Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The implications of being 4–0 down in an 11 match contest were telling , and despite a spirited display by Virginia Humphreys Davies in the opening contest on the second day , when she outlasted Lisa Albano to reduce the deficit , there was little anyone could do to delay the inevitable .
2 Bailey was 5–2 down in the first set tie breaker but won five successive points to draw first blood and then broke his rival in both the third and fifth games of the second set for an astounding victory .
3 Masur beat compatriot Jaime Morgan 3–6 4–6 6–3 6–4 7–5 after being two sets down and then 5–0 down in the final set .
4 But Prean had been fortunate to survive from 10-15 down in the final game in the semi-final against the England No.3 , Nicky Mason , who had beaten him last year , while Douglas , weakened by a stomach upset , survived a hard three games with Prean at the round-robin stage .
5 Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory .
6 ‘ It was a good match and because I always felt I had a chance to break Byron I was not too unhappy when I went 3–0 down in the last set .
7 He was 5-3 down in the fourth game against Peter Hill before winning 9-1 , 9-0 , 2-9 , 9-5 in a patchy , not to say puzzling , match .
8 Bates , 5–4 up in the first set tie-break broke a racket string in the middle of the next point and eventually lost the tie-break 7–5 .
9 I mean it may be that Ken has not drawn these up in the right way .
10 Joe 's task was to write these out in the forged handwriting of the deceased .
11 And you screw it all up in a single day .
12 Oh it was funny with Alison when I first saw her on when she was still a terrible state she let it all out in a great scream and I just let her talk and talk and talk
13 I thought this was marvellous , good for the lads , and got us all out in the open air .
14 But we might be experimental enough to spring people into other ideas , which is what it was all about in the first place .
15 We 've always believed that the market has to be regulated ; that 's what Disraeli and Peel were all about in the nineteenth century , ’ he said .
16 He showed what he is all about in the eighth inning of game five against the Cubs at Candlestick .
17 but they were right out in the open breakfast and all the meals out here .
18 This action is due back in the High Court in October .
19 Yeah , I mean we could we 'll do it cheap we could do it cheap and I could work that out in a private way .
20 Indeed , McCashin did not rule that out in a recent interview : ‘ We have a nice bit of business in Spain .
21 Microsoft previewed Hermes , Windows NT 's systems management scheme , which is due out in the second half of the year , at InterOp two or three weeks ago .
22 At the show , Progress also said it would release a DEC OSF/1 version of Progress for Alpha AXP systems , due out in the second quarter of this year .
23 He was 9-13 down in the third game this time , when he somehow slipped free .
24 He came back from 0-5 down in the third-set tiebreaker and reached match point at 6-5 with a fully-extended diving volley right out of the Becker Wimbledon highlight films .
25 He came back from 0-5 down in the third-set tie-breaker and reached match point at 6-5 with a fully-extended diving volley right out of the Becker Wimbledon highlight films .
26 He fell heavily when 4–1 down in the first set , needed several minutes of treatment before deciding to carry on , lost the first set , but then came back to win the next two — all the time nursing his knee with an ice-pack between games .
27 Also , Bourdieu 's presuppositions make it seem as if a rational way forward is more or less ruled out in the political field .
28 As for Newry , they are a much better side than last season , and they get credit for refusing to buckle after being reduced to ten men at 2–1 down in the 54th minute .
29 Great Britain went 2–1 up in the four-match Test series against the United States when they defeated them 8–3 at Old Dominian , Virginia , on Saturday .
30 STANTONDALE were two up in the first quarter of an hour through Graham Dodd and man of the match Paul Diamond before Carl Thomasson reduced the lead shortly before half-time .
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