Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends talked the matter over far into the night and then went home , to their families or to the loneliness of dingy bed-sitting rooms , to carry on the debate in diaries and notebooks , poems and letters . |
| 2 | Strictly , the Revenue can argue that s343 does not apply until the hive-up agreement has become unconditional and been completed in accordance with its terms ( for example , the novating of liabilities and obtaining of third party consents ) , since s343 requires Newco to carry on the trade in succession to the transferor , not merely beneficially own it . |
| 3 | There was a small mirror hanging on the door in which she combed her hair ; a woman liked to look her best even at work . |
| 4 | Suddenly the memory of the négligé hanging on the door in Luke 's house and Elise 's painting in the corridor outside his room struck a chill . |
| 5 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 6 | The merger with the CBSI should slow down the fall in membership and thus the subscription base , though the eventual impact on reserves is hard to forecast . |
| 7 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 8 | The Court of Appeal laid down the law in these terms in Gibbons and Others v South West Water Services Ltd [ 1992 ] PIQR P 224 . |
| 9 | Maggie laid down the job in hand and wiped her forehead . |
| 10 | She fought down the lump in her throat , and summoned a smile as Rose came quickly forward , drawing the animal 's bark . |
| 11 | Adrian Gozzard , ex-Plessey , also expressed a preference for consultants who took responsibility for all parts of the search , bringing in the business in the first place and the , closely supervising the research . |
| 12 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 13 | But Beaumont is already confident that the eight-year-old will make a bold bid to pull off the feat in 12 months ' time . |
| 14 | Have you considered the harm you may be causing to people , tearing up the past in this way ? |
| 15 | KEVIN Keegan has lodged a substantial bid for an unnamed player but wo n't tie up the deal in time for Saturday 's home game with Brighton . |
| 16 | Top up the level in the bucket to five gallons with cold water . |
| 17 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 18 | Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize . |
| 19 | Dreyfus built up the business in the face of fierce competition and the company won a well deserved place in the aniline field , which lasted for over 90 years . |
| 20 | so then the housekeeper phoned up the doctor in October |
| 21 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 22 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 23 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 24 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 25 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 26 | but you , you 've , you build up the strength in yourself and believe that your , your in vulnerable and then to find out that you are vulnerable , it really scary |
| 27 | Warm up the oil in a cup , standing in hot water ( either buy a sachet of hair treatment oil , or use almond oil ) . |
| 28 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 29 | I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside . |
| 30 | Maximum impact through minimum statement is what Armani is all about — and the maestro himself lives out the philosophy in his personal life . |