Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in [noun] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Workmen cleaning up one of the less contaminated rooms hastened out in alarm after their air meters showed they were breathing dangerously low levels of oxygen . |
| 2 | Former political prisoner Farouk Okullu told an Old Bailey judge he lashed out in desperation because his private parts were extremely sensitive following agonising torture he was subjected to in a Ugandan jail . |
| 3 | As it turned out , he was interviewed only perfunctorily six months later , because events had moved fast in Germany and her neighbouring countries and to meet any threat to Britain , her allies , her interests and her Empire , the Services , particularly the Army , had more than doubled their manpower . |
| 4 | He believed strongly in physiognomy and his instincts were rarely wrong . |
| 5 | Woodlice breed well in captivity if their surroundings are kept damp and they have enough food . |
| 6 | Perhaps this came about in part because his idol and friend , Wordsworth — to whom he was in some way in thrall — had left the district to go to France and make a settlement with his French mistress and daughter as a prelude to marrying his childhood sweetheart back in England . |
| 7 | Julius murmured softly in satisfaction and his body pressed still closer , demanding more now , desire a hard ache that was threatening to run out of control . |
| 8 | The lawyer said the pair had fallen deeply in love and his client was ‘ devastated ’ by what had happened . |
| 9 | It is n't only home-owners owing more in mortgage than their home is now worth who are suffering . |
| 10 | Panoramic visions of the whole village circle going up in flames while our cameras captured the moment danced before our eyes . |
| 11 | The average household throws away 3kg of waste paper every week , most of which ends up in landfill where its breakdown contributes to the production of explosive methane gas . |
| 12 | Indeed , it floats about in fluid so its physical position varies , but every location along the chromosome is precisely addressed in terms of linear order along the length of the chromosome , just as every location along a computer tape is precisely addressed , even if the tape is strewn around the floor rather than being neatly rolled up . |
| 13 | The ministries become bogged down in detail when their energies and resources should be concentrated more on overall policy , and the ad hoc commissions grow disillusioned and frustrated because they are not allowed to get on with the job . |
| 14 | but er I 'd meet up in town and our house like twenty past nine , half past , get , get , get the bit of shopping done before the fucking crowds I might off wasted me time , we got in there about ten o'clock , right old day . |
| 15 | Jean 's landed safely in Sunderland and its return means she wins a trip to London to see Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat . |
| 16 | Marcos 's widow Imelda broke down in tears but her daughters Imee and Irene maintained their composure . |
| 17 | The scythemakers were found in the north Worcestershire parishes of Belbroughton , Chaddesley Corbett and Clent , the lockmakers worked mainly in Wolverhampton and its chapelries of Wednesfield and Willenhall , and the bit makers were mostly Walsall men . |
| 18 | If you do n't receive Housing Benefit or Income Support you should apply now in order that your application can be dealt with at an early date . |
| 19 | His face has appeared regularly in newspapers since his arrest , once under a tabloid headline which screamed ‘ Blue Arrow rogues guilty ’ . |
| 20 | Wardens , Suninder Gogner and Christine Hoy-Taylor , were detained overnight in hospital and their condition yesterday was comfortable . |
| 21 | It had been developed earlier in Solihull and its use with the Oxfordshire teachers allowed us to compare their attitudes with those of the Solihull teachers . |
| 22 | So I am asking you to stay on in Rome until her recovery is complete . ’ |
| 23 | The belligerence of their message and the violence of their appeal to negation and revolt is now passed over in silence and their works appear as if they were blank sheets to the privileged audiences of the present day . |
| 24 | The man reared back in pain and his hands went up to his face . |
| 25 | Ruth cried out in despair as his mouth and tongue teased her feminine core . |
| 26 | Ards were the form side when the Cup kicked off in January and my dark horses for the final . |
| 27 | The study shows Japanese firms investing more in R&D than their American counterparts , relying less on government funding and exporting as much technology as they import . |
| 28 | She groaned aloud in pleasure when his kisses continued down to the swell of her bosom . |
| 29 | As Brah and Deem point out , Afro-Caribbean young women are stereotyped as ‘ pushy ’ , but achieve better in schools than their male counterparts . |
| 30 | A TIPSY husband ended up in hospital when his wife hit him over the head with their Christmas tree . |