Example sentences of "[verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally I treated myself to a half hour browse in a bookshop . |
| 2 | Second , since intervention is often directed at the areas of relative weakness in a child 's linguistic abilities , it may be helpful to identify what these are and to what extent they are likely to impair the child 's ability to communicate in a variety of settings . |
| 3 | There are types of language use which demand the ability to formulate grammatical , correctly bounded sentences , and being able to exploit the formal sentence grammar is one of the most important elements in being able to communicate in a language . |
| 4 | This is an important goal in learning to communicate in a foreign language . |
| 5 | Advisers had skills in negotiating with individual creditors and in planning an overall strategy of negotiation among several creditors , arising out of their knowledge of the legal position , experience of previous negotiations , the ability to communicate in a businesslike way , and their position as independent third parties . |
| 6 | As the language of mathematics is so tightly defined , the ability to use mathematics to communicate in a particular language may take longer to develop than we would expect , and this may lead us to underestimate pupils ' grasp of ideas , particularly since language is so closely related to culture . |
| 7 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 8 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 9 | The constituent cells of Volvox , however , are coordinated , for all the flagella around the sphere beat in an organised way and drive the tiny ball in a particular direction . |
| 10 | ‘ When dancers sleep in a bed , |
| 11 | ‘ Sleep in a warm bed while you can , because you 'll be in the gutter soon enough , the lot of you . ’ |
| 12 | to slump in a heap or sleep in a hump . |
| 13 | Even when they sleep in a separate room . |
| 14 | The women work and eat and sleep in an atmosphere thick with impalpable hairs and tainted with the sickly smell of the skins … the average daily earnings are 1/1d . |
| 15 | They were finally lifted in a second House of Lords ruling in October last year . |
| 16 | Suddenly , Apanage tweaked a sequence of cords and chains , and the net lifted in a momentary puff of silk before floating down to consume the apparition . |
| 17 | One corner of his mouth lifted in a self-mocking grin . |
| 18 | His shoulders lifted in a resigned shrug . |
| 19 | His shoulders lifted in a vague shrug . |
| 20 | The small man 's shoulders lifted in a slight shrug . |
| 21 | Jack 's mouth lifted in a wry smile . |
| 22 | His mouth lifted in a token smile . |
| 23 | His mouth lifted in a wry smile . |
| 24 | Her tiny figure shook with new-found sensations and her hands lifted in an involuntary gesture to touch her tingling breasts . |
| 25 | Asking for reporting restrictions to be lifted in an effort to trace witnesses , his solicitor Ged Hale said : ‘ He is a Pied Piper sort of figure who attracts lots of children . |
| 26 | Once when I had thought Nour loved me I had delighted in a garden full of roses surrounding a villa where his aunts lived . |
| 27 | And every day of those five weeks has been a knife slowly twisting in a wound . |
| 28 | Nathan shook his head , his mouth twisting in a humourless smile . |
| 29 | GPs who volunteer to hold practice budgets will act in a similar way for those services for which they are responsible . |
| 30 | They will act in a facilitating role to help in focusing on more general social and economic need . |