Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one house , on the corner , there was a light on in the front bedroom . |
| 2 | The baker and the newsagent were open and there was a light on in the Carabinieri station that stood between them . |
| 3 | She went down to make a drink , and as she turned the light on in the dingy kitchen a dark thing shot across the floor to disappear under the dresser . |
| 4 | All they could do now was to turn Moat Hall upside down in the forlorn hope something remained in the near-derelict place to hint at its erstwhile owner 's present refuge . |
| 5 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 6 | I played that on almost every album back in the early days ; it 's a black one and it 's a beautiful guitar . ’ |
| 7 | mm , did you take that tape out in the other room ? |
| 8 | Well , there was talk about er getting the old hall down in the old street community centre , not the , the |
| 9 | Yet one of the sights I treasure most in my memory is of a French river in the Cévennes where black-veined whites in their hundreds were floating among falling poplar down in the dappled sunlight . |
| 10 | I believe the young , young lady over in the other side , really told the truth , more of the truth than perhaps anyone else she said she liked it . |
| 11 | So much so , that he 's taken an ad out in the local paper . |
| 12 | What is required is an experiment in which , after non-reinforced exposure in one context and conditioning in a different context , the subjects are tested with the target stimulus back in the original context . |
| 13 | I 've informed him that we 'll be taking the place over in the near future , but not why , naturally . ’ |
| 14 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 15 | Eleanor Thorne half-sat up in the great bed , astonished at the freshness , the absolute appeal of her idea . |
| 16 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 17 | Okay so we are , w w we 're now in a position of , certainly by nineteen forty nine we 're , we 're on the verge of power , we want l we , land reform is not taking place any more , there are still some areas in the north it has n't taken place out in the far north west it has n't taken place , so we , we , we are going to need a new land reform document based on all the experience we 've got which will carry us through and , and it 's really that land reform document , document that we are going to implement for the whole of China , and it 's going to be that document which really is going to abolish feudalism and create some sort of equality . |
| 18 | ‘ I used to run that business back in the late 1960s and early 1970s , ’ he recalls . |
| 19 | Finally , though all drivers are at heart egotists and publicity-seekers ( it is part of the game ) , James always played his life right out in the open : sex life , life style and all . |
| 20 | Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s . |
| 21 | The professionals found it a tough test , with Wirral 's Andy Mitchell returning the only sub par round in the 36-hole event . |
| 22 | My father 's leg , locked solid , has given me my sanctuary up in the warm space of the big loft , right at the top of the house where the junk and the rubbish are , where the dust moves and the sunlight slants and the Factory sits — silent , living and still . |
| 23 | Presumably this was important to him ( it always was to me and I can fully understand this ) for he wrote the route up in the new routes books asking how others would feel if he subsequently went back and placed a single bolt runner to protect the route . |
| 24 | If someone puts the Black Spot on Zeneca , nothing is going to make the price perk up in the short term . |
| 25 | Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered . |
| 26 | So I drove to Portsmouth expecting a great camel of the ocean , a small luxury liner even , at least a boat that could hold its head up in the seafaring world . |
| 27 | a marquee out in the back garden . |
| 28 | If it could be measured in units related to time , the quantities may be found to be proportional to the distance back in the evolutionary chain to which an individual may revert . |
| 29 | Aunt Tossie put the long-handled gravy spoon back in the napkin-swathed pudding bowl and waited in happy expectation for the sea-kale . |
| 30 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |