Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |
| 2 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 3 | Alice sat down in a big chair at one end . |
| 4 | Faded now to dirty cream , and thrust down in a crumpled ball to the base of the chest — but still instantly known . |
| 5 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 6 | Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it . |
| 7 | Such an approach also clearly specifies operating procedures and mechanisms laid down in a formal manual for example . |
| 8 | They grew unofficially , here and there , interspersed with beech — which shed its leaves like autumn in the spring , willows , the ballerinas of the forest in a permanent static pirouette , their white seeds drifting down in a slow shower against the blue sky , and the tireless gorse , the popping of its seeds breaking the silence of high summer . |
| 9 | For it is the hydrogen bonding ability of the existing chain that determines the sequence of bases laid down in a growing chain of genetic material . |
| 10 | She was set down in a quiet side-street near the Madeleine . |
| 11 | Suddenly exasperated , Buddie raised his free hand and brought it down in a resounding slap on the boy 's buttocks . |
| 12 | Not only that , but he must have swallowed the large Garry Dog I had on the line , which must have floated down in an unrestricted way to him . ’ |
| 13 | With a second cup in my hand , I sat down in an upright chair opposite my hostess . |
| 14 | Drifting along in a straight line at a steady speed , or following the natural curves of space if you 're close to any heavy objects . |
| 15 | For too long , inflights coasted along in a crappy state for several reasons : first , the implicit assumption that if you wanted your duty-free goods sold on board then you took an ad in the mag ( so , if you 're making money anyway , why bother to make it good ? ) ; second , the mags did n't even have to compete for ad budgets with proper media , since duty-free is usually handled by a separate division with a separate ad spend ; and last , nobody cares if nobody reads it . |
| 16 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 17 | Alternatively the pie can be made well in advance and then warmed through in a moderate oven for 20 minutes , or microwaved on high for 5 minutes . |
| 18 | Geoff Wilson ( Tameside Normans ) won through in a tight finish on an icebound Bridgewater Canal around Broadheath . |
| 19 | For she had been so sure that , once he had turned the matter over in a cooler frame of mind , he would recognise and acknowledge her innocence . |
| 20 | Blown over in a freak gust outside the Metropole on 6 December 1940 ; car 50 was subsequently broken up . |
| 21 | They can be the ‘ power behind the throne– , using what power they have to its fullest potential : analysing situations , forming appropriate alliances and putting messages over in a palatable way to the right audience . |
| 22 | In order to provide ‘ permanent ’ help , many agencies operate a rota system with the carers working for a period of one or two weeks or a month , and then changing over in a planned way with another carer . |
| 23 | Moreover , many of the issues have spilled over in a marked renewal of interest in the state in the last twenty years . |
| 24 | The puissant alien walked crouched over in a permanent posture of attack so that the horns along its spine projected highest . |
| 25 | Nenad Bucin did not rescind his resignation , but in accordance with constitutional provisions Momir Bulatovic , the president of the Montenegrin presidency , took over in an acting capacity as Montenegro representative on the Collective State Presidency . |
| 26 | She received the watch and chain from the pawnbroker 's daughter , together with the new pawn ticket and fivepence , and went off in a pleasured state over the transaction , although a little worried that Queen Mary might find out that her naughty niece wanted to show her legs riding bareback on a circus horse . |
| 27 | The situation in the traditional poem , as exemplified by Sidney , is an I — She one , where the pronouns reveal the gap between the lover and his mistress ; in Donne , as I have shown elsewhere , l it is an I-Thou , and above all a We/Us/Our relationship , where the lovers exist , after the consummation , as a unit , a model to others , from which point Donne 's wit takes off in a brilliant sequence of rhetorical strategies . |
| 28 | They clambered down the cliff-path from Sea House and set off in a western direction along the beach to Badstoneleigh . |
| 29 | The acceleration is sensational and very similar to taking off in a piston-engined aircraft with open cockpit . |
| 30 | You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love … |