Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we shop or eat out in cafés , college canteens or restaurants , we tend to select food for appeal and taste , not nutrient value . |
| 2 | These jennies were either collected in small workshops or placed out in cottages and seem to have brought increased earnings to many women in the cloth-working families , albeit for a short period until the machines got larger and , more importantly , the largely male-worked spinning mule began to replace the jenny . |
| 3 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
| 4 | Peter Gibson J said , at p638 : An employee with experience in a particular industry who is intending to leave , whether to join a competitor as an employee or to set up in competition on his own account , commits no breach of contract in doing so unless either there is a specific term of his contract to that effect which does not fall foul of the doctrine against restraint of trade or he is intending to use the confidential information of his employer otherwise and for the benefit of his employer . |
| 5 | The Marx brothers might have shown more tolerance than Karl Marx for Stalin 's antics : throwing food at guests unwise enough to nod off at table during his interminable late-night dinner parties , or racing round in meetings ‘ cursing like a cab driver ’ . |
| 6 | And also , but half the time it 's the problem arises because it 's , the machines gone to personnel without something , and then we 've got to spend time either chasing it up or getting another bit or going round in circles . |
| 7 | Nowadays it would be considered kinky indeed for a Catholic priest to acquire a tonsure at the hairdressers — or to parade around in soutane and biretta . |
| 8 | She could go to the synagogue and to large shopping centres as before , without having to worry about coping with stairs or moving about in crowds . |
| 9 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 10 | What are you shocked , frightened or disgusted by in others ? |
| 11 | press for action to make sure people do n't waste time or go round in circles |
| 12 | The definition ‘ Bangladeshi ’ refers to infants whose mothers were born in Bangladesh , and the few mothers who were born or grew up in Britain . |
| 13 | This usually entailed Branson being the first to let off fire-extinguishers , initiate a food fight , or dress up in fishnet stockings and make-up for the inevitable fancy-dress party . |
| 14 | The hands are clawed , deformed , seemingly clutching madly or reaching out in desperation . |
| 15 | Aggressive people , on the other hand , may deny the error and argue or criticize back in order to take the attention away from themselves . |
| 16 | Yesterday afternoon , however , saw them all back up to speed with Grant Dalton 's Fisher & Paykel out in front by three miles from Steinlager 2 , skippered by his fellow New Zealander Peter Blake . |
| 17 | The misery of our troops huddled in their impromptu lines or strung out in shell-holes , can not be pictured in words . ’ |
| 18 | or sounded off in spates of shooting , |
| 19 | A great many people sat at the feet of the statues or stood about in groups near by . |
| 20 | Those taking up job-release allowances must not take a job or set up in business on their own , and their employer must undertake to recruit as soon as possible a registered unemployed worker . |
| 21 | Well it was erm , making me go back to something that goes on in branch all the time . |
| 22 | So much for the handwringing about the decline of the political process that goes on in Washington . |
| 23 | I mean , there 's so much that goes on in prison that people do n't know about , which they should . |
| 24 | But then I thought ‘ Driven By You … ’ and ping ! the lights went on ; I thought of it as the power struggle that goes on in relationships . |
| 25 | It is in each individual 's interest to defend its place in the ‘ peck order ’ vigorously , as well as to challenge those higher up — hence the almost continual challenging that goes on in goat society . |
| 26 | Yet the British Government was responsible under Clause 75 of the Government of Ireland Act for everything that goes on in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | I mean , you get the lowdown on stuff that writers never get , because you 're working with these people and you get the real story — not the stuff that goes on in books and magazines . |
| 28 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 29 | If the Chief those to also want to improve passenger comfort but let me say in spite of all this er th th th the customer still favour and that is why we will be supporting the Labour resolution because it is about the state of it is about yes to keep our eyes and sort of providing a whole range of integrated public transport that goes along in parallel with that same . |
| 30 | ‘ The life that goes out in love to all is the life that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power . ’ |