Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 2 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 3 | For some obscure reason , Tawell was convinced that installing himself in the company of such a simple and pious set would give him a veneer of respectability , however he conducted himself otherwise . |
| 4 | Nevertheless the constructive work of Communists in the Blitz and the war factories kept the Party alive and put it in a good position to exploit the opportunities for expansion that followed Hitler 's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 . |
| 5 | If you need to keep them longer , rinse and pat dry and store them in a sealable container in the fridge . |
| 6 | They will need staking and tying to prevent damage from wind and when finished , lift , dry and store them in a frost-free shed for replanting the following year . |
| 7 | ‘ So , ’ Nathan pulled the towel from his shoulder and tossed it aside , ‘ after you 've tidied the galley , wipe the oilskins dry and hang them in the locker . |
| 8 | If the SNP manages to overcome its bitterness towards Labour and join it in a united push for change , the cause of devolution could well be advanced . |
| 9 | She takes a left turn at random and finds herself in an area of derelict buildings , burned out and boarded up , the site , she realizes , of the previous year 's rioting . |
| 10 | ‘ You remember : they wear pants and take us out to dinner if we 're very lucky and kick us in the teeth every chance they get . ’ |
| 11 | All you need to do is fill in the registration card that comes with your software or peripheral and pop it in the post box . |
| 12 | Erm we have the graduates who we 're training up and they 're not very good and drop us in the mire sometimes . |
| 13 | Then we can return to the problem of persuading the giant to leave us alone and ask who in the drama has those qualities ? |
| 14 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 15 | ‘ We must tread carefully , because my postbag suggests that allegations of rape can arise from previously non-sexual relationships , where the man goes too far and persuades himself in the passion of a moment that ‘ No ’ means ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I have work to attend to , Master Corbett The inn-keeper 's body has been coffined and has now to be churched before the villagers become too drunk and dump him in the pond . ’ |
| 17 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 18 | Clean the gunge that is probably beneath these brushes , rub everything clean and return them in the right order . |
| 19 | When it 's as warm as it is tonight , you 'll be able to leave the hatch open and imagine yourselves in the heart of Venice . " |
| 20 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 21 | Those of us who did n't join up until 1943 , either because we were too young or like me in a reserved occupation , did n't really stand much chance of promotion , not unless we were absolutely brilliant and not many of us were that . |
| 22 | During the Winter period , remove the rhizome , cut the leaves right at the base , trim the fibrous roots very close and place it in a container with clay and sand or clay and sand covered with water . |
| 23 | Prune your notes if necessary and arrange them in the order in which you would like to use them . |
| 24 | Alison signalled her appreciation of this pun , but took a neo-McLuhanite line herself , arguing that since actuality was the essence of the medium , watching a classic novel on television was as odd as reading it in a newspaper . |
| 25 | Ever since 1986 , when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department took the last black-footed ferret from the wild and placed it in a captive-breeding programme , the intention has been to reintroduce the species to the prairies of Wyoming as soon as enough individuals had been bred . |
| 26 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |