Example sentences of "in [noun] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 2 | We also hired a speedboat in Ipsos and powered up the coast for a beautiful view . |
| 3 | Parenting education might begin in schools and continue over the first few years of married life ( Pound et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Page make-up and graphics programs allow anybody able to use a computer to change a type-face or its size , to paste in pictures and to lay out the text in almost any manner . |
| 5 | Most boots will have a mixture of D-rings and hooks to keep the laces in place and to speed up the lacing process . |
| 6 | Join up in the evening for a night out in Kos and check out the discos . |
| 7 | If a villager migrates to Bombay and makes a living as a hawker , he probably has to bribe a cop to stay in business and pay off the local mafia don . |
| 8 | For example , environmental audits of the prioritised projects of reducing chronic air pollution in Silesia and cleaning up the Baltic Sea , have shown that the most effective ways of dealing with the problems are to modernise Silesian state-owned coal burning power plants and provide sewage plants for Poland 's Vistula River . |
| 9 | He was sent back to England in 1595 and by 1605 he had set up an organization of recusant Welsh gentry , Welsh secular priests , and Jesuits ( centred in Gwent and extending up the marches ) . |
| 10 | Nintendo 's machines hit British shops in autumn 1990 but it was last Christmas , when it outsold everything else in sight and picked up the prestigious Toy Of The Year award , that things really took off . |
| 11 | Brandt was determined to develop co-operation with eastern Europe in the hope of reducing tension in Europe and building up the independence of eastern states , and he believed that East Germany 's existence must be treated as a reality . |
| 12 | ( x ) Remove each grid in turn and wash off the stain with running drops of CO2-free double-distilled water . |
| 13 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 14 | I gather up my shirt in silence and start down the ladder . |
| 15 | Brigadier Canford admired the lightning reflexes , the way she adjusted to a not-very-easy pony in seconds and showed up the others as she ruthlessly shoved them out of the way and cat-and-mouse-whipped the ball away just as they were about to hit it . |
| 16 | The daddy swayed from the kitchen , teacup in hand and picked up the receiver . |
| 17 | If I was n't an actor I 'd be covered in tattoos and pierced up the fucking ying-yang . |
| 18 | In 1981 the government authorised the project in principle and set up the Mediterranean-Dead Sea Company , which delivered a detailed study on engineering , economic and environmental aspects of the whole hydroelectric scheme last year . |
| 19 | ‘ The powers conferred by section 268 are powers directed to enabling the court to help a liquidator to discover the truth of the circumstances in connection with the affairs of the company , information of trading , dealings , and so forth , in order that the liquidator may be able , as effectively as possible , and , I think , with as little expense as possible … to complete his function as liquidator , to put the affairs of the company in order and to carry out the liquidation in all its various aspects , including , of course , the getting in of any assets of the company available in the liquidation . |
| 20 | Out of this maelstrom we can select only a few thinkers and those ideas which stand out in retrospect as marking out the major developments and as setting the scene for more recent times . |