Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expensive miss ; costly save , because just 4 minutes later , Derby had hit or rather rolled in the winner ; soft goal it was . |
| 2 | Among these fish are a number of vital breeding projects , containing fish like Skiffia francesae that are extinct or extremely threatened in the wild . |
| 3 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 4 | They took to the path with gusto , he finding the line somewhere between the nearside bank and the middle ridge , while the other more or less followed in the wake , content to orchestrate himself around the camera with his umbrella . |
| 5 | The total number of Egyptian fighting men in Saudi Arabia is put at about 27,000 , with another 5,000 or so based in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 6 | Yet Roxborough Tower was kept well by its owners , who once every month or so gathered in the single room which occupied the top floor of the building in the name of the man who had owned this plot of land two hundred years before , and who had left |
| 7 | Stained preparations may fade rapidly when first examined but usually stabilize after a day or so stored in the dark at 4-C . |
| 8 | As the last wave periscoped up , with only a minute or so left in the heat , Pottz knew he had to take it : he needed a fourth wave to beat Carroll . |
| 9 | In a couple of landscapes executed at Carrières Saint-Denis , where he had spent a week or so working in the company of Derain , late in the autumn of 1909 , Braque had already begun to transform the subtlety and observational quality of the Roche Guyon landscapes into tighter , more arbitrary compositions , reminiscent in the emphasis on the vertical and horizontal structure broken by forty-five degree diagonals ( and also in colour , which is once again darker and harsher ) of the Maisons à Estaque . |
| 10 | Second , a court might interpret the rule restrictively so that it only permitted the replication of common law rights and duties or only operated in the regulatory sphere . |
| 11 | The girls in the office would say in surprise , ‘ You ought to be shopping ! ’ if I said I had been bird-watching or merely reading in the sunshine . |
| 12 | The undeniable fact is that all worshipped ‘ gods ’ have in the past been man-made , either imagined or physically made in the form of idols . |
| 13 | Are these people afraid to expose themselves in a panel condemning the National Health Service or just to sit in the background and make any comments ? |
| 14 | Or just relax in the comfortable surroundings — it 's a home from home ( 6 ) . |
| 15 | She chose to read or follow a hobby or go for a walk or just relax in the bath . |
| 16 | For many that was Buncrana or Fahan in County Donegal where they surfed , skiied , took boat trips or just lay in the sun . |
| 17 | For others , it was a chance to browse … or just to relax in the sunshine . |
| 18 | For others , it was a chance to browse … or just to relax in the sunshine . |
| 19 | More leisurely guests can relax at the bar or around the pool , play a quiet game of cards on the large verandah , or just rest in the attractive lounge . |
| 20 | And we would go for walks together or just sit in the garden , talking . |
| 21 | Or else try charging around rudderless in Wayfarers , wobbling on windsurfers , toppling off Toppers , or just tippling in the bar watching our safety boats tending the tipped . |
| 22 | Just about everyone flicks through the racing pages and either studies the form , thinks of a lucky number or name , or just plunges in the pin . |
| 23 | On the contrary , as stated above , the ability to accommodate properly is often inadequate , imprecise or totally lacking in the visually impaired child . |
| 24 | But it must always be remembered that it is an assumption that body temperature and performance are parallel ( or oppositely phased in the case of short-term memory ) , an assumption that has not been tested under all conditions , and so , at times , might be wrong . |
| 25 | Instruments in this category may be ( but equally may not be ) subject to a statutory requirement of laying before Parliament or publication or both contained in the statute conferring the power to make rules . |
| 26 | WOMEN face a greater risk of being raped or sexually assaulted in the South and big cities , according to worrying new figures . |
| 27 | On the sensitive issue of the WEU [ see also above ] the draft stated only that decisions with defence implications " can be entirely or partially implemented in the framework of the WEU to the degree they also come within the competence of this body " . |
| 28 | ‘ He wo n't let me get up or go out , or even sit in the armchair for a bit , ’ said Dolly . |
| 29 | Those coaching inns which already existed were frequently refronted or even remodelled in the latest Georgian style . |
| 30 | Still , a major international trade in agricultural produce was now in being , normally — for obvious reasons — leading to extreme specialisation or even monoculture in the exporting regions . |