Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug … |
| 2 | Crumbs of advantage , Bénezet had found , may be picked up in the most unexpected places . |
| 3 | Before long Max finds himself caught up in a highly dangerous situation , where no-one is quite what they seem . |
| 4 | Sometimes vulnerable old people are caught up in a more general crisis such as a major road or rail accident , or other disaster . |
| 5 | She found herself caught up in an intensely speculative gaze . |
| 6 | Despite being caught up in an almost mystical trance , Laura had not entirely forgotten that she was n't the only person swimming in the ocean . |
| 7 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 8 | By contrast , death and decay are speeded up in the equally characteristic Peter Greenaway film , A Zed and Two Noughts ( 1985 ) , set mainly in a zoo . |
| 9 | Other weights used larger canes spaced out in a more formal pattern . |
| 10 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
| 11 | The truth is that aircraft accident investigation should be carried out in a completely impartial and objective manner . |
| 12 | Summat a all to be carried out in a much better spirit and both parties were pleased with the result . |
| 13 | As full analysis may take several days to complete it is very important that it be carried out in a thermally regulated laboratory . |
| 14 | A wide variety of work , from outer space to inner space , is now carried out in the newly restructured division ( PGGOS ) , including studies of solar and geomagnetic activity in the upper atmosphere , coastal and offshore geology , hydrocarbons on land and offshore , biostratigraphy , sedimentology and mineralogy , and earthquakes . |
| 15 | This evaluation will consider whether the school is now more effectively educating its students , and whether the change has been carried out in the most efficient way . |
| 16 | The connections were , of course , the Red Army : after 18 months of disastrous and brutal reforms , carried out in an overly reckless spirit because the PDPA leaders believed the Russians would always bale them out , Moscow decided in late 1979 that it had had enough . |
| 17 | On the 25th March 1993 Mr Howard updated the DoE guideline to planners thus ‘ it would be against the national interest to refuse planning permission for the extension of economic indigenous coal where the development can be carried out in an environmentally acceptable way . |
| 18 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 19 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 20 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |
| 21 | Professor Dyos ' study of Camberwell was the first in a series of examinations which have enabled us to see how the ubiquitous terraced streets of our great cities were laid out and slowly built up in a highly complex way , for a whole series of social and economic reasons . |
| 22 | The lace holes on his shoes are mapped out in a rather racy zigzag pattern , and he used to play in Patti Smith 's band . |
| 23 | The lace holes on his shoes are mapped out in a rather racy zigzag pattern , and he used to play in Patti Smith 's band . |
| 24 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 25 | The parchment was merely a list drawn up in a clerkly hand describing the effects and property of one ‘ Patrick Seton Esquire ’ . |
| 26 | Jamie is propped up in a neatly made bed on which lie two discarded magazines of which he might have read the covers . |
| 27 | The contemporary academic debate among economists had become bogged down in a rather arid byway of marginal costing and subsidies , and provided little useful guidance on the substantive issues of the day . |
| 28 | An attacker can be quite literally tied up in an excruciatingly painful arm twist in seconds . |
| 29 | The jokes could be played out in a fully contemporary setting and could often concern the adventures of very ordinary downtrodden men . |
| 30 | The air-conditioning ducts serving his quarters and bureaux as well as the politburo 's chamber and other appropriate parts of the building were ripped out in a most difficult , complicated exercise . |