Example sentences of "[vb base] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos there is n't no ventilator in it , and that 's the one we sleep in cos we 're frightened of people coming through the back door in the night , you know kicking in the back door , so we sleep in the other room . |
| 2 | During the week I 'd get home late and sleep in the spare room — ‘ so as not to disturb her ’ . |
| 3 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 4 | As I linger in the grassy cart tracks joining two fields that sleep in afternoon idleness , the smell of Rayless Mayweed crushed underfoot overcomes the other pleasant hay and pasture odours . |
| 5 | We do n't have to talk literature , y'know — I 'd as leave hear news of America , parts of which still linger in the Carboniferous Age , I understand . ’ |
| 6 | Why ca n't you read involve in the English language I do not know . |
| 7 | Cook in the usual way and eat it |
| 8 | Cover and cook in the pre-heated oven for 2½–3hr , until the beef is tender . |
| 9 | Cover and cook in the pre-heated oven for 3½–4hr , until the venison is cooked and tender . |
| 10 | Bring to the boil , then cover and cook in the pre-heated oven for 2hr or until the beef is tender . |
| 11 | Marginal plants , as their name implies , grow in the shallow water at the pool 's edge and can either be grown in planting baskets , like waterlilies , or in soil that has been placed directly on the marginal shelf . |
| 12 | Things grow in the warm darkness , I said , but I prefer it cold and moonlit . |
| 13 | In Germany , Peter Malinski has done the same , except that , whereas the Italian kites fly in the vertical plane , Peter 's are very wide span horizontal designs . |
| 14 | But now — who would have dreamt it ? the thaw is trickling , the great tit is ringing his bell from the top of a bare lime tree , the earth is scented ; and the hares bound and skip in the warm wind . |
| 15 | Fauve in the murky water , |
| 16 | The smells of incense , fruit , flowers and spices mingle in the hot air . |
| 17 | All Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland are entitled to vote if they are 18 , are resident in a parliamentary constituency on the qualifying date , and are not subject to any legal incapacity and appear in the appropriate register of electors . |
| 18 | We shall consider words , phrases and sentences which appear in the textual record of a discourse to be evidence of an attempt by a producer ( speaker / writer ) to communicate his message to a recipient ( hearer / reader ) . |
| 19 | These are SOURCE , PMODEL or FOREIGN modules which appear in the primary directory but which are not contained within any user-package . |
| 20 | Blood islands appear in the extra-embryonic mesoderm lining the visceral yolk sac and by the 10th day a complex yolk sac circulation is established , blood entering the visceral yolk sac via the omphalomesenteric artery ( Figure 1e ) and being returned to the heart in the omphalomesenteric vein . |
| 21 | hidden criticisms that only appear in the interpersonal context : the classic ‘ utopian plan ’ , ‘ not feasible ’ , ‘ without economic basis ’ |
| 22 | Some of them appear in the above list , for a hard line can not be drawn . |
| 23 | They appear in the synovial fluid in large numbers in response to infection . |
| 24 | Next , these abnormally proliferating cells accumulate in the surface epitheliam of the mucosa , and finally adenomas appear in the upper part of the mucosa . |
| 25 | Its doctrines appear in the early form in the Pyramid Texts , become more complex in the Coffin Texts of the Middle Kingdom and are further developed in the New Kingdom in the Book of the Dead , the Book of Amduat and the Book of Gates . |
| 26 | The drafting of these provisions , at least as they appear in the English text , is of very poor quality . |
| 27 | A statutory power to make delegated legislation will not empower the delegate to make rules designed to oust the jurisdiction of the courts unless very clear words to this effect appear in the enabling statute . |
| 28 | These are followed by documents relating to the SI in Britain which include Ralph Rumney 's Psychogeographic Map of Venice ( 1957 ) , and brief statements by Michèle Bernstein which appear in the British press in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 29 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , one finds that on the whole , ‘ professional ’ courses such as pharmacy , architecture and engineering ( and doubtless law if one classified its trainees as employed ) appear in the top half of Table 3.1 and the bottom half of Table 3.2 , and ‘ academic ’ courses , such as the natural sciences and the ‘ non-applied ’ arts and social sciences , appear in the bottom half of Table 3.1 and the top half of Table 3.2 . |