Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 2 | Disseminators of " indecent " material which lacks the potency to corrupt are generally within the law so long as they do not despatch it by post , or seek to import it from overseas , or flaunt it openly in public places . |
| 3 | Or has it more in common with the intuitions of art ? |
| 4 | ‘ She said I 'd have to pay the full amount or put it back in the freezer , ’ said Mr Parker , of York . |
| 5 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |
| 6 | A white face was the only qualification required for work , modelling or hamming it up in a TV commercial . |
| 7 | He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste . |
| 8 | It is saying , and I think everyone agrees , do n't abolish this until you 've thought it through and either provided an alternative or done it again in a different way . ’ |
| 9 | No indication that anyone had been killed in it or done anything else in it but sit in it . |
| 10 | Most frogs lay eggs coated in jelly and then abandon them , but some rear their eggs in pouches on their back , in their throat sacs or hold them back in their oviducts . |
| 11 | The value of such studies is that they show plainly the ubiquity of popular political action , which may be diffuse , episodic , lacking any clearly formulated doctrine , or expressing itself mainly in religious or cultural terms , but always provides a matrix from which political organizations can emerge in favourable circumstances . |
| 12 | Britain 's top twenty girls fought or flowed it out in the championships over the weekend … the big prize for them this season is a place at the Olympics … only two girls can go … the competition is made up of four disciplines rope … hoop … ball and clubs … |
| 13 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 14 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 15 | When designing a fabric , for example , you would probably not complete the design and transfer it to the knitting machine or print it out in just one session . |
| 16 | Someone who 's forever pushing her hair out of her eyes , or stuffing it up in a clip on top of her head simply looks harassed . |
| 17 | He preferred to forget about those , or to pretend to himself that ‘ the real Marie ’ had not sent that bottle crashing into the wall by his head , or hunted him down in the darkness of the tunnels . |
| 18 | And as I 'm in the shop most of the time and know what goes and what does n't , I think you should stick by what I say or get somebody else in who 'll do it better . ’ |
| 19 | Get the notes typewritten using a new ribbon , or copy them out in black felt tip pen in large capital letters . |
| 20 | It could be that the cordless power-tool is turning a full circle , representing the original hand-tools without the sweat ; you simply pick it up off the bench and use it , or pack it away in your toolbag and take it to wherever the task has to be done , and do it . |
| 21 | ‘ Did you see or hear anything later in the night ? ’ |
| 22 | It was a sensation to me , a novice , but the experienced experimentalist learns the tricks of the trade , knows what mistakes to avoid and when weird things happen tries to investigate or to file them away in the memory — just in case . |
| 23 | If you do n't have them , use manual valves to adjust the radiators or turn them off in rooms not in use . |
| 24 | Probably the majority of paedophiliacs suppress their inclinations or indulge them only in fantasy . |
| 25 | Instead of front running his customer the broker/dealer may pass the information about the customer 's position to another trader , such as a local , who makes a profit and then splits the difference with the broker/dealer , or pays him back in some other way . |
| 26 | I had to say something humorous without being a smart-ass or putting her down in any way . |
| 27 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 28 | But unless I talked out the issue with others , or wrote it up in my diary , it may be far from clear even to myself whether or not I did verbally formulate the alternatives . |
| 29 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 30 | Ramblers are for the most part hybrids of the Japanese species Rosa wichuraiana , or have it somewhere in their not-too-far-distant ancestry . |