Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] 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 | ‘ She said I 'd have to pay the full amount or put it back in the freezer , ’ said Mr Parker , of York . |
| 3 | A white face was the only qualification required for work , modelling or hamming it up in a TV commercial . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Get the notes typewritten using a new ribbon , or copy them out in black felt tip pen in large capital letters . |
| 11 | If you do n't have them , use manual valves to adjust the radiators or turn them off in rooms not in use . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had to say something humorous without being a smart-ass or putting her down in any way . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 18 | Jane had decreed bowls rather than plates for the curry and spooned it out in the kitchen whence it was ferried by Christopher , Francis and Martine ( Jane 's mind darted back involuntarily to Puchero and gauchos in Argentina ) . |
| 19 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 20 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 21 | I 've seen my mam take sheets off a bed and tear them up in squares . |
| 22 | It was the Deutsche Bank which bought the great and corrupt Flick empire from the family owners before they could restructure it and sell it off in sections : it was Deutsche as well which , within the space of a few years , succeeded in transforming Daimler-Benz into a huge diversified Konzerne , making it the largest in the country , by successively buying the motor company MTU , the aeronautics firm Dornier , the electronics firm AEG and merging them with Messerschmitt Blohm to give birth to an industrial empire of 400,000 employees and £27 billion turnover . |
| 23 | So we go up and pick her up in Kensington , bring her back , she unpacks her bag and plonks herself down , she eats everything that 's put in front of her , and second helpings , |
| 24 | If not I 've only got to put them up in the attic and bring them down in three month 's time . |
| 25 | Right go and get that sword in the pampus grass and bring it back in here . |
| 26 | Insert needle again in the lower stitch and bring it out in the next stitch to the left ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 27 | The candlelight had taken his cheap suit and made it over in some priceless fabric . |
| 28 | I was n't prepared to put things under my arm and hawk them around in Bond Street so there was a long gap . |
| 29 | Bill takes a Coke , rips the ring pull cleanly off like painful bandaging and drinks it down in one , like it was a glass of water . |
| 30 | He shook out the handkerchief and stuffed it back in the top pocket of his jacket . |