Example sentences of "[adv] in a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Harry ! ’ she said suddenly in a child 's wail of reproach , and fell on her knees by him , flinging her arms round him . |
| 2 | A row was all in a day 's work for her , and at the end she 'd feel pleased with herself and at peace with the world . |
| 3 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |
| 4 | For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key . |
| 5 | And here it is : I have proof that Neil Kinnock once spent a night of passion alone in a miner 's cottage with a well-known writer . |
| 6 | Erm and come back to you , perhaps in a week 's time and you talk me through those recommendations . |
| 7 | Les Petits Riens survives only in a copyist 's score , making the identification of Mozart 's contribution problematic . |
| 8 | A much easier alternative is to come here on a summer bank holiday weekend , join the queue and be winched down in a bosun 's chair courtesy of various caving clubs . |
| 9 | But not for long , for they make another pledge by tying themselves together in a cat 's cradle . |
| 10 | Writing is n't usually a social activity , except when you 're working on exercises together in a writers ' group — and even then you 'll find that you do most of your writing alone , in whatever space and time you can carve out for yourself . |
| 11 | The sheep wisely leave it alone and most bugs do , too , for it contains two chemicals which , when mixed together in a creature 's stomach , make cyanide . |
| 12 | Suddenly he is more relaxed and confident and those horrible little worms of self-doubt which are perpetually burrowing away in a golfer 's head are banished for a few holes , anyway . |
| 13 | Yes , and she could tell a few tales as well , not that wild horses would drag them from me , not in a gnat 's eyeblink they would n't . ’ |
| 14 | It is not in a plant 's interest to provide copious and unlimited supplies of nectar . |
| 15 | Variety thought that the ‘ fact that so many of these gags depend on ill-concealed misogyny soon stifles the laughs that flowed more easily in a pre-women 's liberation era . |
| 16 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 17 | But after flagging down passing motorists , Mrs Fenton drove off in a friend 's car . |
| 18 | After stripping off in a Levi 's ad and Thelma & Louise , Brad Pitt has been hailed as the new James Dean , a sex symbol for the Nineties . |
| 19 | Getting older may be ‘ less profoundly wounding for a man ’ , because throughout life being physically attractive counts more in a woman 's life than in a man 's , and for women especially beauty is identified with youthfulness . |
| 20 | One feels that anything to do with card indexes is more in a woman 's line . ’ |
| 21 | The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools . |
| 22 | So very early in a horse 's life it establishes eating habits , and the horse may be very reluctant to change these habits when it is mature . |
| 23 | Early in a baby 's development she perceives her body and the external world as an undifferentiated unity ; the baby can not distinguish herself as subject from external ( objective ) reality . |
| 24 | It has forged an adventurous contemporary acquisitions policy which it intends to build on , purchasing works early in an artist 's career before prices fall outside the scope of the gallery 's low acquisitions budget which remains frozen despite the Council 's largesse . |
| 25 | Third , ‘ theories that attach moral significance to difference ’ : these approaches regard inequality as morally important , whenever in a person 's life it occurs . |
| 26 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 27 | Whinges about the black market for centre-court tickets are as much a part of the Wimbledon tennis championships as thunderstorms are — but this year 's new rules mean that any tout reselling tickets at Wimbledon next month could end up in a magistrate 's court . |
| 28 | So she said I 'm coming up in a fortnight 's time the fourteenth cos it 's David 's birthday that week |
| 29 | In other words , the dying mouse is the one most likely to end up in a cat 's stomach . |
| 30 | One sequence , filmed in Maidenhead , showed Crawford , dressed up in a fireman 's uniform , peddling furiously on a bike in an attempt to catch up with the engine . |