Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I remember that time when the tent blew down in the snowstorm and his sleeping bag went in the slush . |
| 2 | Hill , who survived a late collision with Berger 's Ferrari lost a lot of time in the traffic and this gave Gerhard the opportunity to close up in the closing stages . |
| 3 | He dodged away and took the opportunity to walk rapidly in the opposite direction from the one in which Stair 's lot might be , towards Pall Mall , passing the narrow courts and alleys which led from the brilliantly lit main street . |
| 4 | I do n't really understand it but the the apprentice went down in the pit of course and the older man was above and they worked this saw all this sawdust was coming |
| 5 | The bike shot up in the air . |
| 6 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 7 | Out of the front window he saw the ‘ For Sale ’ sign , the white paint of the board showing up in the light that shone from between the curtains of Tom 's cottage . |
| 8 | In comparison with literature , as Christine Gledhill has observed , the appeal of the cinema lies exactly in the offer of an escape from language into ‘ the pleasure of an achieved unity between subject and reality ’ . |
| 9 | In custodial terms , even a successful simulation exercise does no more than transfer the operational persona of an historic early machine to a currently supportable platform ( typically a 486-based PC ) which will itself be duly subject to generational obsolescence : the potential of the technique lies not in the immortality of current hardware but in the prospect of machine-independent software . |
| 10 | Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel 's family since 1942 , but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else 's , putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium . |
| 11 | Godard has revealingly said that cinema is dependent on capitalism in two senses : first in the making of the film and second that ‘ in film the money comes back in the image ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 27 ) . |
| 12 | It is advisable for the Claimant to obtain the report before leaving the airport , as airlines can dispute when the damage occurred i.e. in the airplane or after the Claimant had retrieved his baggage . |
| 13 | It seems that , although some substantial and long-standing export industries declined , others expanded their export sales over the post-war period ( although the rise slowed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 14 | Revisionist work has still to be drawn together into a full-scale synthesis , in part no doubt , because the quantity of new doctoral research in the field slowed down in the early 1980s . |
| 15 | The data allow the medical school greater control over the teaching going on in the hospitals . |
| 16 | Then he spoke , his voice not quite as calm as it had been previously , the accent humming roughly in the depths of the tones . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 18 | The gang sped off in the Pathfinder after abandoning the overheating pickup , stolen the night before , 30ft from the bodies of the two friends . |
| 19 | The Labrador bounded up in the back seat , excited by familiar smells . |
| 20 | This year 's talks come in the wake of a regeneration among unions and a feeling that industrial action — following the rail strikes early in the summer — can pay . |
| 21 | This time the difficulty lies not in the term ‘ professional ’ but in the term ‘ development ’ . |
| 22 | It is important to notice that the contrast lies primarily in the function of language which Halliday calls IDEATIONAL that is , the way in which language conveys and organizes the cognitive realities of experience , roughly corresponding to what we have earlier called " sense " : [ 12 ] The bushes twitched again . |
| 23 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 24 | Behavioural : Previous values change as the sufferer becomes increasingly in the grip of the disease . |
| 25 | Designed to enable the user to function effectively in the situations which occur most frequently in business . |
| 26 | After reading the signpost , the user moves off in the direction of his choice until he arrives at the next crossroads . |
| 27 | though David Holbrook ( 1973 ) , for one , would not agree — are the Narnia books of C.S. Lewis , but it might be argued that the story told allegorically in The lion , the witch and the wardrobe was told much more successfully in The Bible . |
| 28 | The story taken up in the press was of the interminable controversies in which the Cambridge English faculty has been embroiled : Leavis , Steiner , Kermode , now Derrida . |
| 29 | However , Soviet trade with the West expanded rapidly in the first half of 1989 , showing a 9 per cent growth in volume , while imports grew by about 11 per cent . |
| 30 | Syrian relations with its Arab neighbours and the West altered dramatically in the aftermath of Iraq 's annexation of Kuwait in early August [ see pp. 37631-41 ] . |