Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam ran crashing downhill in a narrow dark ride , almost into the arms of a man who came striding suddenly out of the bushes , sword in hand . |
| 2 | Yet , between the upper strata of the landed aristocracy and the wealthiest members of the industrial and commercial society there were many links ; and gradually these two elements came to be joined together in a single ruling group … |
| 3 | Either each bell sounds different , and each could be heard in every apartment , or each sounds the same but is wired up to sound only in a single specific apartment when pressed . |
| 4 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 5 | We therefore divided the periodogram values by the best-fit power law ( see Table1 ) , and binned the results so that the QPO features would on average appear mostly in a single high-valued bin . |
| 6 | have also interpreted an increased reactivity at position -46 to singlet oxygen occurring only in a ternary active complex , as an increase in bending allowing better contacts between the two proteins [ 32 ] . |
| 7 | Furthermore , in November 1970 , following the ‘ Davignon Report ’ , the foreign ministers of the Six began to meet together in a European Political Co-operation body . |
| 8 | THE best of east and west are being fused together in a new joint venture designed to give Courtaulds a dynamic presence in coil coatings throughout Europe . |
| 9 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | The concrete was cold to his bottom , and he stared at the stairs down which Bunty had fallen , his throat and his face and his eyes seeming to swell up in a great hot surge of grief . |
| 11 | Cut-price chains Presto and Lo-Cost , caught up in a bloody head-to-head battle with discounters like Kwik Save , managed only a small profits increase . |
| 12 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 13 | Harrods probably has one they send out in a little green van . |
| 14 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 15 | The ‘ best ’ rooms have chimney-pieces picked out in a canny false-stone effect ( in fact no more than mortar ) or else ornamented by rubbed and painted bricks . |
| 16 | Since it is essential , not only that the glue should be heated to about 150°C. but also that there should be no appreciable gap or space in the joint , the gluing operation had , in practice , to be carried out in a heated hydraulic press . |
| 17 | Therefore , the notion of being whirled around in a low-level steep bank , at maximum take-off weight , would surely have been viewed with scepticism by pilots and aircrew . |
| 18 | Around the catafalque are some of his most powerful magical items , which lie scattered around in a strange quasi-circular pattern as if they were being drawn to the catafalque in a spiralling motion and suddenly stopped . |
| 19 | However well charted the world may be there is still adventure , danger and hardship for some travellers to endure : Christina Dodwell experienced ‘ cold terror ’ while crossing the rapids of the Laigap River in Papua New Guinea ; Dervla Murphy survived an attack by wolves and several rape attempts ; Rosie Atkins , travelling round the world with her husband and two children , was trapped overnight in a battered old coach by a landslide in Ladakh . |
| 20 | It straddles the main road into Orange , but a large roundabout has been constructed for the arch to stand serenely in a wide circular grass plot in the centre of the pounding traffic . |
| 21 | Like George Habash 's PFLP , from which it had broken away in a brutal revolutionary schism , it was opposed to Arafat 's gun-and-olive-branch approach towards Israel and therefore outside Arafat 's control . |
| 22 | Harriet 's brows came together in a puzzled little line . |
| 23 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 24 | Cyclamen may also be raised from seed sown now in pots and pans and put outside in a shaded cold frame . |
| 25 | This mass of people , all dressed in their Sunday best , bedecked with badges and brass , hovers like a human shield , while the Royal in question inspects whatever is on show , shakes a few select hands and exchanges benign pleasantries , before being whisked away in a grand black limousine . |
| 26 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 27 | Novice anthropologists are not all birds of a feather but most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in a modern industrialized society of the sort which presupposes a particular type of major distinction between private affairs and public affairs . |
| 28 | But if you were Jewish , and had grown up in a strict kosher home it might be difficult to accept , even if you now had a broader view through your conversion to Christ . |
| 29 | A minute or two later he drove up in a battered English saloon car with a bumper and two door handles missing . |
| 30 | Registration and administrative and financial returns are all functions which computers can carry out in a modern general practice . |