Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [art] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 You could fit in in a number of ways .
2 I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me .
3 The second charge is brought in in the presence of the first one .
4 It was your hard luck if you came in in the middle of one of them .
5 This sensation of being hemmed in in the middle of Europe was heightened by the foundation of the German Empire in 1871 , although it was Bismarck 's great achievement that he united his country in concert with the other nations of Europe .
6 This particular form of the game is not that old , having come in in the middle of the last century , when changes took place in the technology of pelota .
7 I 'd come in in the middle of something .
8 The decorator who is given the keys for the purpose of working , will be a trespasser if he lets himself in in the middle of the night to watch a video .
9 Several of the photographers and columnists were already drifting in in the hope of an early drink ( they 'd be unlucky — we could n't serve drinks before twelve ) .
10 Philippa had come early because she wanted to get in in the hope of finding an earring she had lost , before the cleaner started on the room .
11 But if a school sees itself as a community school , giving out as much as — or more than — it takes in in the shape of benefit to individual pupils , the manager must decide with some or all the partners on which aspects of community education to concentrate .
12 Simply stated , it claimed — on the basis of long-run data on wages and unemployment — that there was a trade-off between the level of unemployment and the rate of change of wages ; and that union bargaining and other influences such as changes in the structure of the labour market — were of secondary importance in in the process of determining the level of wages and , presumably , wage-costs .
13 SIDNEY POITIER and Rod Steiger star in In The Heat of the Night ( BBC2 , 10.25pm ) , a powerful five Oscar-winning story with a subplot of racism in a small southern town .
14 ‘ Six months later , comprehensive education comes in in the county of Swessex .
15 Never mind the boring breakbeat rubbish going around , this is the real story , which trips you up and hoses you down in a shower of sparkling special effects .
16 We had been getting it wrong , so were face down in a foot of water in the field doing press-ups .
17 They put it down in a strip of shade and stood to attention on either side with their rifles .
18 The track had climbed , twisted , rocked her in its pot-holes and then swept down in a flurry of loose stones and flying dust , to a house gradually lit , theatrically , as the sun returned from behind a stray afternoon cloud .
19 Her head snapped back down in a flurry of bouncing coppery hair , her eyes warily searching Lucenzo 's face for some sign of compassion .
20 She was flung violently forward , to land face down in a heap of blankets , the crushing weight of her assailant forcing all the air out of her body .
21 The gentle mercies of the lash were used even more extravagantly for civilising the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of the Empire in the nineteenth century , and in one of its anti-garotting tirades Punch ( 6 December 1862 ) had good cause to remember the lesson of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 which had been put down in a sea of blood .
22 The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own , and the curtains drawn aside .
23 At the end of April , all three withdrew from the election after being placed low down in a kind of primary contest held among the United Left 's Madrid rank-and-file to help decide who should go where on the list of candidates put before the capital 's voters ( a candidate 's position is crucial to his chances of a seat ) .
24 I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room .
25 But the success of the organisation lay in the men who ran it as much as in the formal orders ( set down in a minute of July 1942 ) .
26 Sometimes it shrivelled into itself like water splashing on hot stones , then flared out again as its owner shrank down in a spasm of coughing and straightened up again .
27 We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette .
28 He 'll be down in a couple of minutes . ’
29 The structure of the economy and society can be broken down in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes .
30 She reached her mother 's in nearby Northumberland Street and broke down in a state of shock .
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