Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 2 | Dropped , discarded or duffed up in a temper — who knows ? |
| 3 | We used this door when a ghost came on or went off in a cloud of smoke . |
| 4 | It can be torn up and stuffed into awkward shapes ; cut to size and layered ; and used on the horizontal or held vertically in a grid . |
| 5 | Providers will be able to offer these HN Units as part of an HNC or HND course , as free standing units or grouped together in a way that will meet a particular local or individual need . |
| 6 | But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town . |
| 7 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 8 | He knew they would be hurrying behind him , might even have heard his running steps on the path or noted , practised woodsmen as they were , the scatter of wood-pigeons that went up in a flurry ahead of him . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never seen that spelled out in a women 's magazine story , or a film , or … a novel . ’ |
| 10 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 11 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 12 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 13 | When she had chosen the least remarkable and staggered downstairs in a pair of high-heeled purple boots the others got their revenge by wheezing about the room in hysterics once more . |
| 14 | Our landing party found much evidence of recent occupation such as up-to-date papers and fresh food stocks , but no bodies , and wandered around in a kind of Marie Celeste situation for a while before finding a locked door . |
| 15 | Endill left the library and wandered about in a daze . |
| 16 | Still dazed , Mrs Lomax put the car into gear and drove slowly in a semi-circle , back to the rough track that led away from the Monument . |
| 17 | Jerkily she rose en pointe on one wooden leg and twisted round in a pirouette . |
| 18 | He duelled briefly with the Triplane , lost it , and came round in a wide , searching turn . |
| 19 | He let the towel drop and dug around in a drawer for some underwear . |
| 20 | Tait puckered his lips and nodded slowly in a gesture of admiration . |
| 21 | We were turned , lifted , pushed , lowered , pressed and turned again in a direction that could n't be guessed , only feared . |
| 22 | I cancelled the afternoon 's lessons and returned home in a daze , cursing the Allies and hoping that they would be better behaved if they ever came to liberate us . |
| 23 | A cross-bred boar was reared and fed indoors in a pen , under identical conditions to a domestic pig , and the meats from the two carcasses tasted exactly the same . |
| 24 | Who took a spin at 100 mph and walked away in a daze ? |
| 25 | During the war of 1914–18 she was chairman of the American Women 's War Hospital in Paignton , and served personally in a hospital at Lancaster Gate . |
| 26 | Other nomes came running across the quarry floor , with Nisodemus in the lead , and piled up in a crowd around the gate . |
| 27 | They offered him hot wine and canella , surrounded him and talked eagerly in a mixture of Russian , French and Yiddish . |
| 28 | In such a case , the auditors ' report referred to in s 248 would be better separated from the main audit report and included instead in a note which explained that , although it was entitled to the exemption , the company was not taking advantage of it . |
| 29 | ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat . |
| 30 | Injured Kevin Mc Alynne , 30 , said : ‘ I felt 10 or 15 kicks and curled up in a ball . |