Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual sail up in the " Columba. " the story is absurdly long already . " |
| 2 | Two dusty fans , which I suspected had not moved since the French walked out in 1962 , hung idly from the high ceiling . |
| 3 | In view of the abrupt falling on in the numbers of husbandmen above £20 , plus the fact that this figure coincides roughly with the wealth of the average yeoman , farmers assessed at and above it can pragmatically be counted as yeomen . |
| 4 | A MURDER trial was adjourned last night after one of the accused broke down in the witness box as she said her fellow defendant had suggested using shovels to bury a woman alive . |
| 5 | The first was an ace , the second opened up in court well enough for him to steam in and put away a brilliant backhand volley . |
| 6 | Because it is the most complex of all food elements , protein is the hardest to break down in the body , requiring a great deal of energy . |
| 7 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 8 | The inevitable slowing down in drilling which will stem from the withdrawal of the concession is bound to hit jobs at Scottish supply bases sooner rather than later . |
| 9 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 10 | Next day , Sunday , 12 March , the EXCLUSIVE screamed out in the News of the World . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's the good driving round in your stupid cars ? |
| 12 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 13 | ‘ Their emergency planning was very good , ’ he said , ‘ but the lack of experience of the Chinese showed up in their preparedness and their procedures showed they are still at the development stage in their nuclear programme . |
| 14 | The Ritzy fills up in a flash , and Katie the researcher has soon found all the contestants for tonight 's show . |
| 15 | Respectable England did not have the stomach for such a drastic curtailment of civil liberties , however , and although fearful of how to absorb the most noxious criminal elements back into society without the option of packing them off to the colonies , the deliberations of the mid-1850s bogged down in suggestions for more effective surveillance of ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ men , together with some wishful thinking about reviving transportation in some form or another . |
| 16 | This group is the first to rise up in indignation and shout ‘ witch-hunt ’ and ‘ persecution ’ whenever Christians condemn the occult . |
| 17 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 18 | If we progress past the 2nd playing round in either — we tend to go a long way … otherwise we tendto get caught cold as it were … and in the FA cup draw the finalists/winners … |
| 19 | The difference between the fragmentation described by Braverman and that analysed by Stone is that the former came about in order to de-skill and control through Tayloristic practices , while the latter came about partly in order to create a range of jobs which could be formed into a job ladder . |
| 20 | ’ Have you heard about the big stink along in Information ? ’ |
| 21 | The two looked up in surprise and Jack half rose from his seat . |
| 22 | The two ended up in a night of drunken sex in separate beds in one of the city 's most infamous housing schemes . |
| 23 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 24 | The demon passed , not once for all , but constantly , and the dead turned over in their sleep , and went on dreaming . |
| 25 | Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock . |
| 26 | It 's now a rubber-lined tray with a mini-console jutting up in front , housing switches for mirrors , head-lamp height and a coin tray . |
| 27 | Quite a few wound up in the private labs in Switzerland . |
| 28 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 29 | However , that did not stop the sense of adventure to a 20-year-old going off in 1933 in a very strange vessel called the Somersetshire , of which a very famous Air Force song will be sung for evermore . |
| 30 | Instead of the tiny inputs required in motorway driving and even on minor roads , extend the R/T and you quickly discover there 's a rapid build up in understeer and loss of chassis composure , even before the road surface deteriorates . |