Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What fun you children had skating on the tennis courts down in the valley , and putting on plays and dances with the Claydons . |
| 2 | We loved our home in the woods down in the lane . |
| 3 | finish that picture I want to put your pyjamas on in a minute |
| 4 | But there 's some nice pictures on in a bit . |
| 5 | What Alianor had failed to realize was that , under the sombre cloak , she was wearing a new and quite beautiful pale-pink gown trimmed with dark fur — a gown such as few maidservants would set eyes on in a lifetime , much less wear . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No British team have ever come back from three goals down in the history of European competition . |
| 9 | In Australia , players have four to five months off in the summer to prepare and they also play far less games . ’ |
| 10 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
| 11 | Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere . |
| 12 | Look these words up in the Oxford English Dictionary ( complete version , not the compact or shorter version ) ; in Brewer 's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature ; in the Encyclopedia Brittanica ; and in whichever other relevant reference sources are available to you . |
| 13 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |
| 14 | Note how they sometimes walk with their tails up in the air , probably using them as a flag for signalling to others in the group when on the move through undergrowth . |
| 15 | — helping to get clients up in the morning |
| 16 | She 'd discover he had n't locked the hen-house when she went to let the hens out in the morning . |
| 17 | I think generally speaking you erm schools out in the country are better . |
| 18 | Commercial tools and technology manager Nancy Colwell claimed that systems management tools from a company with longevity such as CA was the most highly requested demand from Sun users , while Sun president Scott McNealy claimed that Sun would have up to 10,000 commercial servers out in the field by the end of the year . |
| 19 | Have you any idea what it was like round here in those days ? — women and kids out in the fields till all hours , gleaning , stone-picking , hauling the wagons when they got bogged down . |
| 20 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
| 21 | And they 're tips to put on the canes so you do n't poke your eyes out in the garden . |
| 22 | He put the books back in the drawer and stood waiting for Mrs Hatton to recover . |
| 23 | After several more sessions out in the country , Hoomey got the hand of it , and learned that , even if he could n't stop , he could steer , and that sitting on Bones 's enormous flights through the atmosphere was comparatively easy once you got used to it , far easier than poor Jazz 's problem of trying to stay aboard when Spot , cantering quite easily towards the jump , put his anchors out at the last minute and stopped dead . |
| 24 | So she kept her eyes closed , humming a little tune to try and make Florence let her milk down faster and barely listening to the sound of voices out in the yard . |
| 25 | tore , destroyed , dumped books out in the rain |
| 26 | The second solution is to try to carry ambiguities around in the form of constraints [ Sussman & steele , 1980 ] . |
| 27 | The latter approach attempts to carry these ambiguities around in the form of constraints . |
| 28 | Well A few cars about in the car park ! |
| 29 | Merrill could have sold the whole issue several times over in the US , but Waste Management International intends to acquire British companies , funded by future share issues , and needs to create a shareholder base in Britain to facilitate this . |
| 30 | Good historical practice will usually ensure that the attainment targets are covered many times over in the course of the work . |