Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again and again he swiped at Chloe , but she remained convinced that this was a game and every time her friend approached she darted away and went to sit somewhere else in the clearing , her tail brushing the ground frantically . |
| 2 | A bath safety-rail made of chromium-plated tubular steel makes getting in and out of the bath much easier and safer ; and a bath seat with a back support eliminates the need to sit right down in the bath ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 3 | Already , the germ is present which was to flower most fully in The Last Battle : the idea of school holidays being a mere Platonic shadow of our permanent refreshment in Paradise , of our earthly homes being but a reflection of heaven . |
| 4 | For Pickford The Eternal Grind was a step towards her true screen self , which she was to discover most fully in The Poor Little Rich Girl of 1917 , a film which satirized the rich whilst it confirmed its star as the richest actress in the world . |
| 5 | He draped inflamable material over it and calibrated the switch to come on later in the day . |
| 6 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 7 | Such cross-shareholdings are commonplace in Japan and in continental Europe , but tend not to work so well in the US — Control Data had 20% of Silicon Graphics and sold it ; Compaq Computer Corp sold the stake it bought to cement the Advanced Computing Environment Initiative in less than a year . |
| 8 | ‘ I used to work so hard in the week I had no energy left to enjoy weekends and I became awful to live with . |
| 9 | With information coming from 90 governing bodies , Touchline can be very time consuming , however , if we receive the information in legible writing and a clear format we will be able to work more efficiently in the future . |
| 10 | As Max Jacob became one of Beatrice 's favourites , his name begins to appear more frequently in The New Age . |
| 11 | By the time of the second inquiry the house had effectively been abandoned for nearly twenty years and was suffering from extensive coal mining subsidence ; and it was likely to suffer still more in the future . |
| 12 | The few that did live near the quarry tended to wander off hurriedly in the opposite direction whenever they saw a nome . |
| 13 | In fact , today 's activities had offered some hours of reprieve from thoughts of him — at least until such time as they were due to meet up later in the afternoon . |
| 14 | Two , to see whether we can knock down the price and whether we can get him to come up here in the same way as Doctor does and do it that way to reduce the costs . |
| 15 | But it 's nice to stand out there in the warm steam , getting warm . |
| 16 | He said that an English sergeant who acted as orderly in the ‘ cooler ’ had told him this , and that he had promised to come back later in the day with some cigarettes for us . |
| 17 | We 're planning to come back later in the year for a full week at least . |
| 18 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 19 | The arguments would appear to be evenly balanced , but we must also consider whether Chrissie and Fred are likely to work well together in the future after she has ‘ informed ’ on him . |
| 20 | This is cattle country though you rarely see any until dusk when they appear from nowhere to stand about morosely in the middle of the road , waiting to be run down . |
| 21 | Water sharing talks were held in Vienna on May 13-14 , chaired by Austria , and attended by more than 30 delegations , which agreed to meet again later in the year to discuss a number of issues including the creation of an international data-base on water , cross-border co-operation , methods of water management and ways to increase water resources . |
| 22 | It is very difficult to find anywhere else in the world . |
| 23 | The first systems using Unix V.4-compatible micro-kernel operating systems technology from Chorus Systemes SA ( UX No 406 ) could also emerge this year : in Japan , auto manufacturer Toyota is already running the software , but on Motorola 88000-based systems unlikely to appear anywhere else in the world . |
| 24 | Another point to remember is that if all four pictures are to sit comfortably together in the overall design , then all the material used should be of roughly the same size . |
| 25 | It was not , he answered , through want of trying : clubs were either unwilling to sell so early in the season , or were asking too high a fee . |
| 26 | Socialism and fun were here colliding , whereas conservatism and fun seem to bounce along happily in the YCs . |
| 27 | One of the challenges is to engage more convincingly in the process of evaluation . |
| 28 | Eligible employees in the UK were invited in May to participate once again in the BP share schemes . |
| 29 | The fact that they had mostly borrowed to modernise their economies and communications infrastructures in order to be able to participate more effectively in the global economy merely added piquancy to their plight . |
| 30 | This suggests that the overall effect of the intercalator is to alter the stereochemistry of the intrastrand coordination crosslink to permit the RNA polymerase to track more freely in the major groove for an additional one or two bp prior to some part of the polymerase being terminally blocked . |