Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah the thing is I 've got ta write them down in the order in which they appear . |
| 2 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 3 | You know , she made him sit down in the middle in front of everybody you see |
| 4 | Having referred to the apparently absolute rule , the tribunal concluded : ‘ Nevertheless our duty is to apply the tests laid down in the Act in Section 24 ( 6 ) and to take the Code of Practice into account . |
| 5 | Yesterday , I incautiously sat down in the library in a chair just vacated by Colonel Fagg , and discovered later that the back of my entire uniform was covered in snuff . |
| 6 | ‘ Be down in the drawing-room in an hour . ’ |
| 7 | It is less evident that such a strategy would appeal to the daughter of a tradesman , who might after all be able to serve in her father 's shop , or to the daughter of a white-collar worker , to whom the printing trade might appear to be a step down in the world in some respects : inky and dirty , even if requiring literacy . |
| 8 | Cooper was not in court to hear the judgement , but the effect on McMahon was explosive : ‘ One moment I was sitting bent over in the dock in utter despair , the next I was on my feet with arms outstretched , screaming at the judges . |
| 9 | As she got out , she spotted a sign to the library , and set off in the direction in which it pointed . |
| 10 | The expenditure concerned therefore will be written off in the year in which it is incurred . |
| 11 | In the second division in this day and age , I had to climb a wooden ladder , I had to go all the way to the very top of the main stand and there was a shed , and at the end of the match , surface water forced me to dry my socks off in the radiator in the dressing rooms afterwards . |
| 12 | ‘ Then I could show Mother Francis that I 'd be back up in the convent in time for Mass in the chapel , and she 'd get to know I was to be relied on . ’ |
| 13 | Robert had made the mistake of looking Hasan up in the work in question , at the end of which he had almost decided to call in an exorcist with some experience in the Islamic field . |
| 14 | When the story was picked up in the press in January , Clinton dismissed the allegations as " old stories " and " trash " , but insisted that he would not discuss the details of his 17-year marriage . |
| 15 | Only about 20 per cent of the carbon in the coal ends up in the gas in either process , so carbonisation is not an efficient method for producing a carbon-based gas from coal . |
| 16 | Underneath the screen up in the pie in the sky I mean that I mean I 've known that when you 've only got about that much where you should have that . |
| 17 | Of course , one of the advantages of waking up in the night in a sweat is that you tend to have your best ideas whilst failing to get back to sleep . |
| 18 | On any day there was a great advantage in arriving at the Board of Trade early , for people were called up in the order in which they handed in their cards . |
| 19 | He 's not naturally aggressive — he 's not a friend of John Major 's for nothing — and he 's not nasty enough ; he 's been trying , no doubt psyching himself up in the mirror in the mornings — ‘ I will be beastly to them ! |
| 20 | Ruth unpacked the few clothes she had brought with her and hung them up in the wardrobe in the dressing-room then she plugged in her hairdrier and blow-dried her hair in front of the dressing-table mirror . |
| 21 | Almost all schools ended up in the black in the first year . |
| 22 | I cried , jumping up in the air in amazement . |
| 23 | Place your other arm on the floor for support and lift your leg up in the air in a scissors action . |
| 24 | I smiled broadly at Pointy-Beard and yelled ‘ Catch ! ’ as I threw the bags up in the air in front of his face . |
| 25 | The non-assertive character of the first three is quite obvious : the conditional clause leaves the actualization of dare up in the air in ( 31 ) ; ( 32 ) implies " she did n't dare ignore him any more than that " ; ( 33 ) is a sort of indignant rhetorical question implying that he should n't have dared take the native 's part against her . |
| 26 | She has been appointed a ‘ Goodwill Ambassador ’ by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees after her work to help children caught up in the conflict in Bosnia . |
| 27 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 28 | Local tradition maintains that over the centuries , pieces of ancient armour and weapons have been ploughed up in the area In 1796 , a carved stone was unearthed near the burial mound but its whereabouts is now unknown . |
| 29 | Immigration officials have allowed a twelve-year-old boy caught up in the war in Bosnia to enjoy a six-month holiday in England . |
| 30 | Immigration officials have allowed a twelve-year-old boy caught up in the war in Bosnia to enjoy a six-month holiday in England . |