Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put them on in the afternoon ; my mother became very silent . |
| 2 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 3 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 4 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 5 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 6 | No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match . |
| 7 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 8 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 9 | Japan said that it intended to build up its military forces to a high level so that it could cut them down in the interests of peace . |
| 10 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 11 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 12 | But I just said put them down in the book . |
| 13 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 14 | In the wild , a fish can get around this problem by absorbing much bigger molecules and then breaking them down in the gut wall or bloodstream . |
| 15 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 16 | We used to chop them down in the slaughterhouse on two pulleys , you see . |
| 17 | And erm she said all right and I said what do I do with them and she said I 'll put them down in the base at the back and I said all right so I went back on the shop floor just before I was coming out come out . |
| 18 | Yeah the thing is I 've got ta write them down in the order in which they appear . |
| 19 | Take them down in the kitchen and do them down there . |
| 20 | All of them enthusiastic — questions are coming think and fast , not at the end of a lecture — I think we actually slightly dominate them because we 're not school teachers , but quote with a big U ‘ University lecturers ’ , but get them down in the laboratory and the questions come thick and fast from boys and girls — no difference whatsoever . |
| 21 | It just started from there and Michael said he liked the way I played and that he would help me along in the industry , and this was just before his career hit . |
| 22 | At any rate , when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus , I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed , willing my eyes to stay shut , but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end , and I had to open my eyes and listen . |
| 23 | I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past . |
| 24 | He put me down in the Brompton Road — very kind and understanding — saying ‘ If you walk from here , you 'll keep him waiting just a minute like all you ladies do . ’ |
| 25 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 26 | One afternoon when Dad and Davey had gone fishing , Mum sat me down in the kitchen . |
| 27 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 28 | And the chauffeur drove me down in the car and sat beside the car waiting on me . |
| 29 | Once my lady 's sister was staying at Hurst Castle not far off , and there was to be a grand ball , and her ladyship sent me over in the coach to dress her sister 's hair , Lady Winton that was . |
| 30 | All right , I was Marius ’ personal assistant and there 's no reason to assume that Nigel would want to take me over in the same role . |