Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er facilities er exist for parking and so on and the only thing is , er I 'm talking about catering in the sense of a Saturday whether it 's here or there . |
| 2 | You many have thought , like me , that serving hatches went out when the craze for eating in the kitchen came back into fashion . |
| 3 | ‘ We might go and have lunch , ’ Anthony said to Maud , looking at the preparations for eating in the compartment — napkins tucked into shirt collars , laps spread with paper bags . |
| 4 | The shrimps are too small for eating in the summer , but the net will capture lots of other small fish including the sandy coloured gobies , juvenile flatfish , dragnets , the Lesser Weever with venomous spines , pipefish , rockling ; as well as hermit crabs , little cuttlefish , and larvae of all sorts . |
| 5 | Their hospitality would doubtless have extended to me sampling the food in each of the three messes — but not wanting to risk either myself or the computer 's Carafe programme developing hiccups , I enjoyed visiting each mess and settled for eating in the Sergeant 's Mess . |
| 6 | Using woven fabrics for household articles seems appropriate because many of the samples when they are finished have the right feel and substance for using in the home . |
| 7 | Vincent went to him for drawing in the mornings , and in the evenings to try his hand at watercolours , as he had done before Christmas . |
| 8 | During the 1967 San Francisco Film Festival , Crawford met Gene Kelly , the song-and-dance maestro who had himself been a hit on the Broadway stage before starring in film musicals such as Singing In the Rain . |
| 9 | A TEENAGE IRA girl was jailed for 10 years yesterday for plotting to kill troops — while her accomplice was given life for helping in the murder of a businessman . |
| 10 | Tap D for Delete in the Command Menu ( not Del for Delete on the keyboard , and not Transfer Delete in the Command Area ! ) |
| 11 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 12 | About 1,200 motorists were also stopped for speeding in the crackdown . |
| 13 | The use of syntactic information for assisting in the selection of the correct word candidates in an automatic text recognition system has been investigated . |
| 14 | This thesis examines the use of syntactic information for assisting in the text recognition process . |
| 15 | The tapetum is so useful for seeing in the dark that some reptiles , moths and deep-sea fish also have one . |
| 16 | This is structured by hourly changes of sail or course , so that the crew can learn as much as possible about handling in the time they are aboard . |
| 17 | We may find something wrong with her , items we need for overwintering in the ice . |
| 18 | Officials refuse to discuss the deal , but the world 10,000m champion is expected to earn up to £500,000 for competing in the race until 1995 . |
| 19 | They have a special hook feature for hanging in the shower . |
| 20 | They brought the whole flock of sheep and goats , thirty-five or forty of them , on to the roof to tie on the lukals — the double-pouched woven saddle-bags — stuffed with potatoes and Tibetan salt for trading in the south . |
| 21 | Q : Were you well paid for appearing in the nude ? |
| 22 | A property which was neither helping — as a qualifier forming part of the same noun phrase — to identify that entity , nor ascribable to any entity within the sentence , and which was not simply adverbially qualifying the verb , would have no convincing reason for appearing in the sentence at all . |
| 23 | Bessie was at a strict Jewish school at the time of her début and was expelled publicly for appearing in the theatre . |
| 24 | Brilliant on permed or naturally curly hair , damp or dry hair and great for scrunch drying , ShockWaves Curl Shaper can also be used in-between washes to re-energise tired curls — perfect for keeping in the office for an end-of-the-day style boost ! |
| 25 | There is also the adjective so-called , which in a comparably explicit way calls into question the relation between an entity and the description or properties which might be supposed to belong to it : ( 42 ) it is the so-called liberals who have closed down the press The author of this sentence is not casting doubt on the existence of the people he is writing about , nor on the existence of such properties as may be characterized by the word liberals ( nor for that matter the existence of people who might be so described ) but only on the validity of the relationship between the description " liberals " and the people who are acting as censors in the situation portrayed by this particular sentence . |
| 26 | For it will show whether John Major 's government is serious about reining in the PSBR . |
| 27 | Of course , there was no business plan for opening in the US ; it was merely a dream , long nurtured by Bernard . |
| 28 | First there was the illustrated slide show he gave in the village hall about walking in the dales where , sensitive to the good burghers of Sedbergh , he modified his vocabulary . |
| 29 | for walking in the grain ? |
| 30 | Sonya Jeffery , Belfast Parks Department , highlights opportunities for walking in the Cave Hill area , which includes part of the Ulster Way . |