Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the rattles and clunks it 's difficult to tell what 's happening , but I switch on the cassette recorder in case . |
| 2 | to try and switch on the cassette player in the bedroom . |
| 3 | The sixth came after young Sarah Wade sneaked in to take on the Stockton defence in style . |
| 4 | Best wishes to Vera Reeves , a member from this area , who has embarked on the Teachers Training Course and will , we are certain , help carry on the Medau tradition in Hertfordshire . |
| 5 | Johns is one of five current full internationals poised to take on the host country in their opening group game as Ireland contest one of the major sporting titles in the world , albeit in the abridged version . |
| 6 | In story after story people ( or aliens ) have simply switched on the antigravity drive in order to be able to travel cheaply and effortlessly between the stars . |
| 7 | Du Plessis , who took on the Finance portfolio in 1984 and was regarded as heir-apparent to de Klerk , said that he was retiring because he was " exhausted " . |
| 8 | ‘ an appointed representative whose principal … is a member of such an organisation … and is subject to the rules of such an organisation … in carrying on the investment business in respect of which his principal … has accepted responsibility for his activities ; … |
| 9 | ‘ an appointed representative whose principal … is a member of ( a recognised self-regulating organisation ) and is subject to the rules of such an organisation … in carrying on the investment business in respect of which his principal or each of his principals has accepted responsibility for his activities ; … |
| 10 | Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster ? |
| 11 | Cram 's club-mate David Sharpe , looking for an 800 metres time inside 1 min 46.2 secs , moved further down the pecking order in the two-lap event after quick times by two of his rivals in Dijon : Wolverhampton 's Steve Heard , who was third in 1 mins 45.65 secs , and Haringey 's David Strang , fourth in 1:45.85 . |
| 12 | Charlotte booked into a hotel in the centre of Boston and hunted down the telephone directory in her room as soon as the porter had left . |
| 13 | The Labour Party 's part in bringing down the Chamberlain Government in May 1940 was recognized by the central roles allotted to Labour Ministers in Churchill 's Coalition Government . |
| 14 | Early in his career he turned down the title role in David Lean 's Lawrence of Arabia ( eventually played by Peter O'Toole ) after producer Sam Speigel insisted he sign a long-term picture deal . |
| 15 | Some fifteen years ago , it was extended and now goes around the northern tip of the peninsula before turning south for a straight run down the west coast in bleak country , featureless except for the sad ruins of abandoned crofts yet relieved by glorious views across to Skye and the islands of the Inner Sound . |
| 16 | They have advanced down the Asmara road in the past four weeks and are now reported to be operating south of Dese . |
| 17 | It had been known at the time of his appointment that Miyazawa and members of his Cabinet had been implicated , in varying degrees , in the Recruit-Cosmos share scandal which brought down the Takeshita administration in 1989 [ see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] . |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Pontefract and Castleford ( Mr. Lofthouse ) asks leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he believes should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ the effect on unemployment of the announcement by British Coal to further run down the coal industry in his own and in neighbouring constituencies . ’ |
| 19 | But at least drugs stopping the development of full-blown AIDS have kept down the death toll in the West . |
| 20 | In INDIA , for instance , despite the sterilisation scandals which helped to bring down the Ghandi Administration in 1977 , there are now new reports of widespread sterilisation abuse in Gujerat ( using famine relief as an ‘ incentive ’ ) and Rajasthan ( using promises of employment as an ‘ incentive ’ for tribal women ) . |
| 21 | Your sincerely PS Join us today : just fill in the application form in the enclosed leaflet — there 's FREEPOST so you do n't need a stamp — and show your support for the countryside . |
| 22 | Once you have made your choice all you have to do is fill in the booking form in the normal way on page 95 of the main brochure . |
| 23 | Or a man with her husband 's build parading down a Paris runway in Calvin Klein 's latest skivvies . |
| 24 | ‘ People from the UK are astounded when they walk down a cookie aisle in the US , as it may be 60 feet long . |
| 25 | Dungannon nearly increased their lead when Jonathon Hastings charged down a Highfield kick in midfield . |
| 26 | I REMEMBER once seeing a small girl remove a tin of soup from halfway down a display stack in a supermarket . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's redlining it at 6,000 , ’ he said , referring to the straining Tachometer , while firing down a bus lane in first gear at about forty . |
| 28 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 29 | 1982 — FOUR months ' pregnant with William , the future king of England , the Princess crashes down a Sandringham staircase in an alleged suicide attempt . |
| 30 | But since then £2 million-rated defender Neil Ruddock has handed in a transfer request in an indication of behind-the-scenes unrest . |