Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danny the youngest had settled down in his job as a lighterman and seemed to be popular with the local girls . |
| 2 | A real roach , not one of the roach-bream hybrids of around the same weight the mere began throwing up in numbers later . |
| 3 | All in all , the grandiose hopes of the 1760s had petered out in the Sussex of the 1820s . |
| 4 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |
| 5 | What I actually said was that the price that we would have to charge for burying the dead had to go up in order to ensure that in of the circumstances our standards could remain impeccable . |
| 6 | The unnatural has taken over in the shape of the chain-saw and the bulldozer . |
| 7 | Yeah it 's no good getting bogged down in the detail . |
| 8 | The ideal solution is for her to go to stay with other members of the family to be cared for in their home , or for a relative to come to take over in your absence . |