Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.

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1 It is not love if it is locked up in the vaults of our dreams for a better world and a happier life .
2 The essence of it is summed up in the old proverb : " Give a man a fish and he is satisfied for a day : teach him how to fish and he will be satisfied for the rest of his life . "
3 It is summed up in the words of Paul about his planned arrival in Rome :
4 The treatment plan is not equipped to deal effectively with waste of such high chemical toxicity , and so much of it is passed out in the Yellow Creek to be carried away into the Cumberland River , with the result that the creek has become severely polluted .
5 The pressure exerted on that front foot when it is brought down in the bowling action is something like 10 times the bodyweight .
6 The collector will know that it is faked up in the style of an earlier period .
7 After he 's been ridden , he is turned out in the field , because he wo n't eat unless he 's turned out and I do try desperately hard to get four feeds a day into him .
8 He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives .
9 Here he is sitting up in the marital bed , his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe .
10 And do you know what , one of them is wading around in the middle of the loch , up to his waist in the water . ’
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