Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supposed she was feeling a bit down in the dumps , apprehensive too about celebrating Christmas Day at the Danbys . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | so , he said that she 's feeling a bit down in the dumps and quite moody . |
| 4 | I 've normally got telly on in the evenings . |
| 5 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 6 | I make his bed once a week to give it a good puff up in the sheets . |
| 7 | A spokesman said that Mr Fontana had put his mandate back in the hands of the prime minister , Giuliano Amato . |
| 8 | ‘ We have had to beg , steal and borrow substantial funds to put the club back in the hands of the people of Peterborough , which is where it belongs , ’ commented Turner , who moves to the boardroom as chairman . |
| 9 | He used to give me an hours warning and then we 'd work through until it got dark out in the fields and then we 'd go into the sheds and restack the hay or whatever he wanted to do . |
| 10 | They had also been floating in a jar of pickle in the curiobiological museum down in the cellars of Unseen University , since live salamanders were extinct around the Circle Sea . |
| 11 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
| 12 | The narrator of Farewells owns a bar in a sleepy village up in the mountains . |
| 13 | Beating up cushions releases the feelings pent up in the shoulders — but such forms of catharsis are sometimes thought to be all right for Californians but not for the rest of us . |
| 14 | He was already into the champagne and mansion bracket up in the hills and very soon began his first famous relationship , setting up home with Joan Collins . |
| 15 | The thunder of it drowned his voice as he yelled at the rodman up in the bows to hold the jib clear of the stays . |
| 16 | There was a satellite dish out in the grounds , and she was keen to keep up her French and Spanish as they had improved no end since she had begun working in Peter 's cosmopolitan little shop at the resort . |
| 17 | What was a lone scumnik doing up in the habs , acting like some spy ? |
| 18 | Well not in the herring fishing but er there was also a a salt fish kind of processing place out in the Hens And me mother work at it and she used to tell us about I supposed they 'll be not rubber boats in that d days . |
| 19 | I forgot myself for a moment back in the woods , it is true , ’ he admitted in a goaded voice , ‘ but the circumstances were exceptional . |
| 20 | Blame had n't been fastened on anyone except some unknown nutter back in the wilds of Ontario . |
| 21 | After all the girl was dead , the file back in the Records Office , the only copy recovered . |
| 22 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 23 | ‘ If th'bist hoping for a piece of apple , then th'bist up in the clouds , ’ Jess said — and to Midnight : ‘ This way . ’ |
| 24 | I would n't be surprised if they were the sort of people who had the stolen bicycle down in the bushes . |
| 25 | Half the Highlanders ran away at Culloden without striking a blow ; and as for ‘ man to man ’ — if you did n't keep your bliddy head down in the trenches , you got it blown off in half a second . ’ |
| 26 | Maybe there 's a radar station over in the woods , or maybe they want everyone to think there is . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ After that write-up , it had better be something a bit more decisive than tossing each other off in the bogs . ’ |
| 28 | A Aequidens rivulatus got its common name back in the days when medium-sized fish were few and far between and by the standards then it was a Terror of an aquarium fish . |
| 29 | Some sport Gazza crops , while others lost their hair back in the mists of time . |
| 30 | It was at that precise moment the killer pack picked up their trail back in the woods , having arrived hotfoot in answer to the summons of the ultrasonic whistle . |