Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 2 | Oh , I said to him look I said she obviously a person that takes no notice , but she lives out in the country . |
| 3 | She knew hat she would be flaunted before the whole of Northumberland if her mother had her way , so , although aware that good form dictated that she should dress down in the country , she took a deep breath and faced the fact that , for their first few outings at least , she would have to wear what Nora called her ‘ dressy ’ clothes . |
| 4 | Cara had grown up in the country too of course , but would n't walk anywhere if she could avoid it . |
| 5 | However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study . |
| 6 | Nenad Bucin , the representative for Montenegro and a strong supporter of the Serbian cause , similarly declared a boycott of the Collective State Presidency , stating that he could " not reconcile himself to the processes of deliberate disintegration " going on in the country . |
| 7 | A run out in the country |
| 8 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 9 | There was no reason , however , to link the unrest that was brewing up in the country with the Kamalian dictator . |
| 10 | ‘ Lovely bit of weather , ’ said her father , and her mother remarked that she always thought it so silly of them not to go out in the country more when they lived so near to it . |
| 11 | And the lads used to come , they used to do , in them days , you know , they wanted to go out in the country to get a bob or two . |
| 12 | He lived out in the country for a number of years , lived in poverty , erm , he thought about and he wrote about suicide . |
| 13 | The child is to be brought up in the country , and should learn by experience ; this is far better than sitting indoors , studying books . |
| 14 | Members of the Korean minority have started to question the exclusivity of a Japan which has denied citizenship and certain basic human rights even to those born and brought up in the country . |
| 15 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 16 | we were always brought up in the country , you know |
| 17 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
| 18 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
| 19 | Tartan carpet using the Cumbernauld Tartan was laid out in the Country Club and its connecting passages . |
| 20 | Fintan Cahill only arrived back in the country yesterday from Florida , scarcely the ideal championship preparation . |
| 21 | And a major problem is where will all the refugees go when they arrive back in the country . |
| 22 | By Easter heavy frosts had ended hopes of a good harvest that year , and in the summer and autumn food riots broke out in the country at large as the price of a quartern loaf — where one could be had at all — rose from 3d. to over 1s . |
| 23 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 24 | I had a bit of an interest in gardens because I grew up in the country at Drewsteignton , but I always think I was very lucky to get that job at Castle Drogo — straight in as a single-handed gardener with no experience . |
| 25 | ‘ I grew up in the country , ’ she murmured , not sure why she had told him that because it had no bearing on the subject . |
| 26 | He ca n't drink for six whole months , that 's why he has to get himself away from town and temptation and live out in the country . |
| 27 | Her whole life was acting — she 'll never settle down in the country . |
| 28 | I shall settle down in the country and build cottages , and mix draughts . ’ |
| 29 | There was a Victorian air about it somehow there were , there were quite ladies who 'd kept it , almost the same sort of thing as you 'd find out in the country , country Ye Olde Elizabethan Coffee Shop type of thing you know , they they 'd be the er there was that atmosphere about it and you 'd buy lovely cakes and things like that . |