Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were brought in shiploads and bundled away in an institution which a Swiss newspaper recently called ‘ an antechamber of death ’ and a British journal ‘ a modern entrance to Hades ’ . |
| 7 | Tait puckered his lips and nodded slowly in a gesture of admiration . |
| 8 | We were turned , lifted , pushed , lowered , pressed and turned again in a direction that could n't be guessed , only feared . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Who took a spin at 100 mph and walked away in a daze ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These were removed from the nest and hatched indoors in an incubator . |
| 14 | They offered him hot wine and canella , surrounded him and talked eagerly in a mixture of Russian , French and Yiddish . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As he came out of the lavatory , Ian slammed the bathroom door behind him and went past in a wave of Old Spice . |
| 17 | Blindly , Alan ran to his room , where he beat and punched his bed and cried aloud in a rage like a child . |
| 18 | The ‘ pig-faced lady ’ was often exhibited at fairs , represented by a bear wearing bonnet and gown , with its head shaved , and pinioned upright in a chair . |
| 19 | Anne hung back , but got past in a minute or so . |
| 20 | It was recognised that what would be most welcomed by policymakers and others was a service that not only helped to keep people out of institutions if that was their wish , but did so in a way that was both acceptable to recipients and less expensive than alternative institutional care . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the system also came under attack as being unfair — hence undermining consent by calling into doubt the legitimacy of both the mode of election and the government produced by it — and for facilitating the adversary relationship between the parties , a relationship that significantly influenced public policy , but did so in a manner harmful to the interests of the country . |
| 22 | Others ran discreet private companies , but prospered mightily in a climate created by deregulation and a curbing of what many perceived as excessive union power . |