Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations . |
| 2 | As Ian Macdonald points out in The New Immigration Law ( Butterworths , 1972 ) : |
| 3 | Ngo Van Loc reached out in the darkness and clasped both his sons ' hands tightly in his own . |
| 4 | Wednesday 's players are still furious over the controversial refereeing that saw striker David Hirst sent off in the 3–1 first leg defeat in Kaiserslautern . |
| 5 | Oxford United were heading for their second successive nil all game , when in the first minute of injury time , central defender , Andy Melville popped up in the penalty area to score a vital goal , and to give United three vital points in their fight against relegation . |
| 6 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 7 | David Koresh grew up in the Bible belt . |
| 8 | The Strauss waltz started up in the bedroom . |
| 9 | Katherine Lundy sat back in the darkened sitting room , her eyes on the deep red glow from the fire , the only sound the soft hissing of the burning coal and the solemn ticking of the clock . |
| 10 | When the Suez crisis boiled over in the autumn , the strain on ministers was immense . |
| 11 | As Carol Jackson moved about in the kitchen she could hear the steady burble of conversation , punctuated every so often by a laugh . |
| 12 | Liam Hamilton grew up in the mining village of Kilsyth . |
| 13 | The England manager hit back in the row with his former captain and said : ‘ I find it hard to understand how any player can retire from international football at the age of 30 . |
| 14 | So should not the law be changed immediately to prevent the likes of Dr Cox ending up in the dock ? |
| 15 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 16 | A stack of empty bamboo Tuak tubes rattled around in the back . |
| 17 | Detective Van Heflin stood up in the car , hat clamped to his head , firing his tommy gun from the hip . |
| 18 | Mr Mortimer popped up in the last episode of the seventh series of Rumpole as a guest at Mr Justice Oliphant 's lunch . |
| 19 | Wayne Biggins went down in the box . |
| 20 | ‘ Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay . |
| 21 | Mr Hildon grew up in the area and was a pupil at William Turner 's Grammar School , Coatham . |
| 22 | Selwyn Lloyd pointed out in the House of Commons , during a debate on the operations in the Oman , that Britain had to honour two types of obligation . |
| 23 | JOHN Major 's tub-thumping speech at the Guildhall on Monday night went down in the City like a lead balloon . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Dwight Yoakam twangs his way to Hammersmith Odeon IN CONCERT before Robert Palmer chills out in the sardonic surroundings of LATER WITH JOOLS HOLLAND . |
| 25 | Neither Andy Forshaw nor Martin Langston stood out in the HDM event , so Clark , for so long on the fringe of national selection , could get his chance for England in the Buttermen Indoor tournament at Crystal Palace on December 29-30 . |
| 26 | As the many Ontario lines stretched out in the 1870s and 1880s , dozens of new stations were built . |
| 27 | Philip Schutte went off in the 18th minute after a tackle on Aadel Kardooni , and Wahl Bartmann followed in the 32nd minute with a shoulder injury . |
| 28 | The Keep Sunday Special Campaign has been fortunate in getting its proposals for reform of the legislation for Sunday trading drawn out in the ballot for Private Members ' Bills . |
| 29 | It was a question she had not thought to ask until now , but there certainly did n't seem to be any obvious Mrs Prescott hanging about in the background . |
| 30 | Middlesbrough full back Gary Parkinson limped off in the final minute with an ankle injury . |