Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the day , a steady stream of East Germans came along to sit in it , admire it , wonder at it , touch it — the latest Trabant 601 de-luxe , that is . |
| 2 | Journalist Diana Hutchinson , of the Daily Mail , pointed out that it might be a question of ‘ the young baby left alone while the parents went out to play in the summer sunshine ’ . |
| 3 | Later , when I was a city detective in the early 1960s , we again used clothing to mark off our separation and dirty , ragged tramps shuffling off to shelter in rubble-filled dens under the Tyne Bridge would become a referent to our despised neighbours : ‘ look [ we would point ] there 's a Gateshead detective hurrying off on the scent … |
| 4 | There were accusations that their presence had been orchestrated using methods reminiscent of the Ceausescu regime , with factory NSF committees giving workers time off to participate in demonstrations , and transport being laid on to bring demonstrators from as far away as Constanţa , the Black Sea port around 200 km from Bucharest . |
| 5 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 6 | As he fingered the black , transparent things hung up to dry in the bathroom , he had scented sin . |
| 7 | It 's when they start getting round to looking at our facility agreements , start looking at how we 're organizing , the councillors , even if it 's the Labour Council as it is Manchester , will soon cotton on to the , in the , soon cotton to their , their , their potential power in terms of threatening our ability to organize and UNISON wo n't actually be that far behind persuading them to do , to do that because they want to see the G M B getting smashed in local authorities up and down the country which means as far as I can see , we need some resources coming in to assist in our branches with local authority membership pretty damn quick , because otherwise we , come July the first , we 're gon na find we 'll be up against it . |
| 8 | Technical border teams went on to meet in Vientiane in September , Beijing in November , Yunnan province ( China ) in January-February 1991 and Vientiane in August . |
| 9 | Her fingers reached up to entwine in the clean curl of his black hair , every part of her aching shamelessly to be discovered and touched , by this one man who could whip up a storm in her heart … |
| 10 | Would more Government money in the home stop young girls going out to engage in prostitution ? |
| 11 | This means that not only can aspiring professionals come back to play in the Home Internationals afterwards , even if they have been successful , but also that they are in a position to change their minds if successful . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ Teleworking is innovative as it allows qualified women to come back to work in senior positions . |
| 13 | Indeed , many of those children whose fathers went off to fight in the war experienced that same sense of inner rejection , even though as they grew older they were able to understand the truth of the matter . |
| 14 | The women go out to work in the same way as other women , but know that their main priority in life is to care for their families . |
| 15 | A higher proportion of women go out to work in Britain than in any other EC country except Denmark . |
| 16 | Helmeted , armed with long , spear-like boards , the surfers looked like gladiators going out to engage in mortal combat . |