Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun sg] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we 're going to go as a council in the direction of not answering letters on time . |
| 2 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 3 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 5 | His mouth opened slightly , her tongue touched his upper lip once , then slipped away again ; she kissed him quickly on the cheek and turned , walked to a doorway , fumbling for a key in a small purse she took from her old fur coat . |
| 6 | He fought as a banneret in the first Welsh war of 1277–8 , visited Gascony and Paris on Edward 's business in 1278–9 , and fought again in the second Welsh war of 1282–3 . |
| 7 | He applied for a post in the service of the archduke : but Ferdinand was advised by his mother not to burden himself with such ‘ useless creatures who travel around all over the place , like beggars ’ . |
| 8 | After reading a letter about youths and unemployment , the gist of which was their unwillingness to work , I was incensed by the statement , ‘ Even if they applied for a job in the catering industry , it would be something ’ . |
| 9 | To go for a drive in a boyfriend 's car seemed the height of sophistication . |
| 10 | Stretching to ease tired muscles , she debated whether to go for a swim in the pool or opt for a long soak in a warm scented bath . |
| 11 | Bunny , Martin and the other two girls decided to go for a meal in a Swedish restaurant Bunny said he knew in Lisson Grove , the Dead Zone between the Edgware Road and Lord 's Cricket Ground . |
| 12 | ‘ They 'd probably need to go for a week in the Bahamas afterwards , just to get over it . ’ |
| 13 | If you have an urge to go for a walk in the moonlight , do it ! |
| 14 | The truly empathetic New Man positions himself by the head of his partner 's bed , knows when to go for a walk in the park and , reverting to a traditional male role , protects the woman from unwanted intruders . |
| 15 | I was more concerned with persuading Agnes to go for a walk in the tree-lined garden , and foolishly dismissed the Ralembergs ' unease . |
| 16 | Away in the distance , tucked between a fold in the surrounding hills , was home . |
| 17 | Even allowing for a difference in the extent of lateralisation of executive aspects of speech , revealed by the Wada test , and receptive aspects , tapped by the dichotic listening technique , this figure of IS per cent is too high to accord with the evidence from brain damaged populations . |
| 18 | In the cross-piece this is achieved by lashing through a hole in the cross member and around the outside of the stanchion . |
| 19 | This does not imply that Rassendyll is developed as a character in the round . |
| 20 | He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system . |
| 21 | Certainly small business , through its close connections with the ruling LDP party , has lobbied for a shift in the established policies of support and protection for big business . |
| 22 | Policeman Christopher Larkin was honoured as a hero in the Hungerford Massacre , and last year , he was back in the news again . |
| 23 | He was not accepted into the department of meteorology but registered as a student in the department of mathematics , where he wrote a doctoral thesis on ‘ The Theory of Development in Dynamical Meteorology ’ . |
| 24 | Also , unlike a book , you can not browse through a video in the shop , so its content remains a mystery until after you have purchased it and taken it home . |
| 25 | It 's never going to rumble through the floor in the way that a similarly priced 4x10 would , but they 're obviously catering for a gap in the market which is n't being filled very successfully . |
| 26 | Cattle theft was recognized as a problem in the early years of British rule . |
| 27 | In 1891 came the publication of African Aphorisms , or Saws from Swahililand , an annotated collection of some 600 proverbs ; the work ( reissued in 1924 ) provided an outlet for his immense erudition , and became recognized as a classic in the domain of Swahili studies . |
| 28 | It is more difficult to talk about the construction of ‘ physical science ’ than it is to talk about the construction of physics , because physical science is not recognized as a discipline in the way that physics is . |
| 29 | The Regional Council has not attempted to argue that increased levels of infill can and do compensate for a shortage in the HP4 supply . |
| 30 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |