Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher running the course checked out materials in the library as part of her planning for the course . |
| 2 | In those states whose governments have refused to have anything to do with the presidential liaison officers appointed by the president to set up offices in the nineteen state capitals , radio station staff have been likewise forbidden to make contact . |
| 3 | But police do not think the arson attack was a deliberate attempt to put out lights in the town so that the looting could take place . |
| 4 | Once a rabid animal has been found in the area , staff would be issued with protective clothing to round up animals in the surrounding district . |
| 5 | Peter set up Nottinghamshire 's library in the winter of 1978–79 with the assistance of then chairman Dick Milnes : ‘ I spent the winter filling in gaps in the collection and disposing of the duplicates . |
| 6 | In agricultural districts school attendance registers showed poor attendance at harvest time when girls of ten or eleven were set to work picking up stones in the fields . |
| 7 | jobs , maybe a good eye to pick up faults in the pattern and that but as for you have to be clever I think it 's senseless . |
| 8 | The move to build up stockpiles in the US is a result , at least partly , of such fears . |
| 9 | The agenda included a discussion of a rota to set up displays in the library , policy on the acquisition of periodicals and an intended course on information retrieval to be related to the library skills already incorporated in the basic studies programme . |
| 10 | Although that struggle brought about changes in the formal relationship between the press and politicians , it did not fundamentally alter the natural attraction that these two spheres had for each other . |
| 11 | In the late 1960s the company took over premises in the City of London and grew by adding overflow locations . |
| 12 | Each group had the opportunity of changing its membership at quarterly ‘ cavils ’ — events jointly supervised by management and union when faces were allocated to gangs by lot in order to even out differences in the ease of winning coal from particular seams . |
| 13 | cos it happened over the weekend digging up holes in the erm in the golf course . |
| 14 | What does the practising teacher of , say , science or history need to know about language , in order to bring about improvements in the classroom and cope with problems that arise there ? |
| 15 | The flames shot straight up into the sky , dispersing whatever fog was in the immediate area , and we sat around on bales , as we have always done , while some members of the family let off fireworks in the background . |