Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | of the possible block in round us . |
| 2 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 3 | I sent home the the that document in with the national curriculum 's er report . |
| 4 | She only knew that they had made love at all by the sticky wetness in between her thighs and on the bedsheet . |
| 5 | Quite apart from the facts , however , his Lordship found the greatest difficulty in seeing that the claim was made out in law . |
| 6 | Of course he had n't been going to fill the bloody canal in ! |
| 7 | It means keeping it , getting it wide and then putting the right ball in . |
| 8 | A SHORT-SIGHTED burglar tried to break into an optician 's but could n't see the right way in . |
| 9 | It will require some things that are going to be necessary for the statutory and voluntary sectors in any case and it will mean drawing the private sector in , like a common assessment policy for all long term care . |
| 10 | Lord Mayor , the Labour Group in have a way of bandying words about without any action . |
| 11 | I suppose this might be taken as perhaps a basic statement of Impressionist doctrine , and we know , incidentally , that the fictional painter in À la recherche , Elstir , who plays a very important role in the novel , perhaps more important than either the fictional writer , Bergotte , or the fictional musician , Vinteuil , that Elstir was modelled in considerable part on Monet . |
| 12 | Throughout the war theatre , the centre that suffered the most was probably Kuwait City , both from being captured in August 1990 and retaken by the Allies the following February and from the Iraqi presence in between . |
| 13 | ABC TV have signed the former cocaine addict to play the 16-year-old girl in Beyond Control : The Amy Fisher Story . |
| 14 | Other countries use bells to summon people to church but only the English go in for that cascading sound from a ring of six or more bells — ‘ change ringing ’ . |
| 15 | During the French Revolution in about 1790 , mathematicians and scientists in France worked out a new system of measurement . |
| 16 | If I get the darn thing in . |
| 17 | Eileen had been horrified , sure it would give them both their death of cold to let the fresh air in at night . |
| 18 | And then plenty of straw and everything and put the old vixen in and the cubs and some food for and then the old erm the old er erm what did they used to call it ? |
| 19 | Potent creatures swam in the dark sub-ocean in between worlds . |
| 20 | We are beginning to wonder what it what it takes to engage in good faith negotiations as a business with the state of California , if all it takes is one person to get up , make some kind of scurrilous allegations , and throw the entire bidding in into cast some kind of doubt upon it . |
| 21 | In the usual form of construction both the lead and return conductors are made of copper to minimise resistive loss , the outer return is braided for flexibility and the entire space in between is filled with highly insulating material such as polythene , polythene foam or polytetrafluoroethylene . |
| 22 | If you take a shape from the STANDARD section in to the ORIGINAL section , the points for that shape will of course already exist . |
| 23 | A further very important feature of this type of experiment was the demonstration that the nervous system will only develop if future muscle and adjacent cells on the outside move in underneath the outer layer . |
| 24 | Louisa sighed , her red knuckles pummelling one of Marcus 's shirts on the ribbed board , driving the soapy water in , squeezing the grime out . |
| 25 | Animal lover Ray Mackinlay took the cuddly pet in after he was discovered in the town 's Geneva Road area . |
| 26 | but Swindon are on their way … and looking forward to a home tie against Oldham Athletic from the premier league in round three … |
| 27 | A New Brutalist Conservative government has brought the moral Right in from the cold of post-60s permissive liberalism and has given it its head . |
| 28 | Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint . |
| 29 | In the A major Quartet , among 20-odd entrances of the complete theme ( with the upbeat ) , twice Mozart wrote a stroke : at the start of the development for the first violin , four bars later for the imitative entrance of the cello , but not for the similar entrance in between , of the middle strings . |
| 30 | ‘ Go on and ring the Good Sister before we have the starched apron in on us again . ’ |