Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [vb pp] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artificial granules were collected by centrifugation ( 33,000 g ) , resuspended in and examined in a NMR tube containing a -benzene capillary . |
| 2 | I put the phone down and slumped in a chair . |
| 3 | He proved that all 17,000 verses could be minutely inscribed on a piece of parchment 10.8 in by 8.4 in , which could then be folded up and placed in a walnut shell . |
| 4 | With peeled veneer , a round log is heated in a steam pit for about twenty-four hours and then set up and rotated in a lathe in which a long knife peels the veneer circumferentially at a speed which is wonderful to watch . |
| 5 | Other mornings it had been rolled up and put in a plastic case within minutes of my getting out of it . |
| 6 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 7 | About 4lb of Semtex was discovered rolled up and primed in a prison lavatory . |
| 8 | Then Freddy got blown up and drowned in a shell crater , and all the time Margery was in a hotel two hundred miles away , putting Woolley to bed , dead drunk after a promotion . |
| 9 | ‘ The problem is that I learnt this trick whilst tied up and submerged in a barrel of water . |
| 10 | Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting . |
| 11 | He was in top form , witty and debonair , and the party continued until the next day when Modigliani , still in a happy mood , became so rowdy that he had to be thrown out and locked in a police cell all night . |
| 12 | of light and dark , measured out and wasted in a sieve . |
| 13 | nothing stops that race but the weather has put paid today to Gloucestershire 's big game … their match against Australia was washed out and abandoned in a draw … but the water has done us some good turns |