Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ? |
| 2 | I get to my feet and go over to the window , easing back the soft material , looking at the houses opposite in the half-light . |
| 3 | Anti-communism thus united the interests of the US Occupation , the Japanese state and private employers especially in the face of a united front of public and private sector workers . |
| 4 | Sistem is initially targeted at customer support Hot Lines and internal Help Desks much in the fashion of start-ups Aurum and ProActive Software . |
| 5 | He scores more goals , is a better passer , a better tackler , 100 times better in the air — but most of all , he has a decent haircut . |
| 6 | What fun you children had skating on the tennis courts down in the valley , and putting on plays and dances with the Claydons . |
| 7 | It 's no use going on a six day trail ride , with six hours daily in the saddle , if all you want is some gentle hacking in a scenic setting , with perhaps a few longer pub rides as an added bonus . |
| 8 | Just 20 minutes daily in the privacy of your home will develop an amazing physique . |
| 9 | We loved our home in the woods down in the lane . |
| 10 | In McMurdo Sound , Antarctica , Tedrow and Ugolini ( 1966 ) and Tedrow ( 1977 ) estimated that shifts of 30–40°C occurred several times daily in the surface of rocks under summer sunshine , and Nichols and Ball ( 1964 ) found bare ahumic soils passing through the freeze-thaw cycle over a hundred times in the course of a summer . |
| 11 | You could begin your essay by acknowledging this and continue to work with the definitions throughout the essay , relating the different definitions together in the conclusion . |
| 12 | At first he could hear nothing but the dripping of rainwater from the trees and the singing of birds deeper in the forest . |
| 13 | Cricket in the 20th century has pulled in large crowds only in the aftermath of the two world wars ; after such horrors , people needed the spiritual balm of this most philosophic of games . |
| 14 | The Persian empire made and used coins only in the part of its territory which adjoined the coin-using lands of Greece . |
| 15 | Looking her potential clients right in the eye , she would say : Women buy your products , why not have women help you publicise them — women understand women " . |
| 16 | Lizards of course became birds — some as unearthly as the Greater Bird of Paradise , and others , like the Cassowary , which reversed tactics somewhere in the past and returned to the earth again . |
| 17 | We can assume that most of the migrants were not in fact speakers of the basilect alone , but commanded a range of styles somewhere in the middle of the continuum . |
| 18 | The fourth category is the strong nuclear force , which holds the quarks together in the proton and neutron , and holds the protons and neutrons together in the nucleus of an atom . |
| 19 | Always aim to look first one way and then the other , move both head and shoulders together in the direction in which you want to look ; avoid turning the head . |
| 20 | Anyway , the people she met were all in a hurry , striding along with heads down in the rain , and no one appeared to notice her . |
| 21 | His three sons are cathedral choristers : ‘ There have n't been three brothers together in the choir for about 12 years , ’ he says , with some pride . |
| 22 | They formed a strand in the cultural tradition which drew the different peoples together in the formation of the Yugoslav Movement of the early nineteenth century . |
| 23 | To eyes long in the dark , it was as daylight . |
| 24 | We 've got stores in the Arctic Circle , we 've got shops literally in the desert in the Middle East and we 've got them in Hong Kong and Singapore and they 're all the same — and they all work . |
| 25 | ‘ And take baths together in the candlelight ? ’ |
| 26 | Assessments of the current situation in the Soviet Union have meaning in Nizan 's eyes only in the context of this material progress : " Soviet achievements can not be properly evaluated unless they are linked historically to the effort which produced them " he stresses . |
| 27 | The result was that , although all four teams put their heads together in the pub , there were almost as many theories as there were people . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm going to order some soup or something , then we 'll get our heads together in the corner . |
| 29 | Sally-Anne was delighted by his changed manner ; he always looked so charming when he smiled — even the scar seemed to disappear a little , and as she was always ready for fun herself — a trait she shared with her papa — and the game looked like being fun , she said , eyes shining , ‘ Oh , I play to win , too , but a good servant always does what the Master commands , ’ and she cast her eyes down in the manner of a stage domestic registering submission . |
| 30 | She heard the click of the gate ; then nothing , except the crickets rubbing their back legs together in the grass . |