Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much later , in the eighteenth century , the Spanish artist Goya shows a caged owl being swooped upon by two free-flying birds , while a small caged bird sits nervously in front of it . |
| 2 | He had travelled widely in America on behalf of peaceful arbitration of international disputes and in 1893 had persuaded the Commons to resolve in favour of an Anglo-American Treaty of Arbitration . |
| 3 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 4 | What we concentrate on in Britain , is earth observation . |
| 5 | The men worked hard and as you got on in life you just thought this was home , although you had n't the luxuries . |
| 6 | While the masses and nomenklatura flocked in their hundreds of thousands to Glazunov 's exhibitions and he lived lavishly in Moscow , he ably kept going a parallel reputation for dissidence : ‘ [ He ] has been a lifetime opponent of Soviet authority , and his art has always defied the politics and prejudices of his time ’ . |
| 7 | Even the feeblest message of support from the British Young Socialists ( not of course from the Labour Party executive ) was cheered widely in Tiananmen Square . |
| 8 | It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens . |
| 9 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 10 | Well nobody can see if you sit right in front of it , can they ? |
| 11 | In effect , the Government had decided that the heavy subsidy given to the readers of the Nationalist and Uhuru , who lived mostly in towns ( half the sales and probably half the readership of both newspapers were in Dar es Salaam ) should take precedence over , for example , the building of satellite radio stations to improve reception in remote areas or the provision of community listening points . |
| 12 | The Buckau 's first series of trials at sea as a rotor ship was completed successfully in January 1925 . |
| 13 | The transfer of our central distribution operation to Brackmills , Northampton was completed successfully in October 1992 and it now handles almost 11,000 commodities . |
| 14 | Now he squatted , toad-like , by Berowne 's body , his hands hanging loosely in front of him , palely disembodied . |
| 15 | This beam is then focused by an acoustic lens , the melon , a fatty body situated right in front of the blow-hole and conspicuous by its presence in many cetaceans . |
| 16 | This hope lived on in Judaism . |
| 17 | His sentimental side gibbered wrathfully in reply . |
| 18 | It galled him to have to sit impotently in silence ; worse still , that it had been witnessed . |
| 19 | Of the 47 cases decided , Mr Platt ruled wholly in favour of the complainant in 18 and partly in four . |
| 20 | A group of artists whose work differs widely in style but is united in the interest in landscape the portrait are at Durand-Dessert until 28 April . |
| 21 | ‘ Considering you told me that you 'd taken supplies on in Oban and that you managed perfectly well all of yesterday , and that your boat is.probably stiff with tins and even bottles- ’ |
| 22 | ( This work goes on in parallel with in vivo studies . ) |
| 23 | Now I suppose that kind of model of what goes on in families has been disrupted a bit in the last few years because increasingly people have drawn attention to the way in which um often the person doing the abuse is the most powerful person within that family situation . |
| 24 | Or it could be the beginning of justice and the end of administering the law , because , how much of what goes on in court is actually administering the law , rather than determining natural justice . |
| 25 | While the official celebration of Columbus ' voyage goes on in Seville , the true extent of American influence on world culture may be seen at Marne-la-Vallée outside Paris , where Euro Disney opened this week . |
| 26 | Clearly , much research goes on in institutions of higher education . |
| 27 | exposing erm this to society what goes on in society . |
| 28 | They should neither remain aloof from what goes on in life , nor should they spend all their time solving industrial problems . |
| 29 | Well it was erm , making me go back to something that goes on in branch all the time . |
| 30 | Come and be glad and , it goes on in chorus to use yet another picture of the Holy Spirit , we 've talked of one being of fire , another picture is that of water , I will pour water on him that is thirsty ! |