Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This hangar was all closed up apart from one door , so he drove in in the semi-dark and reversed rapidly into what he thought was an empty corner without checking it first for parked vehicles . |
| 2 | I lay down in the woods and went to sleep . |
| 3 | He looked down in the hole and he saw Mossycop in his uniform . |
| 4 | It forms when chlorine-containing compounds such as CFCs break down in the stratosphere and then it triggers photochemical chain reactions that can destroy as many as 100000 molecules of ozone per molecule of ClO . |
| 5 | I shall settle down in the country and build cottages , and mix draughts . ’ |
| 6 | She did not like flying and the mental energy involved in getting through the ordeal without flinging herself down in the aisle and drumming her heels was considerable . |
| 7 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 8 | If you break down in the tunnel and you require assistance , the fireman takes from the driver a Wrong Line Order , colour green , and walks to the signal box , putting down three detonators as a guide when he pilots the Break Down on the wrong line to the train . |
| 9 | Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize . |
| 10 | Only when they were sitting down in the chop-house and Dr Neil had ordered them soup and rolls , followed by lamb chops with seasonal vegetables , and a glass of red wine each — ‘ Good for your shattered nerves , ’ he said gravely — and they were waiting for the soup to arrive did Sally-Anne have time to look about her . |
| 11 | And in fact prices would seem now to be levelling off somewhat throughout the country , slowing down in the North and levelling off at the current levels in the South . |
| 12 | But uncle was to creep down in the night and abuse the little girl he was giving shelter to . |
| 13 | A little while ago children were expected to be down in the mines and underneath textile machinery , so they were n't actually treated as children , they were erm wager earners at a very low age , as soon as they could be walking they were doing a job , so I feel that we 're all children in fact , there is no great division between being a child and being an adult , and we in fact ca n't always cope with what 's happening and the shocks infect . |
| 14 | We get down in the darkness and from time to time we pull the wire . |
| 15 | Where you hang upside down in the air and |
| 16 | They sat down in the road and , when the state police dragged them away , they threw jackrocks under the wheels of the ‘ scab ’ trucks ( a jackrock is a couple of sharpened nails welded together so that no matter which way they land , they always have a point sticking up in the air ) . |
| 17 | Then I remember that time when the tent blew down in the snowstorm and his sleeping bag went in the slush . |
| 18 | Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held . |
| 19 | We crouched down in the trench and drank our tea , listening to the crump , crump as two mortar shells exploded close by . |
| 20 | We never discovered her real name , but she ran a small cafe down in the village and she appeared to have an inexhaustible supply of eggs . |
| 21 | Des and Rufus have agreed to stay down in the outboard and wait . |
| 22 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 23 | I do n't know about the Stanley No. 45 , but I just put my Record Multi-plane upside down in the vice and pass the wood over the ‘ sharp end ’ . |
| 24 | You just snuggle down in the feathers and hang on . ’ |
| 25 | Also give yourself a good rub down in the shower or bath with their Body Sea Scrub Bar , £3.95 . |
| 26 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 27 | Silver of this period is especially rare as much of it was melted down in the Revolution or to fund wars . |
| 28 | He put her suitcases down in the driveway and reached into the boot to pass her a carry-case which Belinda recognised as containing a portable monitor , something like an electrically amplified stethoscope , which meant that it was often possible for a pregnant woman to hear her baby 's heartbeat as early as ten weeks into the pregnancy . |
| 29 | And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all . |
| 30 | and then er dad and Mike come down in the Sierra and met us in the pub . |