Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And have there been any specific breakthroughs in organic chemistry you can put your fingers on in recent years ? |
| 2 | Originally , before universal printing standardised the written language , the educated people in different parts of the country wrote words down in different ways , so that a monk in Whitby might spell as book what one in Ely would spell buk because of local accents . |
| 3 | Then if we go on a step further and consider that Paul says the wife 's body does not belong to her alone , that means the husband must have some authority to move the limbs around in various patterns . |
| 4 | People still think a poet is a person who prances about in frilly shirts and things , and the fucking poets you see on television read like it 's a grocery list : ‘ The frog leapt over the moon , I want some cheese soon . ’ |
| 5 | Maybe what I 'm saying is the only sure-fire , tried and tested way to get a girl 's knickers off in thirty seconds — which , by the way , it is . |
| 6 | But , after speaking to Sunil 's tutor , they have agreed to the Leeds boy paying his debts off in weekly instalments . |
| 7 | The club were served with the winding-up order on Saturday despite an offer to pay the debts off in several payments . |
| 8 | GREASY burgers , fatty chips and sticky sweets all get the thumbs down in most children 's diets these days . |
| 9 | According to them I have had four weeks off in ten years . |
| 10 | Do you it 's all to do with I suppose whether you whether you approve of dressing dogs up in little coats and I know this one does n't have a coat or does it ? |
| 11 | But then there are strange bedfellows about in these times , are there not ? ’ |
| 12 | Are turning things over in high parts of the house |
| 13 | By day she holes up in remote dens away from human habitation . |
| 14 | Shopkeepers helped families out in bad times by giving credit . |
| 15 | But erm yes sometimes you 'd , you 'd get there in time but you see they 'd just , I , there , there were n't the telephones about in those days so you , you , you could n't , everybody did n't have a phone , they could n't ring in an and say I 'm in labour . |
| 16 | Its toes are strong enough to hold it on the bark , no matter which way it is facing and it hops about in all directions with sure-footed nimbleness . |
| 17 | ‘ They 're only putting prices up in tenanted pubs because they want to frighten tenants out . ’ |
| 18 | Darlington hung on tenaciously after going ten points down in 20 minutes , but after Mark Butler missed two penalties they could find no way back into the game . |
| 19 | Tom Rooney was standing by the door with his pocket-watch in his hand , allowing his men out in regular intervals . |
| 20 | There were not the multitude of motorcars about in those days , as there are now , but that was one of the firms that was trying to make it , and has done it , like that . |
| 21 | That it is wrong , we may learn from the sights all around us : drunken men lying on the ground , cursing and making oaths ; young women lost to the bondage of early motherhood , always pushing children about in small carts , and making oaths ; reckless gamblers who by their own improvidence must sell double-glazing for the prudent man 's windows . |
| 22 | And he 's got exactly the same clothes on in both pictures . |
| 23 | Above us , a massive chandelier in sugar-doll pink cascades down in frilly waves . |
| 24 | Like its counterpart , this symptom of an unresolved disagreement is extremely common in the social sciences , and crops up in all sorts of contexts . |
| 25 | The chosen subject came from Greek mythology , though the theme crops up in other myths , including the biblical story of Jeptha . |
| 26 | This subject crops up in funny places . |
| 27 | Oxfam says the problem is that while wealthier nations can afford to bring their citizens back in large numbers , there are poorer ones who ca n't . |
| 28 | We got a hundred and thirty pins out in fifteen minutes on the twentieth did n't we Margaret ? |
| 29 | Getting her jeans off in two seconds flat in a stable was not what he had visualized for her . |