Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 2 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 3 | I recited the names of some relations and friends , and my mother wrote them down in a businesslike fashion until I ran out of ideas . |
| 4 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 5 | Bruce 's far lighter cavalry cut them off in a flanking movement . |
| 6 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 7 | Worst of all , some tiles are inaccessible without forming a bridge with others — think on your toes and pair them off in the right order , or it 's back to the beginning . |
| 8 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 9 | There is no way of standing them off in the old fashion . |
| 10 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
| 11 | We have teamed up with Phonogram records to fly you and a guest to the States and put you up in a swanky hotel for a week 's luxury holiday . |
| 12 | A word of caution at this point : do not list specific skills that you do not have unless you feel that the lack of these skills is holding you back in a particular area . |
| 13 | It 's us who untied you back in the Emerald Suite . |
| 14 | They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands . |
| 15 | The better nurserymen pride themselves on their packing , so much so that they often advise you to leave the plants in the packing when planting is delayed , and to lay them up in a cool garage or shed . |
| 16 | These group-living females show remarkable degrees of social tolerance and sometimes take up residence in large , communal nests , carrying all their kittens in there and piling them up in a huge , squirming mass . |
| 17 | She saw him crumple them up in a sudden burst of impatience , and fling them across the parade . |
| 18 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 19 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 20 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 21 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 22 | People sent their daughters to Cambridge School , dressing them up in the toffee-brown and pale-blue uniform Elizabeth Jarvis had selected . |
| 23 | She stopped for a moment , then said suddenly , ‘ Let's look them up in the veterinary register and see roughly how old they are , judging from the year they qualified . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If you take as much trouble as we do in BP to get the words and information right , it would be silly to dish them up in an unattractive package , ’ Brigg adds . |
| 25 | Grumbling under his breath at the lateness of the hour , and the fact that he was missing an important baseball game on TV , the super — who appeared to be of Polish extraction — nevertheless insisted on taking them up in an antiquated , dangerously shaky lift . |
| 26 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 27 | Yeah well you could n't put them back in the wild now . |
| 28 | The moment we put them back in the open spaces where they belong , in the social life they intuitively understand , horses use not only their innate behaviour but also their intelligent adaptability to its fullest . |
| 29 | Harvest onions and lay them out in a dry , sunny spot where then can finish ripening before being stored |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |