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Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	When the water boils , he swishes a bit around in the pot to warm it .
2	She supposed she was feeling a bit down in the dumps , apprehensive too about celebrating Christmas Day at the Danbys .
3	Some were very angry , they thought it would last for ever ; yes a bit down in the dumps , especially the younger people , some old people looked forward to it .
4	Erm does n't do much to lift your spirits if you 're getting up feeling a bit down in the morning .
5	Fish Sparks , who 's been a bit down in the mouth since we rumbled his story , thought it was terrifically funny to start calling the Indians things like Sitting Bull and Tonto , but of course they did n't understand and anyway the rest of us sort of froze him out .
6	so , he said that she 's feeling a bit down in the dumps and quite moody .
7	Mrs Probyn was a runner up in the Miss Gloucester beauty competition in 1984 and was described by her husband , Jonathan as level headed and sensible — not the sort to contemplate suicide .
8	Well we 'll have a look back in , I 'll have a look back in the file and see what we did last time .
9	It was a revue back in the thirties .
10	She liked to ride him , as she put it , and the ride was accompanied by a kind of commentary , as if she was urging a horse along in a steeplechase .
11	They would sit outside wait in that days we had a seat out in the and even if was a seat for sitting outside they would sit on their own way or on a rock .
12	On the Tuesday his American boss had a practice round in the morning , practised for a couple of hours , pronounced himself satisfied and arranged to meet Froggy at ten o'clock the next day .
13	So put it i , put a light on in a room that you will actually be in .
14	The baker and the newsagent were open and there was a light on in the Carabinieri station that stood between them .
15	He was driving past , saw a light on in the shop and demanded to know what was going on . ’
16	There was a light on in the house on stilts ; he could see a faint glow through the curtains of the window on the left of the door .
17	There was a light on in the hall , and apparently on the second floor , though that might be a landing .
18	In one house , on the corner , there was a light on in the front bedroom .
19	putting a fence up in the
20	As I say , nowadays I get the information from you over the phone , and then when we 've got somebody who said Oh no , it 's only a small flat , I 've got this this and this and that 's the big pieces of furniture , er if it 's somebody that 's done it on spec I say Well look give me a ring back in an hour if er when you 've come off the phone you er there 's something you 've forgotten .
21	Fig 85 Maui Mayer from Hawaii performing a cut back in a World Cup wave riding event .
22	And Ford was the same , you could have a run round in a , up and down you know in a sort of , in any of the latest models and oh there were some great commercial er pavilions in the , in the place really .
23	The young duo will also have a run out in an arranged match behind closed doors against Cambridge United at Layer Road on Monday .
24	Is there a heaven up in the sky and wh why , where do we all go when we die
25	There was a man a Mr down in the North End Leslie who used to be the apprentice he took
26	I forgot myself for a moment back in the woods , it is true , ’ he admitted in a goaded voice , ‘ but the circumstances were exceptional .
27	‘ It 's so still — yet there 's a breeze out in the open . ’
28	The next morning , after Sir Thomas had been discovered dead , Brampton 's corpse was found swinging from a beam up in the garret .
29	The organizer spins a person round in a circle .
30	‘ Towing a whale around in a tiny cage when it is used to roaming the oceans defies belief and serves no purpose in welfare or education terms , ’ he said .