Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 2 | Life becomes crazy when I 'm recording Birds Of A Feather so I tend to organise working lunches and sit down in a restaurant to get my fuel . |
| 3 | If these lines come into contact with others of ‘ foreign ’ material such as a polyester , then they melt through in a trice and your kite is away , floating down on the breeze leaving you with two rather expensive short ends . |
| 4 | The best and longest-lasting tans are acquired slowly — quick tans are usually fast burns and peel off in a trice . |
| 5 | and fly off in a shower , airily |
| 6 | An children grow up in a flash , |
| 7 | And those that do , grow up in a sub-culture that is a disgrace to England ; unable to read or write , born to crime as a way of life , most of them have never even seen the inside of a church . |
| 8 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 9 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 10 | The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time . |
| 11 | The students hurry about in a state of permanent excitement , as if they were amazed to have been chosen to live in such a sumptuous place , to eat breakfast under chandeliers . |
| 12 | Tired and exhausted mentally and physically ; break down in a sweat and become excited and irritable . |
| 13 | A group of them , maybe as many as half a dozen , will slowly get to their feet from where they have been lying with the rest of the pride and , leaving the cubs and the males behind , walk off in a fashion which , although leisurely , has a grimly purposeful air . |
| 14 | Bear in mind that cold cures and certain drinks contain prohibited substances that show up in a drugs test . |
| 15 | After a time , all knew that the concourse was not going to turn sour or break up in a fight . |
| 16 | It had seeped through his clothes and spread out in a half-circle , staining the grass and soaking into the sandy soil . |
| 17 | An apple tree grew flat against the wall on one side , and in spring , when it blossomed , it was like a huge , lacy fan all spread out in a froth of flowers and leaves . |
| 18 | I know I walk around in a daze most of the day but this is bloody rediculous . |
| 19 | You walk around in a skirt and wear a bra , how was I to know ? ’ |
| 20 | The French are just laughing at us as we stumble around in a fog . ’ |
| 21 | The rock slice is placed face down in a polythene tray into 30% HF solution for 3 or 4 min . |
| 22 | She was flung violently forward , to land face down in a heap of blankets , the crushing weight of her assailant forcing all the air out of her body . |
| 23 | Now detectives are trying to unravel the mystery of how he came to be found face down in a ditch in a plantation on Scotston Farm , Auchterhouse , nearly eight miles from his home on the Ardler estate in Dundee . |
| 24 | To find out what effect this has on the perch 's eggs , and how much the minnows gain from the ploy , Reiko Baba of Japan 's Osaka City University spent up to six hours a day face down in a stream , armed with a snorkel and face mask . |
| 25 | Mr Peter Jowett , 43 , was found face down in a copse on his 1,000-acre Wiltshire estate on Wednesday night with a .38 bullet lodged in the centre of his back . |
| 26 | It is beautifully painted with scenes of the dead person 's funeral along the sides , and scenes of Elysium , or the way to Elysium , on the ends ; smiling goddesses in plumed head-dresses ride along in a chariot drawn by a griffin on one end , and by a goat on the other , presumably ready to convey the human soul to Elysium , to live ever after with the gods . |
| 27 | The strong ‘ New York Mix ’ , with its vocals that shimmer through in a Robert Owens-style haze , is a step up for dub house garage and is matched by a gently acidic , dubbier epic and a ‘ Detroit Mix ’ with an intro and a forest of familiar sounds from someone heavily influenced by the dextrous inventions of Derrick May . |
| 28 | There , where the sea floor suddenly drops to three thousand feet and more , they dive down to about 1400 feet and swim off in a southwest direction . |
| 29 | Then I run off in a storm to see an astrologer . |
| 30 | It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque . |