Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] the [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Maximum impact through minimum statement is what Armani is all about — and the maestro himself lives out the philosophy in his personal life .
2 Gooch will insist that Stewart , who topped the Test batting averages , bats down the order in today 's Texaco Trophy international at Trent Bridge .
3 None of this gives the impression of an unreservedly enlightened society and bears out the differences in attitudes and opinions between younger and older people to which reference has already been made .
4 well suited or well fitted with the , with the stuff that , you know , you 've , you 've got erm I mean that 's probably the best way to do it and I also find actually trying to write things sh myself shows up the holes in arguments , shows up the bits that you need yet to fill in sort of thing
5 This , unfortunately , shows up the flaw in an otherwise excellent gearbox .
6 And it cuts up the grass in wee bits and instead of er making the roads better it makes them worse .
7 By definition the private seller did not sell in the course of a business ; that rules out the conditions in section 14 ( i.e. as to merchantable quality and fitness for purpose ) .
8 As a result , it looks as though any rethink of this weekend goes up the spout in favour of the ghastliness of paper for the beastly bureaucrats .
9 The user simply lines up the image in the viewfinder of the fixed focus lens and presses the button .
10 ‘ It all depends on how he ( Brand ) plays , ’ said the Spanish star , delighted to be back in contention a week after finishing second in Switzerland and two weeks before he takes on the Americans in the Ryder Cup again .
11 The evaporation cools down the mouth in readiness for breathing out . ’
12 Maria ties up the contents in parcels , and ( I believe ) exposes them on the hillside like unwanted infants .
13 The article in the Evening Standard takes up the issue in the same vein .
14 All Black wing John Kirwan strides down the aisle in Treviso , Italy , with his new wife , Fiorela Tomasi , an international volleyball player .
15 If you get rid of royalty , he remarked , ‘ what you 've actually done is to pull the root out that draws up the energies in your ordinary personality from whatever is beneath your personality ’ .
16 The expert clause in the parties ' contract will be the only document likely to have a decisive effect , and then only if it lays down the procedure in detail , which many do not do .
17 Tim Russon weighs up the odds in Friday Feature
18 He tots up the maths in his head — five units for last year 's domestic season and the World Cup , a unit each for 1992 's five domestic tests , two more for the venture to South Africa and four for the major tour of Ireland and Wales .
19 Oh they have this silly man who picks up the telephone in a he 's er got a chef 's hat on and he says Giovanni 's and then it was , it turns out to be one of his old friends so he lapses into sort of Glaswegian .
20 If its enemy is still not daunted and picks up the toad in its teeth , the poison acts so swiftly and powerfully on the mucous membranes of the mouth that the attacker drops the toad almost immediately .
21 Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’
22 The sun picks out the muscles in his back .
23 When the metal-rich solution , ejected at temperatures of up to 350°C , mixes with cold water , it rapidly precipitates out the metals in the form of sulphides .
24 he said that will all look bad on him he said if he sold it and er do n't I , he , he said he 's got two choices , he either sells that car and pays off the loan in both your names or he , he sells that car and gives you half
25 The care and attention given to every phrase is apparent in a selection of Etudes before an enormously conceived Vers la flamme rounds off the recital in a haze of white hot passion and intensity .
26 And if the generator gives up the ghost in the night you 've got a torch on the table , and a candle .
27 Parsons gives up the matter in disgust when Tottle fails to win the hand of the eminently eligible Miss Lillerton .
28 The quotation at the beginning of the book : ‘ Vengeance is mine ; I will repay ’ continues ‘ Saith the Lord ’ ( from the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 12,19 ) sums up the way in which Anna was treated .
29 Denis Healey , that brutally muscular intellect , sums up the problem in his memoirs , The Time of My Life .
30 Max Caulfield , in his biography of Mrs Whitehouse , sums up the argument in one sentence , saying ‘ as to the purpose of all this frenzy it was easy to explain that the forces of revolution , unable to achieve their objectives at the ballot box or , because of the existence of the nuclear bomb , by full-scale war , were endeavouring to encourage moral decay ’ .
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