Fourthly , at the level of individual test items , a question can be asked about how well they represent the learning that goes on in the classroom . |
| 29 | It 's an environment , and it 's actually an activity that goes on in the classroom . |
| 30 | Now clearly not everything that goes on in the body or mind is voluntary . |