Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't press it down to get more in the scoop or add an extra scoop for luck — it 's not necessary . |
| 2 | ‘ What sort of accommodation have you got in Harwich ? ’ she asked , as we went off to sit down in the lounge . |
| 3 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 4 | My support for Leeds is just as great as my hatred of the scum , so I for one will be rooting for a 1 nil defeat on saturday , with Leeds hopefully going on to do well in the FA cup . |
| 5 | ‘ To be realistic we need other teams to slip up to sneak through in the league so the cup is really our priority , ’ says 29-goal striker David McCallen who grabbed that sensational winner against his former club Linfield in the quarter-finals . |
| 6 | ( It is said that distinguished foreign guests of the Swiss Confederation visiting Bern are invariably taken out to dine somewhere in the Emmental . ) |
| 7 | The Territorial Army was therefore entitled to the credit for having trained those people , because there is no way in which , having volunteered off the street , they could have gone out to serve effectively in the Gulf . |
| 8 | Rupture of the hymen could theoretically be a Category 2 offence where the defendant deliberately set out to do so in the belief that he would thereby be able to have sexual intercourse with the woman . |
| 9 | Anyway it did n't matter cos you were very good , and you went back to sleep again in the end then you did n't wake up till after daddy had gone to work this morning ! |
| 10 | Then he went back to lie down in the corner of the cell . |
| 11 | The Gate House project 's about to open up in the middle of town , which is a drop in centre , sponsored by city centre churches . |
| 12 | She was just about to get back in the car , when she heard another vehicle coming up the hill fast . |
| 13 | Similarly , as the debate on the president 's tax reform bill was about to get underway in the House the speaker ‘ all but conceded the battle was lost — largely as a result of heavy lobbying by the president , his aides and voters mobilized by Reagan 's television appeal ’ . |
| 14 | Dominic Woosey purveys his own brand of ambient House , lightly peppered with acidic loops , whilst Cosmic Baby turns the acid machines up full and demonstrates why Germany is about to take off in the same way that Belgium did last year . |