Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could fit in in a number of ways . |
| 2 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 3 | She was flung violently forward , to land face down in a heap of blankets , the crushing weight of her assailant forcing all the air out of her body . |
| 4 | He 'll be down in a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 5 | The structure of the economy and society can be broken down in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes . |
| 6 | FOR a thriller to really thrill there should be moments when you are gripping the edge of your seat wondering if the star is indeed going to go down in a hail of bullets — one more dead hero . |
| 7 | The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished . |
| 8 | After the disastrous storms and floods of 1890 in which vast sections of Grisedale and Garsdale were washed away , bridges destroyed and people made homeless , the stone lip of the waterfall was found to have been destroyed completely by the force of the water , so much so that instead of falling from an overhanging shelf a majestic hundred feet on to the rocks below , the waterfall now raced down in a series of cascades . |
| 9 | The accounts also have to be prepared in line with the accepted practice within the accounting profession , as laid down in a series of Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ) issued by the Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 10 | down in the village for weeks after . |
| 11 | He lay Tallis down in the shelter of tents . |
| 12 | Sasbach is really no more than a scatter of houses , a couple of shops , a garage and a church set down in the middle of vineyards and orchards . |
| 13 | ‘ For I am weary ’ , he wrote , ‘ with rowing up and down in the seas of questions , which the interests of Christendom have commenced , and in many propositions of which I am not certain that I am not deceived . ’ |
| 14 | Claims brought in respect of loss of cargo will be governed by the rules laid down in the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 , the Hague-Visby Rules . |
| 15 | RICHARD : It 's too easy to get bogged down in the study of classifications . |
| 16 | Snared rabbits : slept in a chicken coop : down in the underworld of docks . |
| 17 | Some perspective on just how limited the reforms laid down in the Declaration of Rights were is provided by comparing them with the proposals for reform which had been made by opponents of the government since Charles II 's reign . |
| 18 | ‘ Go straight up there and I 'll be along in a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 19 | Fixing a three-hole mixer with pop-up waste may look a little complicated , but if you follow through in a sequence of operations it 's not too difficult . |
| 20 | The Jerry troops just sort of walked right through in a lot of places , and the next thing anyone knew we were retreating . |
| 21 | As the lava cools down further , to a dull red , more and more chilled fragments remain on the surface , and these small particles soon agglomerate together , forming progressively larger plates or rafts which cover the surface of the flow , the hot lava itself only glowing through in the cracks between rafts . |
| 22 | After the spawning , which is over in a couple of hours , remove the parents as they are avid egg-eaters , then cover the tank completely to protect the light sensitive eggs . |
| 23 | Some very optimistic people thought that the war would be over in a couple of weeks and these hopes were reinforced when news came of the invasion of Normandy . |
| 24 | just chatting with some of my mates , you know , oh it 'll be over in a couple of weeks . |
| 25 | A grateful stock market was apparently convinced that the war would be over in a matter of hours , and so the Dow Jones roared to a 114-point gain . |
| 26 | The forced sale was over in a matter of hours . |
| 27 | It will all be over in a matter of hours ; an unimaginably horrible episode , but hardly a war . |
| 28 | When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 , Mussolini thought the war would be over in a matter of weeks , and so that he could claim a share of the spoils for Italy he offered to send troops to the Russian front . |
| 29 | But the war was not over in a matter of weeks , and the Italian conscripts had neither the training nor the equipment to fight a winter campaign in Russia . |
| 30 | Everyone thought the war would be over in a matter of months . |