Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.

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31 Has there ever been a tennis player that has written in to say ‘ thank you ’ to their fans who have stood by them through all their traumas and their losses , who have stood for hours in the rain or slept out in the streets to get a look at their idols ?
32 LUKE PARKED HIS Chevrolet Celebrity on the fifth floor of the studio carpark and rode down in the elevator with two minor executives in tracksuits who were discussing the latest records broken by ‘ 'T IS He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ .
33 Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer …
34 We returned from our walk aglow with wind-reddened cheeks , divested ourselves of boots and outer layers of wrapping and flopped down in the deep chairs of the sunset-lit lounge chatting , until David left at around 10 p.m .
35 Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode .
36 This season Murphy has already sent out 12 winners while his boss is often left to drive the horse-box and saddle up in the parade ring .
37 We stayed all day , suffering short drenching showers of rain and drying out in the hot spells in between .
38 Taking a deep breath , he walked slowly across the room and sat down in the easy chair directly facing his mother .
39 I get into impossible scrapes but win through in the end .
40 Protect your hair from changing colour or drying out in the sun by using a hair sunscreen with conditioners .
41 We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees .
42 Could just go to sleep and enjoy a good night 's kip and wake up in the morning .
43 They had organized a decoy system whereby Carolyn drove Diana 's car to entice her press pursuers away and then Diana would emerge from Coleherne Court and walk off in the other direction .
44 He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby .
45 Schellenberg turned up the collar of his greatcoat and leaned back in the corner pulling the peak of his cap over his eyes .
46 We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar .
47 I 've seen better men than you think they could handle the drink and end up in the gutter with a bottle of the fortified wine . ’
48 He took a sip of his own drink and sat down in the leather chair closest to the fireplace , looking into the authentic fake gas flames as he sipped his drink .
49 After a few moments she climbed down to the space station and ran off in the opposite direction to the shapechanger .
50 She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away .
51 Estée Lauder 7 Day hair Complex at £25 is a treatment to apply at night and washed out in the morning .
52 Press seam allowance to the wrong side on the lining and notch out in the same way .
53 After Crawford 's three-month break , during which he got sunstroke and fell down in the garden , breaking two bones in his foot , he and Cuka started rehearsals .
54 I drank three pints of water and then eased the wheelbarrow backwards onto firm ground and trundled on in the certainty of my safety .
55 Before starting to write , read through the whole of the examination paper and jot down in the margin the names of plaintiffs ( or criminal defendants ) in any relevant cases you remember , the dates of statutes and any other details that are likely to elude you when you come to write out the question .
56 fictitious site of the shooting picnic at which Pickwick drinks too much punch and end up in the pound .
57 Well yes , but I mean it 's she seems to do the opposite thing to Charlotte , cos she used to sleep in the morning and fidget around in the afternoons and this one fidgets all morning and then sleeps in the afternoon .
58 Er sometimes I , I 'm , I get a lot , a lot of things on , I have at the moment , an awful lot of things on , so everything is you know getting in a p a tight path and fast , so I deliberately thoroughly enjoy taking my dog and wandering along in the park .
59 Instead of spending most of his time shooting game and striding about in the parks of his estate , he should have stopped Spencer from ruining Thomas Grenfell 's life and casting a shadow on Craig 's own business .
60 Lee got up and picked up a piece of cross-stitch tapestry from the top of an old record-player and sat down in the rocking-chair , her back to the two young people .
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