Example sentences of "[verb] in the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could n't you just leave the whisky , I 'll drink it all , wake up in the morning no , make that the afternoon — with a head that feels like you hit me over the skull with the bottle , and you sleep in the car ready for that long and demanding journey down the notoriously dangerous A74 tomorrow ? ’ |
| 2 | The offender drove up behind the victim as she was walking in the street one evening with her daughter , aged two and a half , and attacked her with a hammer , striking her two blows on the leg and one on the knee . |
| 3 | He would jump in the river first . |
| 4 | Its essential components are a two-stranded antiparallel β -ribbon that lies in the DNA major groove , two outer A helices available to make cooperative interactions with adjacent proteins along the DNA , and two inner B helices forming the subunit interface . |
| 5 | Thus poly ( styrene-stat-acrylonitrile ) will form miscible blends with poly ( methyl methacrylate ) if the composition of the copolymer lies in the range 10–39 wt% acrylonitrile . |
| 6 | A major drawback of this approach lies in the danger inherent in estimating and equating final ‘ maturities ’ attained by samples after heating in the laboratory with maturities produced under geological conditions ( Snowdon 1979 ) . |
| 7 | His wife was lurking in the basement all the time Eleanor was there , so that he did not feel safe getting close . |
| 8 | As he had stressed in The Rock this was not in the sense of information , but rather in the sense of consciousness of values ; and he deplored a situation where the term society implied simply a group of ‘ well connected ’ and affluent people , which had almost no relation to that other group or society which maintained moral and intellectual standards , which for him was the church . |
| 9 | Some commentators suspected that this initiative was aimed at winning parliamentary support from militant Tamils ; several of the 13 Tamil MPs grouped in the Eelavar Democratic Front ( previously the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students — EROS ) ended in late September the parliamentary boycott they had maintained since mid-1990 [ see p. 37611 ] . |
| 10 | For 1981 , the graph , representing in the main those born during the twentieth century , was more rectangular . |
| 11 | It also involves rescheduling the whole programme so that decisions on commitments to production can be deferred until nineteen ninety five , with first deliveries to United Kingdom and Italy occurring in the year two thousand and to er Spain and Germany in two thousand and two . |
| 12 | According to Dow ( 1977 ) wet gases appear in a coalification range between 0.8 and 2.0% Rm ( Rm = mean random vitrinite reflectance ) dry gas deposits appear in the range 1.0–3.0 ( up to 3.5 ) % Rm . |
| 13 | The areas were also ranked according to the deterioration of their position in three constituent parts of the period 1971–84 ; Liverpool , Sunderland , Belfast and Glasgow appear in the bottom ten in all sub-periods . |
| 14 | Details on the station , its scientific programmes and data summaries appear in the Baseline Atmospheric Program annual reports . |
| 15 | But Reilly will want old hands Ellery Hanley , Martin Offiah and skipper Garry Schofield to steady the side in the intense atmosphere expected in the opening 20 minutes . |
| 16 | Microsoft also now plans a new version of MS-DOS for early next year that will lack most of the features that had been expected in the MS-DOS 6.0 release , such as multi-tasking , and the company will now offer its object-oriented Cairo environment only for NT , and not for MS-DOS . |
| 17 | Further unrest was expected in the town last night , as evenings have been the peak periods for the protests over the past five days . |
| 18 | Any coat sufficed in the winter '68/'69 : army jackets ; donkey jackets ; your dad 's five sizes too big tweed work coat ; army and RAF great coats ; parkas ( preferably not swallowtail , but this was n't crucial ) ; lightweight nylon ‘ surfer ’ jackets ; anoraks , fly-fronted macs , Levi , leather , denim , corduroy or suede jackets ( or Wrangler ) , you name it — as long as it was n't fashion — though Levi 's tackle was always accepted , whatever it was , until 1970 when they brought out flares or bell-bottoms — orange tagged & pre-shrunk ( see jeans section ) . |
| 19 | Peter gave him a key to come in the flat any time , you know , of course he did did n't he , he was |
| 20 | but I sh I , my opinion is the test we should apply when determining this application surely is , if we were today , nineteen ninety three , preparing a development plan for would we include in the plan this site for development ? |
| 21 | The value of this procedure is much diminished by the decision In the Estate of Wipperman [ 1955 ] P 59 ; [ 1953 ] 1 All ER 764 , that an examiner may not include in the deposition any opinion as to the witness 's credibility ( Ord 20 , r 13(5) ( e ) ; note 39/13/1 in The Supreme Court Practice ) . |
| 22 | The advance made by the Young Communist League was paralleled in the University Labour Federation . |
| 23 | One of the baby polyps proved intractable , appearing in the eyepiece one moment , vanishing the next . |
| 24 | ( b ) The DEC PDP-11 ( Bell , Cady , McFarland , Delagi , O'Laughlin , Noonan , and Wulf 1970 ; DEC 1972b ) and Data General Nova ( Data General 1971 ; Townsend 1975 , Chapter 8 ) , more recent 16-bit mini-computers , both appearing in the period 1970–1 . |
| 25 | WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD 30 YEARS AGO |
| 26 | You know , you might have three or four lads that 's going to work in the family all , like , watching films |
| 27 | One problem of the past year has been the length of time it has taken me to accept that I need to work in the bookshop most of the time even though I know this work has to be done and though I enjoy it ( most of the time ) . |
| 28 | A telephone box converted into a greenhouse stands in the garden next to Brae Studio , the old school where Ingrid Tait has her felting workshop . |
| 29 | The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you . ’ |
| 30 | As reported in the Winter 1990 issue , it is cared for , beautifully I can report , by Pierre Regnault , a pre-war French airman who escaped to England in 1940 , and enlisted in the RAFVR . |