Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the leaves that fall into the pond congregate around the loosened wire for me to collect up in a simple once daily netting session . |
| 2 | This , of course , is very unfair : it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair . |
| 3 | ‘ But after what went on in the first leg , I hope we get a referee who will be strong enough to stamp out any foul play . |
| 4 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 5 | Many of them live out in the provinces so we keep a good range of beers that include some from their part of the world , ’ explained Jim . |
| 6 | At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown . |
| 7 | The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts . |
| 8 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 9 | There were a lot of very nasty people around , then as now , and if one of them turned up in no condition for a party , lying on the towpath , there was no questions asked . ’ |
| 10 | Most of them ended up in the Middle East with Layforce , and when that was broken up they attached themselves to Combined Operations in Alexandria . |
| 11 | This comment reveals where many of the misconceptions that led to the official radicalization of land policy towards which ended up in the land October nineteen forty seven . |
| 12 | But caterpillars , most of which banquet out in the open , must look to their defences . |
| 13 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |
| 14 | ‘ That is the talk of one casting around in the dark , ’ said Ipuky with a smile like the light covering of frost which , on hard nights in the middle of peret , fringes the rushes on the banks of the river . |
| 15 | Without moving his eyes away from her dark head he oscillated between the image of the pure lady accepting the spoon , or at least the rose , and the idea of her calling out in a thrashing orgasm of female pleasure as he spurted and spurted in ecstatic triumph on top of her . |
| 16 | He stood there blankly , not knowing what to say or do , remembering only the sound of her crying out in the darkness and how awful he had felt , alone , kneeling there on the dyke , impotent to act . |
| 17 | Solicitors acting for the Princess of Wales have demanded that secret photographs of her working out in a gym should be handed over and that she should be given details of how much money was made from them . |
| 18 | She dreamed of him hurtling along in an open roadster , smiling at a blonde head and two scarlet-nailed hands spinning the wheel , reckless on the deep-banked lanes near the summer school . |
| 19 | ‘ Is there any chance of him coming out in the near future , do you think ? ’ |
| 20 | It was n't a warm day though it was meant to be spring , and she felt colder thinking of him standing about in the mud of a building site . |
| 21 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 22 | Well when you had your grab , you used to lower it on the deck of the , deck of the erm trawler and when you open your grab , that much , a lot of it hold up in the grab you see , you could n't get so of course when you did take your grab up , lot of it went over the side . |
| 23 | In other words , you concentrate not just on what 's repressed in id , but on the structure of the ego as well , and the superego , and the course of nature part of it comes out in the book as told us that Woodrow Wilson had a tremendous superego in the form of his identification with his father , who he further identified with God , I mean , if I come over very critical indeed , and therefore , his own ego was identified with Jesus Christ . |
| 24 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend draws attention to the fact that there is considerable maladministration among Labour councils , as witness the discovery of what went on in the council of Brent when it was under Labour control . |
| 26 | One view is that insider research calls for the free-ranging exploration of what goes on in the classroom without the constraint of any preconceived theory . |
| 27 | At any one time , therefore , most of the many beliefs that constitute our knowledge of what goes on in the world are beliefs that we do n't know we have . |
| 28 | But in the end , higher education is a matter of what goes on in the mind of the individual ; it is essentially a personal affair . |
| 29 | If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) . |
| 30 | The law is too rigid and recognises too little of what goes on in the housing estates and back alleys of industrial towns . |