Example sentences of "[vb base] in a " in BNC.

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1 Occasionally I treated myself to a half hour browse in a bookshop .
2 ‘ When dancers sleep in a bed ,
3 Sleep in a warm bed while you can , because you 'll be in the gutter soon enough , the lot of you . ’
4 to slump in a heap or sleep in a hump .
5 Even when they sleep in a separate room .
6 Cook in a water bath at 350°F for about 30 minutes .
7 Place thumbnail-size pieces on a baking tray and cook in a hot oven until golden brown .
8 Cook in a water bath in an oven at 280°F for about 45 minutes .
9 Cook in a preheated oven , Gas Mark 5 ( 190C/375F ) , for 1 hour 30 minutes .
10 Add all the other ingredients , cover the casserole and cook in a preheated oven , Gas Mark 6 ( 200C/400F ) , for 1 hour 30 minutes .
11 Put this on a baking sheet and cook in a preheated oven 180 °C ( 350 °F ) gas mark 4 for 12–15 minutes until golden and then cool .
12 Also rub a little Flora margarine over the outside of the skin and sprinkle with salt and pepper.Wrap loosely in foil and place the leg on a flat enamel pie plate and cook in a pre-heated moderately hot oven .
13 4 Cover with foil and cook in a pre-heated over for 10 min .
14 Leave until it rises to three times its initial volume , then cook in a preheated oven ( 220C/425F/Gas 7 ) for 30 mins .
15 Pour the sauce over the fish , cover with aluminium foil and cook in a preheated 200°C/400°F/Gas 6 oven for about 20 minutes , or until the cod is tender .
16 Cover with buttered paper and a lid , and cook in a very slow oven , gas no. 1 , 290°F. , for about 2 hours .
17 The Geste brothers are stereotypes and may be laughed at with impunity : but Charles Wogan , as A. E. W. Mason saw him in Clementina , and the ingenuous John Ridd , self-revealing narrator of Lorna Doone , exemplify the intricacies of love and honour in a way that transcends period and social niceties .
18 I think the er figures also suggest in a way that
19 Poise is directly concerned with good deportment ; a poised person does not walk noisily or clumsily , slump in a chair , or sit or bend down in an ungainly manner .
20 At home the sudden switch from inflation and boom to stagnation and slump in a few months made changes in policy inevitable .
21 Strain the custard to remove lumps or whiz in a blender for 60 seconds .
22 Grow in a pot , so you can take it indoors in winter .
23 These grow in a rosette borne on a thick , cylindrical , horizontal rootstock .
24 Aggression and violence can escalate when jealousy and envy grow in a competitive atmosphere .
25 The ancient winged insects — cockroaches , cicadas , crickets and dragonflies — also grow in a similar way , their early forms closely resembling the adults except that they lack wings .
26 And as I changed tack , the harbour came into view round the headland , with the hill rising behind it , where pines grow in a sheltered spot , and then I could make out the white walls of my house through the binoculars .
27 Changes to other genes may be implicated in metastasis , which depends upon the ability of a tumour cell to invade blood vessels , survive the host immune response , and grow in a foreign microenvironment .
28 Professor Laura , writing in the latest edition of Nature and Health , said bacteria , fungi , amoebae , worms and mites grow in a brown slime found in contaminated air-conditioning plants and are circulated and inhaled .
29 Er , what you grow in a window boxes .
30 She may be joking , but me , I just growl in a choked voice ‘ Hey , why do n't you cut us some of that cake ? ’
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