Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C. |
| 2 | I just went on about the frogs in the flowers , and I never thought about his dreams . |
| 3 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 4 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 5 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 6 | Cos how many things did I put in for the thingums in the draws in Asda . |
| 7 | I tried to stop him , but it were Mr Benedict coming down through the kitchens in such a bang and shouting for his groom that started it . ’ |
| 8 | He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers . |
| 9 | Moreover , most galaxies are found in clusters , and we can similarly infer the presence of yet more dark matter in between the galaxies in these clusters by its effect on the motion of the galaxies . |
| 10 | The bogging down of the tanks in the mud reminds one of the immobilization of the helicopters of the master of Saddam in Tabas . |
| 11 | Hess suggested that this took place along the deep ocean trenches , such as the Chile-Peru Trench , which runs parallel to the west coast of South America , and that the relatively ‘ cold ’ oceanic crust dived down beneath the continents in these zones , descending deep into the mantle to complete the convective cycle . |
| 12 | It must be continuous around the walls , so on a sloping site it will step up and down along the joints in the brickwork . |
| 13 | Make tying laces into a great game : sit down with the shoes in front of you both and tie and untie them together . |
| 14 | She had to chow down with the others in the common-room now she was mobile . |
| 15 | He kept in with the Soviets in case Moscow ever prevailed in Bucharest — plus the extra money he undoubtedly obtained . ’ |
| 16 | There was a prolonged crash of shutters and an intensification of the heat as the professionals fixed this moment for transmission and then eventual filing , along with the others in his life . |
| 17 | All in all , these , along with the changes in numbers and size of dendritic spines , are what one might expect if , when the chick pecks the bead and learns the association between the pecking and the bitter taste , there is a synaptic reorganization in IMHV and LPO to code for — or represent — this new association and the resulting change in behaviour — that is , to say ‘ do n't peck ’ instead of ‘ do peck ’ when the chick sees the bead a second time . |
| 18 | Zak said Nell was along with the passengers in the reception area , and that he wanted to go and see how things were shaping . |
| 19 | Now he is being invited to learn along with the children in Science , to admit ignorance ( he the headmaster ! ) , to reward discovery learning when neither he nor the children know the answer . |
| 20 | He rang off , and it was only minutes before they heard the chug of the engine of his jeep coming down from the hills in the still of the morning . |
| 21 | Spider monkeys originate from South America and rarely come down from the trees in their wild state . |
| 22 | She held up the notes she had copied down from the drums in the German docks . |
| 23 | A midwinter day … the wind to the north , the sky in rags , hail whipping in from the islands in dark squalls . |
| 24 | The home meadows were not so much white with snow as grey with sheep , a bleating , heaving block of woolly bodies , gathered in from the hills in the autumn and brought down to the Castle for feeding and safekeeping in the snows . |
| 25 | The Acts of Parliament , although applying to Scotland , use the English spelling , as do the various forms laid down in the Acts in connection with the representation at Westminster . |
| 26 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 27 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 28 | It could all come down to the doorsteps in Darlington . |
| 29 | Organised by the same curator as the Bagatelle exhibition , Solange Auzias de Turenne , ‘ Moore Intime ’ features a life-size reconstruction of rooms from Moore 's house , ‘ Hoglands ’ , complete with contents down to the books in the same order as the artist left them in the bookcases , and items from his art collection which served as inspiration for his work . |
| 30 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |