Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , the person who used the sulk response successfully in the past will continue to use it , because it worked . |
| 2 | ‘ There is a change somewhere in the east . |
| 3 | Tantalisingly , at night , I might hear the plaintive hoot of a tawny owl somewhere in the trees , beyond my little world . |
| 4 | A year or two later he took up a consultancy somewhere in the Home Counties . |
| 5 | In Market Weighton , East Yorkshire , there is a markstone right in the middle of the town , opposite the church , and in Pembridge , Herefordshire , Watkins found a markstone next to the market house . |
| 6 | Another writer with a far briefer experience of life under sail , John Masefield , stands by contrast right in the centre of the convention of action and narrative in which the glory of adventure-story lies ; for at least one period of his life Masefield would have agreed , as Conrad would not , that he was a ‘ writer of sea-stories ’ . |
| 7 | Before an opportunity is actually found there is usually a preliminary sense that there is an opportunity somewhere in the area . |
| 8 | The Scots fear discrimination most in the livestock sector where lower limits on qualifying numbers for production subsidies would be particularly painful . |
| 9 | Spectators are advised to leave their cars in the multi-story car park right in the centre of Abingdon ; they then have a short walk along Park Road to the Amey Hall . |
| 10 | So just that , further clarification if I may , we are passing the increase er cost of milk on in the charge that we 're making ? |
| 11 | Beside the Ridgeway and effectively parallel to it as a lower level ran the Terrace-way , here called by the later name of " Pilgrims ' Way " , which passes through Upper and North Hailing to a crossing presumably in the Rochester area . |
| 12 | It never , however , approved the celebration of the Mass wholly in the vernacular , Eucharistic prayer and all . |
| 13 | arabiensis in the Sudan , show resistance to malathion only in the adult stage and it seems evident that such resistance was not in fact selected by agricultural usage . |
| 14 | ‘ Personally , I would liked to have done a little bit better in the Tests . |
| 15 | The body of the third man lies chest down in the mud , head to one side . |
| 16 | The noise down in the courtyard was getting louder as the men began to wonder why they were n't leaving . |
| 17 | … and it does mean that I think there is a pressure perhaps grows out of that to make you articulate clearly why you are putting the course together in the way you are … which previously you could have got away with . |
| 18 | The case that is usually made out for retention is that the House of Lords nevertheless discharges a valuable constitutional function especially in the processing of uncontroversial Bills and the revision of Bills passed , perhaps with undue haste and lack of consideration , by the House of Commons . |
| 19 | ( a bit long in the pasterns ? ) |
| 20 | I 'm using 1985 figures because my encyclopedia 's a bit long in the tooth . |
| 21 | A real character , but getting a bit long in the tooth . |
| 22 | • Point taken about the computers , Joel , but let's be realistic — the Speccy was great in its day , but it 's a bit long in the tooth now . |
| 23 | Transend Pro is getting a bit long in the tooth and is easily eclipsed on the fax side by the ‘ lite ’ versions of fax software bundled with the other modems I looked at . |
| 24 | DataEase is a worthy contender , although it 's a bit long in the tooth . |
| 25 | Although they were solid and durable , the old machines were getting a bit long in the tooth . |
| 26 | Men with top-level executive positions arrange in advance to take two weeks off to attend the Van Cliburn ; habitual meetings of all description are deferred ; women leave their housekeeping entirely in the hands of their housekeepers . |
| 27 | She supposed she was feeling a bit down in the dumps , apprehensive too about celebrating Christmas Day at the Danbys . |
| 28 | Some were very angry , they thought it would last for ever ; yes a bit down in the dumps , especially the younger people , some old people looked forward to it . |
| 29 | so , he said that she 's feeling a bit down in the dumps and quite moody . |
| 30 | Fish Sparks , who 's been a bit down in the mouth since we rumbled his story , thought it was terrifically funny to start calling the Indians things like Sitting Bull and Tonto , but of course they did n't understand and anyway the rest of us sort of froze him out . |