Example sentences of "[verb] in the [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some features included in the Once-Over design were remarkably advanced for a tractor manufactured before 1920 . |
| 2 | My second disaster of the trip happened in the very minute of taking the camper van onto the road . |
| 3 | A second cause of differentiation is illustrated by the way in which ‘ primordial germ cells ’ are formed in the fruitfly Drosophila . |
| 4 | For example when , as a journalist , I visited couples in their homes to ask about local events , my conversations with women would often be interrupted by their husbands holding up their hands in the direction of their wives and saying in the most matter of fact way ‘ Be quiet , ’ and then turning to me and saying ‘ There is no point in asking my wife . |
| 5 | The television personality won £200 for the North Tees Scanner Appeal and hoping his good fortune would last for the rest of the day he put £50 on Middlesbrough to beat Manchester United at odds of 3–1 , and £150 on Robins Son , running in the 4pm race at Catterick . |
| 6 | Over £100,000 was spent on the campaign , which ran for six months , and culminated in the then Chancellor Nigel Lawson 's smug remark , following the Budget in March 1985 , that he had never had any intention of imposing a tax on books . |
| 7 | Two separate major rebellions were centred in the predominantly Shia southern provinces of Iraq and in the Kurdish northern provinces . |
| 8 | As Gwenellen now worked in the Out Patients Department , which closed at 6 P.M. from Mondays to Fridays and at 12.30 on Saturdays , she was enjoying one of the most envied and regular off-duty shifts in the hospital . |
| 9 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 10 | And her article , published in the bi-monthly journal of the Institution of Nuclear Engineers , has won the institution 's Pinkerton Award . |