Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | he 's got er , it 's like a bank that goes up in the fields |
| 32 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
| 33 | Is there any chance you could run a page or so every now and then to explain a few of the terms that crop up in the reviews ? |
| 34 | A readable picture can be subtle and delicate , with the viewer slowly discovering details that linger on in the mind ’ ( ibid . |
| 35 | What the hell was that kiss about in the middle of all this ? |
| 36 | The union , he says , ‘ is an idea that lives on in the minds of our workers and their children ’ . |
| 37 | A happier fate than ending up in the cooking pot at Berkeley Castle . |
| 38 | A blue shape that swam up in the doorway . |
| 39 | On the road , however , in regular use , the Corrado VR6 is the one that stands out in the driver 's mind as the quickest , most comfortable , most civilised and most user-friendly of all . |
| 40 | In Elizabethan days , three hundred years later , the solitary farm of Newton , standing upon the heath that petered out in the muddy flats of the bay , alone marked the site of Edward I 's ‘ new town ’ . |
| 41 | The most lethal amphibian venom of all is secreted by tiny arrow-poison frogs that clamber about in the leaves littering the floor of the South American rain forests . |
| 42 | A good tight-fitting cap or hat is useful since there is nothing worse than groping about in the dark to recover a wind-blown hat . |
| 43 | From London to Canterbury the traffic was solid and the fumes that built up in the car made her head ache . |
| 44 | Hazel realized that until they were rested they would all be safer where they were than stumbling along in the open , with no strength left to run from an enemy . |
| 45 | There are a series of peaks that show up in the detector like a range of mountains as there are lots of gamma rays at different energies coming from the many naturally radioactive materials that are all around and within us . |
| 46 | Anne swallowed the gulp of hot bile that came up in the back of her mouth . |
| 47 | Erm , some specific points that came up in the comments that you made . |
| 48 | At one time quite a modest stock of components would enable you to build practically anything that came along in the electronics press , although the cost of the components would have been very high by today 's standards . |
| 49 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 50 | What is interesting to note about both the theory of public choice and Chicago School economic analysis of law is that their analyses , although wrapped up in the analytical apparatus of modern economics , reach more or less identical conclusions to Hayek . |
| 51 | A germ , there 's a germ that floats about in the air and if it gets onto the skin when it 's broken . |
| 52 | Those were the days when shops were shops and supermarkets had n't been invented , days of dark wood counters and lots of assistants , when carrier bags were always made of brown paper with string handles that ripped off in the rain . |
| 53 | When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home . |
| 54 | Invariably Titron came up , green water avalanching into white that flared back in the wind . |
| 55 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 56 | As much because of what is left unsaid as because of what is directly described , The Albatross is one of those exceptions which suggest that the junior adventure story has always suffered under unnecessary limitations : the names that stand out in the genre are those who in various ways have ignored or overridden these limitations . |
| 57 | Many teachers and heads felt that getting on in the primary sector required verbal and practical allegiance to certain quite specific canons of ‘ good primary practice ’ , and that anything less , let alone any open challenging of the orthodoxies in question , could damage their professional prospects . |
| 58 | Yes I think a team that can go away and sneak a win will be the team that gets through in the end . |
| 59 | The ‘ Golden Ring ’ is an eleven-day journey from Leningrad to Moscow , travelling through the ninth and eleventh-century fortified towns that sprang up in the central and north- eastern regions of Russia . |
| 60 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |