Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] in the [adv] " in BNC.

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1 However , despite the best efforts of the BBC and other giant mass publishing houses to clog the best-seller lists with the epitome of semi-literate publishing , literacy keeps breaking through in the most unlikely places , and nearly always from American rather than British programmes .
2 Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard .
3 Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century .
4 But the Grand Emissary had swung up in the very newest model of the Novablast Personaluxury Liner , making me feel like a meteorite next to an asteroid .
5 In any case , as social workers we have to struggle along in the here and now .
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