Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd of 7,000 — Aberdeen 's lowest of the season — had little to enthuse over in a drab second half in which Aberdeen had several excellent chances but displayed their old failing of not converting demonstrable outfield superiority into goals . |
| 2 | One answer is that studies of comprehension are generally very much easier to carry out in a controlled way than studies of spontaneous production . |
| 3 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 4 | That morning , just after Sullivan had received a cable form Washington telling him to inform the new government that the United States would continue diplomatic relations with Iran , machine guns mounted on the surrounding buildings all opened up in a pre-arranged barrage . |
| 5 | All duded out in a double-breasted suit with my shoes all shined . |
| 6 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 7 | They 've found the undertaker 's clothes all tied up in a neat bundle in a shed on the moor . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It shall all go up in a great fire , and all shall be ended ! |
| 9 | There 's al , it 's like next Friday we 're all planning to go out but there 'll be fifteen of us , see we all go out in a big group . |
| 10 | The three teams all start out in an eight-team Fourth Division . |
| 11 | ‘ Heartbreak Hotel ’ has much of the spooked-out feel of ‘ Mystery Train ’ ( a Sun label epic ) , plus tons of anguish and theatre and ripping guitars , all wrapped up in a lovely , echoey treatment . |
| 12 | It all comes out in a bubbling , chattering flood of enthusiasm and that irresistible blend of diffidence and dogma which is one of the presiding characteristics of late adolescence . |
| 13 | Even now , however , he is prepared to accept that he may not be able to come back in a new guise after three years . |
| 14 | The farm uses a variety of chemical packs , including powders like Goltix in packs , occasional metal cans for Metasystox , bags of manganese , water-soluble packs and oily sprays like Optica which can be difficult to hose out in a conventional way . |
| 15 | Heavily-backed to follow up in a Listed event at Newmarket last month , King 's Signet was exposed for pace in the closing stages by Stack Rock and Garah . |
| 16 | The most serious problems over credit use — sometimes an extreme manifestation of one of the general problems , such as the relationship between ignorance , high-cost credit use , and over-commitment ; sometimes something quite distinct — are too rare to show up in a quantifiable way in a sample survey such as ours . |
| 17 | But Lydia had discovered , to her own surprise , that she found the matter too significant to quarrel about in a childish way . |
| 18 | We bore a letter of introduction from Werner Meyer to Puang Ranteallo , son of the late king — whom we at last tracked down in an astonishing arena . |