Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I thought the TV aerial had blown down in the strong winds . |
| 32 | It 's almost equally inevitable that they will go down in the low income bracket . |
| 33 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 34 | Since the CSA 1985 makes no direct provision for civil remedies we must first look to the common law and then to the recent advent of statute law in the area , as laid down in the Financial Services Act 1986 ( FSA ) by virtue of s.61 and s.62 . |
| 35 | It was still widely agreed that , as laid down in the papal ranking of 1504 , the Holy Roman Emperor came first of all secular rulers , and this pre-eminence all emperors jealously guarded : it was only after considerable resistance that Ferdinand III ( 1637 – 57 ) agreed to address Louis XIV as " Majesté Royale " . |
| 36 | Disconnected , their instrument of memory fails to record anything of those common night-time moments that preceded lying down in the marital bed . |
| 37 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 38 | Another point-less return really would leave them squinting for light deep down in the Second Division 's dark vale . |
| 39 | Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory . |
| 40 | I am glad now she did lose her budgie — and find it — because if she had n't she would n't have seen my puppy trapped right down in the hollow tree . |
| 41 | In 1889 Schnadhorst 's own candidature in Newcastle under Lyme was approved but he stood down in the following year because of ill health . |
| 42 | The standard of care expected of a doctor was laid down in the following case . |
| 43 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 44 | She looked up at us very dolefully , and explained that she had ‘ fallen down in the 'igh Street ’ , and broken a bone in her foot . |
| 45 | He was put down in the spare bedroom with the blinds closed against the sun , and Jim sat with him telling him stories until he fell asleep . |
| 46 | We are sending you Hurtard our serjeant , to cause oaks to be cut down in the said forest and carried to Winchester against Christmas , for our hearth . |
| 47 | ‘ She 'll have to go down in the fattening fields with the cows . ’ |
| 48 | In addition , he confirmed that the previously scheduled municipal and regional elections would go ahead on Nov. 8 , that elections for a new Congress would be held on Feb. 23 , 1993 , and that he would not remain in office beyond his term of 1995 , as set down in the 1979 Constitution . |
| 49 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 50 | I closed the door and sat down in the one chair this side of his desk . |
| 51 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
| 52 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 53 | Somewhere outside the world went on turning , but down in the backstage changing rooms and passageways of The Gilded Cage — London 's Finest Nightspot , All-New Revue — everything moved to the beat of Performance Time . |
| 54 | He knelt down in the constricted space . |
| 55 | The Franco-German axis styles itself as the leading force in the Community and , while both countries make explicit reference to their special relationship in speeches in each other 's countries , the primacy of this alliance is clearly played down in the other countries of the EC , not least because it negates the whole point of having a community . |
| 56 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 57 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 58 | He fell heavily when 4–1 down in the first set , needed several minutes of treatment before deciding to carry on , lost the first set , but then came back to win the next two — all the time nursing his knee with an ice-pack between games . |
| 59 | Bailey was 5–2 down in the first set tie breaker but won five successive points to draw first blood and then broke his rival in both the third and fifth games of the second set for an astounding victory . |
| 60 | Miss Fletcher was 0–2 , down in the first set before taking ten games in a row and going on to retain her title . |