Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a [adj] sweat " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to dream of playing at Valderrama again ( I 'm tired of waking up in a cold sweat ) . |
| 2 | I do n't know how or why it worked , but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat . |
| 3 | ‘ But they always end up the same — I see that terrible expression on Len 's face as he fell — then I hear the thud as he hits the floor — then I wake up in a cold sweat . |
| 4 | His palms were sweating , his forehead was wet and itching , he felt shivery , his voice was shaky and his heart was beating fast ; they were cooking , him with the Microwave Gun , bathing him in its evil radiations , heating him up so that he broke out in a lathering sweat and looked like a nervous kid . |
| 5 | The loading had made him break out in a terrible sweat and perspiration ran down his forehead into his eyes . |
| 6 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 7 | The thought of it brought him out in a cold sweat as he ran desperately on . |
| 8 | Although the very thought of court action had brought him out in a cold sweat , the same grittiness which had enabled his father to jump ship and seek a new life now came to his rescue . |
| 9 | For the slightest skirl of the pipes makes the retired cleaner go WEAK at the knees , break out in a cold SWEAT and SHAKE uncontrollably . |
| 10 | Finally , one look at the South Africans ' itinerary for the next six months — tests against Romania , Italy , then New Zealand , Australia , France and England — is enough to make you break out in a cold sweat . |
| 11 | But while a cruise across the Mediterranean with Clive Kemp had posed no problems at all , the very thought of being alone on a boat with Nathan Bryce for however long it took to sail two thousand miles brought her out in a cold sweat and turned her insides to jelly . |
| 12 | Now it has been decided that men , with all their brow-mopping and weeping , are simply invading the seminal female experience , which should really be carried out in a darkened sweat lodge with only women as company . |