Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
| 2 | Only the white-chinned petrel makes an occasional sortie past or drops down in the tussac . |
| 3 | Some camera systems do n't make a clean cut when you do this : the picture rolls or breaks up in some way . |
| 4 | It prides itself on this fact and points out in its brochure that while a large group can offer a wide range of services ‘ many of which you are unlikely to want … its investment managers suffer from real problems and conflicts of interest : supporting in-house issues , buying in-house unit trusts , helping its market makers and churning portfolios ’ . |
| 5 | Recruited for a tricky mission , he pinions a German plane under his own , crashes into a dam , floods a German base and goes out in a blaze of glory , having saved the British fleet from likely destruction . |
| 6 | Skipper has his breakfast and goes out in the field and I go home and am ready to start work at 10.30am — one of the benefits of being a freelance is that the person who rings up at 10.31am does n't realise that you are wearing jodhpurs and have dirty fingernails ! |
| 7 | Then it all joins up again and goes back in , goes along here , so everything that goes down there , the ten amps goes through this one again , and back into the battery . |
| 8 | Nathan gets and goes off in search of somewhere quiet , clutching a toilet roll and anxious anticipations . |
| 9 | The light-weight rock froth itself is quite familiar , and turns up in British bathrooms ; it is , of course , pumice . |
| 10 | The collection begins in 1901 with Picasso 's ‘ Woman in Blue ’ and peters out in the 1960s , although there are some exceptions , such as Miró 's late works . |
| 11 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 12 | It is an archaic situation , and lives on in the unconscious of people today , and may emerge in a random group situation , and is in any case present unconsciously and affects the action of people in groups . |
| 13 | If you live in a low-lying area where there are ponds and canals , there may be plenty of mosquitoes and gnats around in summer . |
| 14 | No matter : as the Ultra to Shakespeare 's Enigma , Hughes continues relentlessly to crack the code of symbolic language and translate it into his own cryptological system : ‘ [ Othello ] plunges into the skein of Iago 's Adonis words , and stands up in them transformed , as Tarquin stood up transformed in the skin of Adonis , over the bed of Lucrece . |
| 15 | Surely the way of transgressors is hard , and stands out in striking contrast to the ways of the Lord , which are experienced by those who walk therein to be pleasant and peaceful . |
| 16 | He puts it on his head and spins around in one motion . |
| 17 | This descends the south flank and is initially rough , but reaches a clear path that winds round Fionn Loch and leads down in surroundings that become idyllic . |
| 18 | Pensions and benefits up in line with inflation . |
| 19 | Asked to name the title of the first episode of Monty Python 's Flying Circus on BBCTV , only three readers correctly answered ‘ Whither Canada ’ ; many more correctly completed the Lumberjack Song verse as ‘ he puts on women 's clothing and hangs around in bars ’ . |
| 20 | Gabriel becomes a Senderista and ends up in prison , from which he finally escapes to go in search of Elena . |
| 21 | The central character in this story of the times is a seventeen-year-old runaway from New York City , who is taken by the whole current youth philosophy and ends up in California , where she tries to locate her brother who also headed for San Francisco . |
| 22 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 23 | In our movie a brute of a German called Otto is killed ( sort of accidentally ) and ends up in two suitcases . |
| 24 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 25 | She starts off in chicken stuffer 's uniform as seen in Letter To Brezhnev and ends up in designer punk bondage dress and boxing boots . |
| 26 | And hobbles round in distant labour camps |
| 27 | ‘ If boats use sonar or get too close , it is likely to panic the whales and cause them to scatter , and if a whale weighing over 40 tonnes becomes totally disorientated and charges off in any direction , anything could happen . |
| 28 | The eldest one could n't have children , and quarrels with her husband , and has gone dotty because she ca n't have children , and wanders around in a very odd coat all the time . |
| 29 | Someone comes to the hotel lobby entrance , looks around the car park and disappears back in . |
| 30 | And walks around in the darkness , he does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded him . |