Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment the EMG pickups on the Petersen have a good clean sound , if a little clanky on the top end , but my ideal would be where you had a bass with a thousand different possibilities and you could just slot them in in two seconds flat ! |
| 2 | The square brackets in ( 62 ) merely mark that the whole is to be taken as a complex entity , which is given anyway by our assumption that an E extended remains an E ; if the brackets are not needed in ( 61 ) why are they present in ( 62 ) ; alternatively , why not write them in in both cases ? |
| 3 | They will be ready for November , before the government grant settlement arrives , and work will begin in the finance officer 's department paring them down in bilateral discussions . |
| 4 | My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways . |
| 5 | Since peasants who still possessed any seed reserves or livestock were excluded from relief , they were compelled to sell them off in some cases in order to survive . |
| 6 | Imagine that we , the human species , released one billion living spores into the Universe , sending them off in random directions . |
| 7 | Perhaps , after all , sir , you could walk down Pennsylvania Avenue without being clapped in irons or whatever they do to you over in those parts . |
| 8 | next to nothing ca n't you over in some countries . |
| 9 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 10 | I will pick you up in twenty minutes . |
| 11 | I 'll ring you back in five minutes . ’ |
| 12 | I will phone you back in five minutes . ’ |
| 13 | I want you back in four weeks . |
| 14 | Could I call you back in fifteen minutes ? ’ |
| 15 | You can often pick them up in second-hand bookshops . |
| 16 | Shannon , constantly mopping her feverish forehead , is , like the giant lizard tied up and thrashing under the floorboards , at the end of his rope , and the party of Texan school teachers he is leading on a ‘ tour of God 's world ’ are incensed about his having put them up in flea-bag hotels and fallen into bed with the teenage student they have brought along . |
| 17 | In fact I think you can probably still pick them up in antique shops and second hand shops and probably a lot of people have still got some . |
| 18 | It needs to be full somebody said that you can wrap them up in these papers and they stay frozen . |
| 19 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 20 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 21 | ‘ Thing ? ’ he remembered to say , ‘ wake me up in ten minutes , will you ? ’ |
| 22 | He did n't ; instead , he sorted them out in two weeks flat . |
| 23 | Well , do you want to go to Phillips and , I mean he kicks them out in two weeks . |
| 24 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 25 | His stumbling gait took him off in all directions except the one he wanted to go in . |
| 26 | Then I dressed her up in some things of my own ( oh , so much too big ! ) . |
| 27 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
| 28 | She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar . |
| 29 | It 's pleasanter than chopping him up in little pieces . |
| 30 | Expect him back in six months . |