Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk . |
| 2 | It was the most terrible place she had ever been in in her life . |
| 3 | The laibon 's cattle are streaming in in their fullness . |
| 4 | Then Sir Alfred pulled in in his Bentley and promised me a free hand to design a car that worked . |
| 5 | There 's more £10,000 to be won each week in the Daily Mirror — and a chance to win even more prizes in in our sister papers , the Sunday Mirror and The People . |
| 6 | Of course judges will disagree about which rule , laid down in which circumstances , would in fact be best for the future without concern for the past . |
| 7 | Soon children will be lending each other America is Falling Down in which Michael Douglas , a disillusioned middle-class businessman , grabs his gun and storms a merry path through the city , showering bullets like confetti on anyone who gets in his way : especially if they happen to be Korean or Cuban . |
| 8 | Then the last of the human tide swept past him and he started down in their wake , guiding Karen with a protective arm round her shoulders . |
| 9 | It is these duties that are approximately laid down in their conditions of service : to work for so many hours , to teach those classes , to attend these meetings , to undertake these extras . |
| 10 | Down in their kitchen , like a lighted box |
| 11 | Commercial property values are depressed and only some companies may have adequately written them down in their accounts . |
| 12 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 13 | And when the family came running down in their night-clothes , all the crockery was smashed in the kitchen , all the glass in the dining-room , every mirror in the house cracked to pieces ! |
| 14 | A special vote of the Mexico City-based WBC agreed that Lewis should receive 75 per cent of the £9 million-plus windfall instead of 80 per cent ( £6,777,622 ) as laid down in their rules for a champion defending his title in the challenger 's country . |
| 15 | Dr Piperno studies phytoliths — small pieces of silica that plants lay down in their tissues to discourage animals that might want to eat them . |
| 16 | MR DAVID MELLOR , the Home Office minister handling the Broadcasting Bill , is a civilised chap , the sort of Government minister you will find on a Friday night addressing the Putney Music Club on brilliant young musicians ( Cantelli , Lipatti , Ginette Neveu ) struck down in their prime . |
| 17 | History is littered with illustrious corpses of talented people cut down in their prime due to over-indulgence and a streak of self-destruction . |
| 18 | There are enough big money players cut down in their prime to give the new boy nightmares . |
| 19 | Nevertheless Fraser McLuskey 's account of air crashes does suggest that the Maquis or the local French population in general would soon have known of planes which had come down in their territory , and that the Germans , when told of wrecks , did in fact bury the crews in identifiable graves . |
| 20 | This can be a vacuous form of words , conveniently forgotten as students settle down in their maths , their physics , their geography lessons to acquire ideas which are , we acknowledge , of potential general application , but which are likely to be of little use if the connections between theory and practice are not made explicitly . |
| 21 | The event went down in their traditions as the greatest act of salvation ever performed by their God on their behalf . |
| 22 | They kept their heads down in their books though they had long ceased to study , unwilling to catch his eye or even to breathe loudly . |
| 23 | God knows what nonsense they have written down in their notebooks . |
| 24 | The reverse was found to be the case in some instances , with some larger companies being slowed down in their introduction of new technology because of bureaucratic organisations and industrial relations arrangements . |
| 25 | Martin Lee of WHS felt that , to the group 's benefit , people were trading down in their gift buying generally and that some its higher priced books did well as a result . |
| 26 | The rest of them wriggled down in their seats , not wanting to be seen , not daring to say anything . |
| 27 | Cooney can fulfil their wish by cutting him down in their Atlantic City conflict , without inflicting the harm of which Tyson is capable . |
| 28 | Cooney can fulfil their wish by cutting him down in their Atlantic City conflict , without inflicting the harm of which Tyson is capable . |
| 29 | SAUCHIEHALL Street was the place to be seen of a Friday or Saturday evening , and not only men but unaccompanied young ladies would stroll up and down in their finery , smoking in public . |
| 30 | The political dimension was played down in their speech . |