Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the description fits someone else in the office , take action . |
| 2 | The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector . |
| 3 | I got round this potential danger of tonal contrasts by ensuring that I was near enough to the boat to see it mainly in its own shadows ( figure XX ) , thus reducing the glare of white , and thereby allowing a less contrasting tonal interplay between boat and background . |
| 4 | The administrator 's greeting made everyone else in the room turn round to look . |
| 5 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 6 | Nor can the employee do anything else in Hawkins J's list in his employer 's time . |
| 7 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 8 | ‘ Stick on a swimsuit , and we 'll take our chances on the car making it there in one piece . ’ |
| 9 | From the opening gambit , ‘ Long Summer Days ’ , EMF make it plain in which direction they 're heading , and the choice of Silverfish as cohorts looks increasingly natural . |
| 10 | When two hours had passed and he had n't returned , Lyn imagined him finding his way back to Bale 's and by this act leading her there in search of him . |
| 11 | The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 12 | The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 13 | 1.8 The three profile components we recommend are as follows : • speaking and listening — with one attainment target : the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 14 | speaking and listening — with one attainment target ; the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose ; |
| 15 | The structure of intelligence reveals itself spontaneously in the way people behave intellectually ; it is not imposed by the assumptions of testers , as the national press would have it . |
| 16 | The quantum leap expressed itself partly in population levels . |
| 17 | In that second , while Jinny was babbling on about Joe , the boy looked her straight in the eyes and spoke soundlessly , his lips shaping a single word . |
| 18 | It was , in fact , a much beamier vessel than the police ship , the hull fining up sharply towards bow and stern so that both fore and aft her deep , strong wedge-shape would cause the ice to squeeze her upwards in the event of her being caught in a series of pressure ridges . |
| 19 | " I thought you 'd like to have this basket to take him home in . " |
| 20 | I remember standing at the kitchen window watching them outside in the snow . |
| 21 | But they had the foresight to prepare themselves financially in case one ever did . |
| 22 | The old bat led me astray in more ways than one . |
| 23 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 24 | He waited until the surface of the water in the bath became quite still , like a pool , like a swimming pool before the very first swimmer enters it early in the morning , and then with one quick move climbed in and lay right under the water with his eyes closed . |
| 25 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 26 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | And so it did n't really make sense that when she lay in bed half an hour later , with images of the evening playing themselves chaotically in her mind , her mood was rather blue and wistful . |
| 28 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 29 | It did not take long for the Japanese to recognise the value of railways , and their natural imitativeness served them well in grasping the salient features of railway work . |
| 30 | I think the next person in the house to leave their pit made it just in time for ‘ Playschool ’ . |