Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He 's dead — dropped right down in the middle of the cake-tasting .
2 Now right down in the corner , bearing in mind my parents ' garden shall we say is there and the field height is there
3 A bath safety-rail made of chromium-plated tubular steel makes getting in and out of the bath much easier and safer ; and a bath seat with a back support eliminates the need to sit right down in the bath ( see Chapter 12 ) .
4 The ‘ Sean Astin digs up a caveman and he fits right in in the Valley ’ plot does n't add to the suburban dumbnation routines but rather reworks the Eighties ' ‘ innocents abroad in America ’ genre ( eg anything from Starman to Crocodile Dundee ) .
5 I know which it is but it 's somewhere down in the corner where your brother used to live that corner down there Harry somewhere down there .
6 I wished I could help him then ; he looked so down in the mouth hunched up by the stove .
7 He had never seen Karr looking so down in the mouth .
8 ‘ Why so down in the mouth ? ’ asked her host , returning with a tea-tray .
9 That erm , made me laugh because he said to his secretary erm you know , I I honestly do n't think your time is she is so down in the mouth .
10 Deeper down in the chest , where Tod does n't often burrow , the women get appreciably younger and are to be seen in things like shorts and swimwear .
11 His tools were all over in the cafeteria , there had to be something that he could use to open himself up .
12 My charm wins them all over in the end .
13 Even once a predator has found a school , the prey fish are better off in the school than they would be alone , as has been proved by the following experiment .
14 Yes , yes I do n't think that on our next buy , what with the next year I would be a bit better off in the sense that I should have sold my house , bought something cheaper and have some capital invested so I have a little extra monthly income , I should be living in somewhere that 's cheaper to run
15 so they 're probably better off in the sweat shop any way
16 In the long run the West could help Russia and Eastern Europe more by opening its markets to their produce than by handing over cash — and would immediately make itself a lot better off in the process ( see page 50 ) .
17 Yeah probably so yeah , and at this time of year they 're fetching so ridiculous in low money anyway , probably better off in the summer when the lads want to go out , out and about , well they 're not bothered now nobody wants to go anywhere do they ?
18 ‘ You 'd be much better off in the dining-room , ’ Alexandra said to the mice .
19 of course until December so at least still very much up in the air , but certainly the estimates of the current year are produced of highly
20 Even dressed as he now was , in a blue cotton jacket and trousers , he could never have been taken for an Italian , and since he was n't able to walk — he could only hop on one leg — or speak the language , he was hardly likely to remain free for long out in the open .
21 The whole building shook , and someone was running the sound-effects tracks from All Quiet on the Western Front and Hell 's Angels very loud out in the street .
22 Literally out in the middle of a field .
23 ah she said she saw this fella hitting the wall and hitting the football halfway out in the road , it was fucking me .
24 Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor .
25 To soldier doggedly on in the right — and then to crown the campaign with a clear-cut black-and-white knockdown victory in argument !
26 My Lords , I did not speak on the second reading of this Bill , because I spoke extremely critically on in the debate on the White Paper o on er May the 26th last year , but er I would therefore like to er commence by joining with my Right Honourable Friend Lord Whitelaw because I was so critical , in welcoming the changes which the Home Secretary has now proposed .
27 The mattress was already down in the hall .
28 Meanwhile down in the valley — something is stirring
29 And that 's just down in the library is that it ?
30 De Vere Green was already up in the seat of the converted Sno-cat that they used as a tractor , its caterpillar track ideal for use in the harsh Dartmoor winters .
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