Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 2 | Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’ |
| 3 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 5 | ‘ Buryin' 'em at sea , ’ Walter persists , and he lifts the boathook and starts to stir around in the darkness beyond the terrace 's supporting pillars . |
| 6 | To play shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the |
| 7 | In a review of studies on productivity and ageing carried out in the 1950s and 1960s , one researcher concluded that ‘ productivity is , by and large , affected only minimally , if at all , by age . ’ |
| 8 | This instruction felt like a prison sentence , and condemned to stay up in the cloud , I scanned the instruments nervously , waiting for an unseen gust to grab our little craft . |
| 9 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 10 | After watching a few people jumping and getting caught up in the excitement and atmosphere , I decided I would love to have a shot , much to the family 's amazement and Sandy 's amusement . |
| 11 | At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope . |
| 12 | Sometimes , when an eruption takes place within a large crater , the lava ca n't flow away , and gets ponded up in the crater . |
| 13 | And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all . |
| 14 | As I struggled to my feet and started to search around in the grass for my rifle , two medics were coming towards me . |
| 15 | It 's the children crying to be fed , and having to get up in the morning and pawn whatever you 've got left to buy four rolls for breakfast or a kilo of sugar . |
| 16 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 17 | Gabriel was able to slide into it , head-first , over the edge of the platform , and lay curled up in the bottom , as still as a hedgehog in hibernation . |
| 18 | Some 18 companies originally bid for contract , with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , IBM , ICL Plc , IQSoft and VTSoft losing out in the later stages . |
| 19 | Some 18 companies originally bid for contract , with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , IBM , ICL Plc , IQSoft and VTSoft losing out in the later stages . |
| 20 | He put the journal on Alexandra 's lap and went to sit down in the chair beside hers . |
| 21 | Wilcock had written about Haynes and his Edinburgh bookshop in the Village Voice soon after it had opened , and had popped up in the one-off Longhair Times too . |
| 22 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 23 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |
| 24 | If you 're going to effing bingo and Dave 's going to effing bingo , we can all go out up in my car , the girls can and have to squeeze up in the back of the car . |
| 25 | maybe like Todd 's standing by the lake yeah and Jim 's like pissed out of his head and comes driving along in the truck and drives his truck into the lake or something . |
| 26 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 27 | Initially it was thought that there was an impairment in memory for visual stimuli but work carried out in the 1970s largely dispelled this notion . |