Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William and Harry have a tree house to play in in the woods at Highgrove |
| 2 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 3 | And then Cassie felt a vibration which started deep down in the foundations of Rose Cottage and ran vertically through its structure , up to the very roof itself . |
| 4 | Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes . |
| 5 | this match will go down in the records as a runaway victory for United but all the goals came in the last ten minutes … |
| 6 | Japan said that it intended to build up its military forces to a high level so that it could cut them down in the interests of peace . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But supposing Browning for some reason has copied out some lines from his wife 's almost equally well-known A Musical Instrument , beginning ‘ What was he doing , the great god Pan , Down in the reeds by the river ? ’ |
| 9 | It is not our central concern as Christians to get bogged down in the minutiae of academic arguments concerning the merits and demerits of modernity . |
| 10 | In Cannock Forest the warden might take ten oaks from those blown down in the hays of Alrewas , Hopwas and Gailey , and in ‘ the wood called Hockley ’ . |
| 11 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 12 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 13 | These principles expand upon the basic standards set down in the rules of Conduct and indicate the standards which members should seek to achieve in the interests of good practice . |
| 14 | Soon she would lie down in the arms of a stronger lover than Tom would ever be and fall asleep . |
| 15 | Atrocities were reported on both sides ; random killings appeared to increase in mid- to late July as basic supplies in the capital ran low , and discipline broke down in the ranks of Army and rebel forces alike . |
| 16 | The unusual , possibly unique , method of election was laid down in the statutes by John Dakyn . |
| 17 | ‘ For I am weary ’ , he wrote , ‘ with rowing up and down in the seas of questions , which the interests of Christendom have commenced , and in many propositions of which I am not certain that I am not deceived . ’ |
| 18 | Australian Greg Norman may go down in the record-books as the unluckiest player in the major championships . |
| 19 | They had also been floating in a jar of pickle in the curiobiological museum down in the cellars of Unseen University , since live salamanders were extinct around the Circle Sea . |
| 20 | The fry hatch in around 30 hours and are like black slivers of wood as they hang tail down in the bubbles of the nest . |
| 21 | They seem likely to become bogged down in the intricacies of Swiss banking and Egyptian commerce . |
| 22 | She had undergone a sea-change into something rich and strange down in the depths of Lucifer . |
| 23 | And down in the highlands of the south there is the extremely rare mountain zebra , with bold but more vertically arranged flank stripes . |
| 24 | It was a bitterly cold winter with thick snow ; both sides were bogged down in the Apennines from December to April . |
| 25 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |
| 26 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 27 | Their enemies drove them out arid they were forced to live down in the marshes of Kelfazin . |
| 28 | " Later that evening , as El-ahrairah was urging his rabbits to growl more fiercely and run up and down in the marshes of Kelfazin , Prince Rainbow came over the river . |
| 29 | Press interviews with the rugger-buggers are almost a contradiction in terms — even the official , collective , post-match post-mortems after home internationals , down in the bowels of Twickenham or Cardiff , say . |
| 30 | Press interviews with the rugger-buggers are almost a contradiction in terms — even the official , collective , post-match post-mortems after home internationals , down in the bowels of Twickenham or Cardiff , say . |