Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 2 | It was very conventional , even old-fashioned , but its tensions built up in just the right way , and it gripped like a strangler 's hand . |
| 3 | Apart from a small stain on the edge this came up in almost the bright and shiny condition that it appears in the illustration . |
| 4 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 5 | The smooth , or flush sided exterior of these ‘ Coronation ’ coaches was in Prussian Blue , with silver streaks , that continued back in parallel the whole length of the train , beginning from an inverted prow point on the circular casing over the locomotive 's smoke box door . |