Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mellor told Mr Major he felt unable to carry on in a phone call early yesterday morning . |
| 2 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 3 | If knowing how to go on in a discipline is largely a matter of rule-following , it remains the case that the rules are as much socially imposed by the disciplinary tribe as they are by epistemic considerations ( Becher 1989 ) . |
| 4 | You 're welcome , ’ then went to the sink in the far corner of the kitchen to wash his hands , came back to the fireside to sit down in a chair to the right of the oven , and watched his wife putting out the meal . |
| 5 | To sit down in a cafe you had to buy a cup of tea . |
| 6 | FOR a thriller to really thrill there should be moments when you are gripping the edge of your seat wondering if the star is indeed going to go down in a hail of bullets — one more dead hero . |
| 7 | Ask him if he will wants to come down in a minute . |
| 8 | do n't go in Charlotte 's bedroom , alright , alright , they might have to come down in a minute if you want to go up , ah ? |
| 9 | The first step , therefore , is to write down in a list all of the data that you are given . |
| 10 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |
| 11 | It was an act familiar to anyone , that is almost everyone , who has suffered from those self-inflicted illnesses that inspire only a feeling of wanting to curl up in a ball and be alone . |
| 12 | They are ideal for large breeds , or individuals which have a back ailment of any kind and may find it painful to curl up in a basket . |
| 13 | Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes . |
| 14 | You can be too geriatric to stand up in a boat … and you might quiver a bit . |
| 15 | ‘ Thoroughbreds will always be able to catch up in a race over a long distance . |
| 16 | Japanese never like to stand out in a crowd . |
| 17 | Recession , in making people unemployed , weakens worker organisations and limits the utility of the strike weapon ( the only real weapon of labour ) because labour is reluctant to come out in a situation in which the hold on a job is precarious . |
| 18 | Whether such countries choose to open up in a GATT round or in bilateral negotiations is beside the point ; opening is opening , however it is achieved . |
| 19 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |
| 20 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 21 | And worse , before an extraction he used to clank about in a tin box , producing a series of hideous forceps and examining them , whistling softly , till he found the right one . |
| 22 | ‘ It is important to grow up in a family environment . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot . |
| 24 | I need my to go up in a minute . |
| 25 | After a while , he was able to sit up in a chair , although he was still too weak to walk . |
| 26 | This conclusion , very obvious to historians and anthropologists , was a dramatic and difficult point to put over in a society which rejected this possibility as one of the first principles . |
| 27 | Six miles away , at the mouth of the estuary , the four big transporters , converted specially for the task , lifted one by one from the pad and began to form up in a line across the river . |
| 28 | I do n't buy guitars to put up in a cabinet on the wall . |
| 29 | The mind finds it much easier to work upon something than to cast around in a search . |
| 30 | Mrs Mantini did not upbraid her , but she pursed her tangerine lips and made a great thing of getting ready to go out in a hurry . |