Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many times had she put that on in the privacy of her room and seen the different being it presented , especially when she also donned the leghorn hat . |
| 2 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 3 | You know you are due down in the shop . |
| 4 | He did not look up until he was right down in the station ; and it was a sound that made him look up . |
| 5 | It must be pretty old , it 's right down in the chalk and yellower than my old Roman ring . ’ |
| 6 | I took Tim to the match one Easter Monday they played Luton in league match , and Ted played , the old Ipswich player , and we go absolutely , it rained , hailed , blew , and we got home soaked to the skin you know , and er it seems to make you feel better if they win you know , but if you sort of put up with those sort of things and they , they lose it 's makes you feel right down in the dumps , but when they get promoted like they did last time it 's remarkable , it 's been remarked about this aspect , that people in local industry seem to work harder , and it seems to be a boost in general local traders make shop window displays and it seems to be a boost to the town in general and give a lift to the town if you like |
| 7 | She had undergone a sea-change into something rich and strange down in the depths of Lucifer . |
| 8 | It was n't like that down in the boiler room . |
| 9 | Despite this , receptionists are usually low down in the formal organisational structure . |
| 10 | I think what 's happened the moon is is either set already or it 's so low down in the sky we ca n't see it because the buildings and things are in the way . |
| 11 | Bailey was 5–2 down in the first set tie breaker but won five successive points to draw first blood and then broke his rival in both the third and fifth games of the second set for an astounding victory . |
| 12 | How many more will try this on in the future ? |
| 13 | Manchester-based Swail , the world No53 from Belfast , closed to 4-3 but was on the rack again at 47-0 down in the eighth . |
| 14 | Some down in the Midlands . |
| 15 | what , what I wondered was if you can take some bleach down , I think there 's probably some down in the loo downstairs , and at least put some of that into , can you do that ? |
| 16 | Masur beat compatriot Jaime Morgan 3–6 4–6 6–3 6–4 7–5 after being two sets down and then 5–0 down in the final set . |
| 17 | Is this down in the ? |
| 18 | But Prean had been fortunate to survive from 10-15 down in the final game in the semi-final against the England No.3 , Nicky Mason , who had beaten him last year , while Douglas , weakened by a stomach upset , survived a hard three games with Prean at the round-robin stage . |
| 19 | Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory . |
| 20 | They are 2-1 down in the series . |
| 21 | I 'm literally wet through in the night , I was ! |
| 22 | I 'm going to cheat and look this up in the instructions . |
| 23 | and you know we could , in those days because of the number of people employed being Electric Supply and Transport , we could erm , manage to keep it a viable proposition for an evening 's entertainment then and erm , you probably can turn this up in the , the Star they 're showing erm as he was then , one of the drivers swimming from erm Stoke Bathing Place to Felixstowe . |
| 24 | The red light that shines out from high up in the nave roofing indicates the position of a True Nail held in a glass reliquary at the centre of a crucifix . |
| 25 | If he 'd been born an American he 'd have been high up in the CIA — and still informing Moscow … ’ |
| 26 | He was high up in the syndicate , which tied him in to Truro Daine . |
| 27 | The window of the charge room was high up in the wall , but through it Wycliffe could distinctly hear the strident voice of a woman teacher talking to her class . |
| 28 | Jesuit leaders said , however , that those on trial had been " scapegoats " and that the search had to continue for those high up in the military who had masterminded the operation . |
| 29 | Er , but I mean clearly the , the debt and the guarantees are paid down first and so for the reason we are high up in the pecking order , because we provided the er , the loans and the guarantees . |
| 30 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |