Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 2 | I send minutes laid out in the proper style . |
| 3 | The Agreement also revises text set out in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 4 | This literally causes water to pile up in the western Pacific : a veritable hill of water . |
| 5 | This provided a package of financial incentives and exemptions from various laws and regulations to encourage businesses to set up in the zones . |
| 6 | When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area . |
| 7 | They say time slows down in the barrel . |
| 8 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 9 | A grant from the Theatre Trust should ensure plays put on in the former church now Saltburn 's Community Centre no longer literally bring the house down . |
| 10 | Legislation to tackle joyriding drawn up in the wake of last summer 's Tyneside riots comes into effect tomorrow . |
| 11 | I have demonstrated clearly how we will bring Government borrowing down in the years ahead . |
| 12 | I 've often seen toddlers jumping about in the back of cars ahead of me . |
| 13 | It is often better to bite your lip and let pupils charge off in the ‘ wrong ’ direction , because the more of this kind of work you do the less you will be able to define ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 14 | I say ‘ by great good luck ’ , because the Turkish authorities do not like foreigners wandering about in the neighbourhood of frontiers , particularly the Russian frontier . |
| 15 | With so much media space currently devoted to the heinous depredations the naked ape has inflicted on his habitat , it seems an inappropriate moment to celebrate the career of an artist whose entire work reflects his abiding faith in mankind ; an artist who gloried in presenting humanity dressed up in the paraphernalia of a glamorous performer , or as an honest victim of other men 's rapacity , so as to elicit for him the onlooker 's sympathy . |
| 16 | Sometimes Buddie stacked trays of eggs above the pipes to incubate , and after a few days there would be dozens of fluffy , chirruping chicks hatching out in the heat . |
| 17 | We watch Lucker rooting around in the car . |
| 18 | UI reportedly told staff laid off in the last two weeks that it was short of funds , attributing the situation to an accounting error . |
| 19 | A couple are planning to drive their vintage Rolls Royce through the Alps to help children caught up in the war in Croatia . |
| 20 | She has been appointed a ‘ Goodwill Ambassador ’ by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees after her work to help children caught up in the conflict in Bosnia . |
| 21 | ‘ Also I ca n't see cafes catching on in the North , we have n't got the weather to sit outside . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Get Hawkins to go down in the cellar and help thee , and mind th'do n't get up to any pranks . ’ |
| 23 | Set beside the estuary of the river Dovey in Cardigan Bay , it is a 6,445-yard par-71 , but naturally Wee Woosie goes round in the mid-60s . |
| 24 | It is also women who are the targets of the state 's sex stormtroopers , the Special Claims Control squads set up in the 1970s . |
| 25 | Moving parts low down in the horn 's compass are ineffective . |
| 26 | The Further and Higher Education Bill implements policies set out in the two White Papers : Education and training for the twenty-first century and Higher education : A new framework . |
| 27 | Fred White and Sandy , the friend he had agreed to meet here , sat on the shore and watched people splashing about in the water . |
| 28 | As she opened the front door of 97 , Becky could hear Daphne splashing around in the bath . |
| 29 | We 'll have Anne tied up in the libraries for two or three days going through the periodical indexes , that 'll be another hundred plus whatever the xerox charges are . ’ |
| 30 | When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that . |