Example sentences of "be [adj] [vb pp] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No they 're all tucked well in , now she needs it still to be up here , right , so what 's the best thing that we can do to make sure it stays up in the high position ? |
| 2 | went to have a look in his bedrooms like and I they 're all done out in pine , every bedroom is done out in pine . |
| 3 | They 're all wrapped up in their feathers like old men in blankets trying to keep warm . |
| 4 | They 're all wrapped up in bits of cloth and lying on all this cardboard . |
| 5 | We have the club slides in our house so that you know really whoever takes over organizing the meeting should really have those and they 're all sorted out in order so it 's just a case of diving in the bag and looking for whatever you want , ever the I always try to bring some fish to look at , to the the scr to the screen erm some of the fish that were on show on the table for that particular sh er in erm table show because I think it shows interest and to learn more about the fish and it 's always nice when somebody else knows a lot more about the particular species than you do , and i is able to tell you quirks and fancies that they have . |
| 6 | Our very limited resources are all tied up in getting on with the work . |
| 7 | The Book of Earth , the cornucopia of all the tiny books that go to make up The Book of Languages and even more disconcertingly , The Book of Mirrors , are all locked up in a glass case . |
| 8 | Mothers , mothers-in-law , aunties , grandmothers , first and second ( and third ) cousins are all bound together in a community of common suffering and joy . |
| 9 | She will lunch with selected guests in the new council offices , and an hour beforehand they are all turned out in their best suits and dresses fidgeting in anticipation . |
| 10 | The underframe , legs and seat are all glued together in one operation . |
| 11 | Complicated family inter-connections are all trotted out in pointless detail , designed , presumably , to show just how very ‘ in ’ is Lady Colin Campbell . |
| 12 | The mind structure — its motives , sense perceptions and instinctive drives — these are all reflected automatically in the outward physical form . |
| 13 | Local sales taxes , motor vehicle duties , poll taxes , taxes on industry , on commuters , or on tourists , are all used somewhere in the world — and local income taxes are common . |
| 14 | APL is based on the premise that individuals can and do learn throughout their lives and that often the ensuing skills , knowledge and abilities are those recognised formally in qualifications . |
| 15 | Civil cases are first heard either in county courts by Circuit judges ( of whom there are some 430 ) ; or in the High Court by judges of the High Court ( of whom there are over eighty ) . |
| 16 | Categories of behaviour such as ‘ territoriality ’ and ‘ aggression ’ are first lumped together in an unproblematic way . |
| 17 | ‘ They were all dressed up in their Sunday best , in real contrast to the Western tourists who were all in casual , holiday clothes . |
| 18 | Thus law , religion and mortality were all bound up in the imperial title and role , and any offence against the Emperor and his law was an offence directly against God . |
| 19 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 20 | She was only guessing like , cos they were all wrapped up in paper , but she said she knew . |
| 21 | They were all thrown forward in the same direction . |
| 22 | There was a screech of brakes and then we were all thrown forward in the coach . |
| 23 | But we were all kitted out in life jackets . |
| 24 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |
| 25 | We saved them in a big tin , and when we got to the theatre and she opened it up they were all stuck together in a fluffy lump — pear-drops , and fruit-gums and licorice torpedoes and polo mints , with bits of hair and silver paper and bus tickets sticking out . |
| 26 | The expenses incurred by the college were all incurred necessarily in order properly to provide for these pupils . |
| 27 | We were all caught up in the shock and wondered what the significance was . |
| 28 | In the Kenyan savannahs where chimpanzees were first studied intensively in the wild , the animals live primarily on a vegetarian diet of fruit and leaves , together with insects such as termites . |
| 29 | These private verses were first collected up in the Nonesuch Collected Papers vol. 2 ( see MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ) . |
| 30 | These were first written down in draft form , then refined on input to the database . |