Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No British team have ever come back from three goals down in the history of European competition . |
| 6 | In Australia , players have four to five months off in the summer to prepare and they also play far less games . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | — helping to get clients up in the morning |
| 12 | She 'd discover he had n't locked the hen-house when she went to let the hens out in the morning . |
| 13 | I think generally speaking you erm schools out in the country are better . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | And they 're tips to put on the canes so you do n't poke your eyes out in the garden . |
| 17 | He put the books back in the drawer and stood waiting for Mrs Hatton to recover . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | tore , destroyed , dumped books out in the rain |
| 21 | The second solution is to try to carry ambiguities around in the form of constraints [ Sussman & steele , 1980 ] . |
| 22 | The latter approach attempts to carry these ambiguities around in the form of constraints . |
| 23 | Well A few cars about in the car park ! |
| 24 | Good historical practice will usually ensure that the attainment targets are covered many times over in the course of the work . |
| 25 | And course they were on hinges , the doors , on er the hinges on in the centre hole under the water and course you always knew where then to , where to fit what we used to call fish for th fish for the chain . |
| 26 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
| 27 | BRITAIN may be pulling out of Hong Kong but trusty Tykes are putting the chips down in the battle for the hearts — and stomachs — of the Chinese . |
| 28 | Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface . |
| 29 | He put nails down in the road . ’ |
| 30 | Well they 're taking all the power lines down in the village , or down through that part of the village which , fair enough , gets rid of the eyesore but they 're gon na put now a bloody big transformer , abou thing about seven , eight foot bloody tall in , in the field right on the Copper Dollar |