Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will grow into a shrubby bush 3′–4′ tall and looks equally beautiful grown alone or companionably in a border where it will flower away to your heart 's content . |
| 2 | Before she could even breathe his lips were on hers , fiercely and demandingly in a kiss that seemed to last forever . |
| 3 | An ally is a nation which you beat fair and square in a war some time ago and which is now on your side . |
| 4 | She did not dare look down , but she could feel the machine moving below her like a maddened metal beast prowling backwards and forwards in a pit , its metal jaws opening and closing , clanging and gnashing with thwarted fury . |
| 5 | It was too big , a great covered space where people strode backwards and forwards in a hurry . |
| 6 | Life , as far as the black novelist is concerned , if found paradoxically and exclusively in a police body bag . |
| 7 | Without them , as the White Paper ’ Custody , Care and Justice ’ says , ’ there can be no assurance that resources ’ — which means money , and I wish that people would say ’ money ’ rather than ’ resources ’ — ’ devoted to the prison service will be used effectively and efficiently in a way which fulfils the obligations of the prison service . ’ |
| 8 | " When they were out of a ship they were more or less in a state of intoxication , during which time they were in the society of the very lowest description that could be found . |
| 9 | As a master of the long line himself , Karajan would probably have endorsed some of Boult 's sentiments ( many of Karajan 's recordings have been put down more or less in a series of single takes ) , but he would also have agreed to an extent with Gould that ‘ good splices ’ can also ‘ build good lines ’ . |
| 10 | Cutting letter box slots in doors is a job most of us have to do once or twice in a decade . |
| 11 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 12 | This is best dealt with quickly and crudely in a book concerned with change . |
| 13 | We hear endlessly of Rodrigo taking various fortified cities and castles — only to lose them later and often in a matter of months . |
| 14 | The second response , that the difference consists solely and simply in a mode of knowledge of the external world , without invoking any internal and introspectible ‘ feel ’ , requires one to explain perceptual experiences with different modes of access without reference to a subjective component . |
| 15 | She was in some ways , a female Kenneth Williams , an eccentric who could emote facially and vocally in a way in which Ken had established himself the master . |
| 16 | ‘ The petition read , ‘ It is incumbent upon the council to prevent the crown falling to issue of the pretended wedlock between his late Majesty and the lady Elizabeth Woodville , made without the consent of the lords of the land , and by the sorcery of the said Elizabeth and her mother Jacquetta — as the voice is throughout the land — privily and secretly in a chamber , without proclamation by banns according to the laudable custom of the English church ; the said King Edward being married and troth-plight a long time before to one , Eleanor Butler , daughter to the old Earl of Shrewsbury ’ . ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes this happens spontaneously and regularly in a family without the need for extra organisation . |
| 18 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 19 | For many minutes , Ali , Asaad and Isaac plod back and forth in a chain through the snow . |
| 20 | A typical building of 10 storeys will sway back and forth in a period of 1 second , giving it a natural frequency of 1 cycle per second or 1 hertz . |
| 21 | We take our orders , issued here and there in a whisper . ’ |
| 22 | In the provision of public collective goods ‘ consumer preference ’ can only be expressed indirectly and imprecisely in a democracy through the relationship between bureau and legislative sponsor . |
| 23 | Any dissent or misunderstandings can be dealt with there and then in a battle fought on your ground , at your choice of time and to your agenda . |
| 24 | This returns again and again in a variety of contexts , but the theological heart of it is to be found in the development of a theology of the Church as a communion of ‘ churches ’ . |
| 25 | Her hair was heavily oiled , perfumed and washed again and again in a henna mixture . |
| 26 | The Member States shall support the Union 's external and security policy actively and unreservedly in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity . |