Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phoebe dealt with Maggie 's immediate needs and took her trousers off to soak in the bathroom . |
| 2 | Gloria was officially still at school but took most afternoons off to help in the shop , for which she got paid . |
| 3 | There used to be a Circuit bicycle , kept in Thomas Street , for the use of visiting Edgehill students down to preach in the country churches . |
| 4 | I stripped off , laid my clothes out to dry in the sun , and cooled myself in the loch ; then , standing on a rock , I surveyed the magnificent view , sure that the effort involved in reaching the loch had been more than repaid by its utter peace and serenity . |
| 5 | It is therefore not surprising that he should here stress the psychological aspects of pain and its control rather than the nuts and bolts of nociceptors , unmyelinated afferents , spinothalamic tracts and those splendid phrases designed to send medical students back to sleep in the belief that they now understand pain mechanisms . |