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

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1 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 .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 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 .
4 At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown .
5 The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 But caterpillars , most of which banquet out in the open , must look to their defences .
9 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 .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 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 .
12 ‘ Is there any chance of him coming out in the near future , do you think ? ’
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 ) .
23 The law is too rigid and recognises too little of what goes on in the housing estates and back alleys of industrial towns .
24 At the weekend there was a bunch of us playing down in the alley-way near Julie 's house .
25 And I warn you , if any of my designs or anything like them turn up in the showroom at the House of Oliver I shall sue — and win the sort of damages that will put your little friend out of business for good .
26 Oh it would have been half as small , and she used to tell us grand stories with them setting off in the morning with their a bottle of milk and their , it 's like a pi with them , to keep the fire going to keep them warm and everything .
27 When the night time comes up comes along you look up in the sky and say where 's the moon gone .
28 Ted , 51 — now trained in law and first aid — said : ‘ As a cleaner I 've had an insight into what goes on in the cells . ’
29 The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user .
30 When the Hon. Gentleman has seen all the details , he should compare them with what went on in the valleys when he was a Minister .
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