Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marshal and I will be down in the porter 's lodge . ’ |
| 2 | On National day John Kempton also had a runner at Worcester — Three Dons in a novice hurdle — and opted to take the ride there : having duly won , he settled down in the jockeys ' changing room to watch the National on television , safe in the knowledge that his father Jack was at Liverpool to supervise Foinavon 's forlorn attempt . |
| 3 | One of the officers showed me into the aeroplane and himself sat down in the pilot 's seat . |
| 4 | Down in the Barbican 's Pit , Thomas Heywood 's censorious rural drama , A Woman Killed with Kindness , offers much less in the way of entertainment . |
| 5 | Down in the photographers ' pit , a battalion of WWF security gentlemen keep the writhing , crowd-surfing mob back by redirecting those two-minute messiahs that get passed too close to the barrier . |
| 6 | Moving parts low down in the horn 's compass are ineffective . |
| 7 | The Captain sat down in the Brigadier 's chair where the girl 's effects were neatly folded and labelled . |
| 8 | It was a feast , swilled down in the boys ' case at least . |
| 9 | Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface . |
| 10 | If swallowed , the substance rapidly breaks down in the swan 's gizzard , and passes out with no harm done . |
| 11 | One day the screw came up and told me I had a visit down in the solicitor 's ; I went down and this man presented himself as a court welfare officer . |
| 12 | United to continued to prove to press forward but found their moves breaking down in the visitor 's penalty area . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , ‘ the earoles ’ are the ‘ respectable ’ students who obey the rules , get the better jobs but remain low down in the schoolchildren 's own counter-culture . |
| 14 | It was cold because something had gone wrong down in the castle 's boiler room . |
| 15 | On the Sunday , regulars from Manchester 's Most Excellent partied down in the Rover 's Return in an enjoyable one-off hostessed by a leopardskin-clad drag version of Bet Lynch . |
| 16 | So the teacher of a blind child , while allowing all along in the child 's education for the difficulties he encounters , still prefers to emphasise to everyone the sameness of the child ( his skills and achievements ) . |
| 17 | The mass of promenaders bulged along in the committee 's wake , creating some difficulty as they turned into the narrow High Street and into Albion Street . |
| 18 | ‘ We have invested a lot of money in people , offices and warehousing over the last two years ; and this will only show through in the company 's profits in 1994–95 . ’ |
| 19 | As he moved away , Shannon sent a silent stream of curses after the mischievous imp in her soul which had landed her in this , desperately trying to remember the instructions she 'd skimmed through in the beginners ' ‘ learn-to-ski ’ handbook Kelly had given her . |
| 20 | Eddie McNally has won through in the men 's singles Section A with wins over G Byrne 21–15 and Richard Neilson whom he beat 21–14 to face the experienced Tommy Hopper . |
| 21 | Even if Mr Takeshita drives the budget through in the opposition 's absence , he will still need time for some further bills . |
| 22 | Tonight , over in the nurses ' home on Huntley Street , a bunch of junior doctors would be putting on the usual end-of-year revue . |
| 23 | Dealing with wireless every day , Joe rarely listened when off duty to accounts of small successes put over in the announcer 's authoritative tone and the defeats intoned as if reporting a death : which it was , though not a single death , such as when Tobruk had fallen in June and Mussolini went into Libya . |
| 24 | Each month 's results are picked over in the business 's board meeting , with a head-office manager present in a non-executive role . |
| 25 | It went off in the gents ' toilet on the ground floor . |
| 26 | Bristleworms of all sizes should always be handled with forceps ; those fluffy white spines can break off in the fishkeeper 's skin . |
| 27 | Are you going to finish off in the kid 's room ? |
| 28 | This code is confusingly named 386BSD after the original 386BSD project kicked off in the university 's Computer Systems Research Group in 1989 . |
| 29 | While looking forward in its powerfully climactic , funeral-march sections to the episode of Siegfried 's death in the Wagner excerpts later , the instrumental virtuosity of its writing also seemed to pick up where the preceding concert left off in the Chicago 's bravura , if sometimes coarse-grained account of Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben . |
| 30 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |