Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although today these vital units of the railway system are being phased out by the modern fully automated control centres , there still remains the lonely , isolated signal box , often miles from anywhere , that on a dark winter 's night can conjure up strange happenings and instil fear even in the heart of the most level-headed signalman . |
| 2 | HEAVYWEIGHTS , it is said , take a while to mature but tend to remain longer in the sport . |
| 3 | Nearly all children want to go out in the snow and , if they are suitably dressed , they can have many mathematically rewarding experiences as well as lots of fun . |
| 4 | Students appear to acquire more in the way of fluency than accuracy : |
| 5 | You want to stand out in the assessor 's mind but not as an insensitive bully trying to throw your weight around . |
| 6 | To play shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the |
| 7 | caught on one and I want to ring out in the other at the same time I can use it . |
| 8 | ‘ If I were you , James , I would n't call these people niggers — unless , of course , you want to end up in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Unless you want to end up in the Mediterranean . ’ |
| 10 | IF you want to get ahead in the fashion stakes , get a hat . |
| 11 | BUSINESSMEN who want to get ahead in the 1990s should move into the soft drinks , fruit and vegetables or household insurance markets , according to a report published today . |
| 12 | Well not unless you want to get up in the morning and have a bath Jonathan , it 's up to you . |
| 13 | Alison Rubenstein discovered at an early age that if you want to get on in the world and have a good career , hard work is not enough — qualifications can also be a great help . |
| 14 | I think that Mr has lost his bet because we are a party who is not obsessed by ideology we are not prepared to act indefinitely like bulls in a china shop when the owners of the shop have an infinite supply of china We want to move forward and we want to move forward in the real world and the idea that a strong government and sticking to what you want through thick and thin when clearly you 're not going to get the result you want , as indeed the government did over the poll tax , in the end you have to recognise the reality the Labour group , as much as anything else , are part of that reality . |
| 15 | And when I found Dr Kenneth , he told me someone had seen Isabella and Heathcliff meeting secretly in the garden earlier that evening . |
| 16 | We intend to participate fully in the promised review of housing revenue account expenditure which is er coming later in this year . |
| 17 | But put say like in the Body Shop and get a couple of animal soaps . |
| 18 | The sources of gravitational radiation that experimentalists hope to detect directly in the near future are supernovae occurring in our Galaxy . |
| 19 | When we have a complete account of the brain , we are assured , consciousness will be intellectually transparent and the mind will assume its rightful place as just another part of ( physical ) nature , obedient to the laws that hold sway elsewhere in the material universe . |
| 20 | I hate going out in the carriage , ’ I said quickly . |
| 21 | And there , as he ( Tethra ) lay face down in the lee of an upturned boat , … he let his thinking catch up with him . |
| 22 | oh yeah they usually manage to come back in the end |
| 23 | Legs come free and begin clawing frantically in the air . |
| 24 | And already the thin strands of cloud , the outer rings of the immense , whirling storm , begin to drift over the southern islands — Po Toi , Sung Kong , Waglan Island , the Ninepins — and the wind and the waves begin to bustle about in the harbours . |
| 25 | They seem to drift about in the middle and good grey columns or rudeness at the other end of the market . |
| 26 | actually Galatasaray and other turkish teams seem to do well in the european cups from time to time … i do not have the stat 's right here ( or anywhere else ; - ) ) — but i 'm quite sure if you check it out you will see that G. have knocked out some other ‘ great teams ’ before Scum . |
| 27 | They always seem to live somewhere in the north as typified by this quotation from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . |
| 28 | Finish pruning early in the month . |
| 29 | Ticking off another tower is known as ‘ tower grabbing , and you always seem to end up in the pub afterwards ’ . |
| 30 | Complete planting early in the month . |