Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed somehow deeper , as if its roots lay hidden in the past . |
| 2 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 3 | When an organization invites the Prince or Princess of Wales to make a speech on their behalf , it is customary for them to write a draft , incorporating any appropriate facts and figures or particular message that they want conveyed in the speech . |
| 4 | Those gaping soldiers were prepared to die for the queen , not because they loved their mother , not because they had been drilled in the ideals of patriotism , but simply because their brains and their jaws were built by genes stamped from the master die carried in the queen herself . |
| 5 | He says they wer injured in the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 6 | And that prediction comes from a man who should know — George Best , who witnessed the brilliant individual goal by Giggs which put United in the driving seat at White Hart Lane . |
| 7 | ( iv ) Close the chambers with a second coverslip and stack them in a 50 ml polycarbonate centrifuge tube with a hole drilled through its base and a Perspex plunger inserted in the bottom third of the tube . |
| 8 | The activated enzyme was then supposed to eat away at the synaptic membrane so as to expose more NMDA receptor sites which , until thus exposed , remain buried in the membrane surface and hence inactive . |
| 9 | The lessons of the Public Health era often seem forgotten in the West and are not integrated into the medico-technical intervention model which has been ‘ exported ’ to other countries . |
| 10 | ‘ I have snapped my squeaking baby-trumpet of sedition , ’ he wrote in April 1798 , ‘ and the fragments lie scattered in the lumber-room of penitence . |
| 11 | What secrets lie buried in the past ? |
| 12 | We stand wrapped in the night while I continue talking . |
| 13 | He stipulated that his kinsman John Herringman should have ‘ my Coppyes and partes of Coppys of Books as they stand entered in the Register Booke of the Company of Staconers … provided that he serves out his seaven years of Apprentishipp justly and truly ’ . |
| 14 | Rats run freely over the shrouded corpses which lie abandoned in the corridors . |
| 15 | In Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses , two Indian men , Farishta and Chamcha , fall out of an aeroplane and hang suspended in the air before landing on the shore of Britain , where they begin to reconstruct their identities . |
| 16 | Giant clams on the reef may grow to be a metre long ; they lie embedded in the coral , their mantles fully exposed , a zigzag of brilliant green flesh spotted with black , which pulsates gently as water is pumped through it . |
| 17 | This idea of the diversified , fully funded scheme ( that is , run to match assets with present and future pension liabilities ) has been applied most widely in America and Britain , where its principles have been written into law ; it has also spread into Japan but scarcely at all into Germany , where company pension reserves frequently remain invested in the firm 's own shares . |
| 18 | Now you go into a seniors citizens ' club , you enter your name and you get registered in the register , you get your cup of tea and then you get social activity . |
| 19 | But remember included in the holiday price , we have already negotiated many little extras to make your holiday special . |
| 20 | You get caught in the lavvy |
| 21 | Never mind , she said , three quarter length sleeves are much easier to wear when you want to do machine knitting — long sleeves get caught in the machine ! |
| 22 | Those firms which get caught in the middle appear not to do so well . |
| 23 | Oh do n't worry about putting them in piles , they only get chucked in the bottom of the box |
| 24 | I never get buried in the weeds . |
| 25 | And they get slaughtered in the process . |
| 26 | I get recognised in the street . |
| 27 | " They get kicked in the teeth . " |
| 28 | Now if you damage yourself by whatever way , and the classic one that we see at school is if you get banged in the eye in rugby , somebody elbows you in the scrum or something similar , you then get a swelling caused by what ? |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , Father , I know what people say about my Mickey , but as you know yourself , stories get stretched in the telling . |
| 30 | but if you think about it , there is the hard ones can have a lot better ca n't they , I mean the only thing that 'll actually harm them is that if you get poked in the eye or something and it shatters the lens cos they are actually |