Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucker musters his etiquette and swallows it down in a loud cartoon gulp . |
| 2 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 3 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 4 | Deep down in a blue half light of the control room , American sailors huddle over their radar screens , plotting its progress towards Iraq . |
| 5 | Dawn handed her a syringe filled with heart stimulant and soon Sandy was settled down in a warm recovery cage . |
| 6 | Swinburn was knocked down in a late night incident in Newmarket a month ago — and rates himself lucky to be riding again at all . |
| 7 | spent head down in a stagnant wishing well , |
| 8 | Otherwise , if the wind is squally it may end up with the wrong wing down in a fierce cross wind . |
| 9 | The implications of being 4–0 down in an 11 match contest were telling , and despite a spirited display by Virginia Humphreys Davies in the opening contest on the second day , when she outlasted Lisa Albano to reduce the deficit , there was little anyone could do to delay the inevitable . |
| 10 | I do n't know but he would n't , he would n't have it cooked aboard there , my mother used to cook it for him and I 'd stagger down in an ordinary shopping basket , in two basins there 'd be vegetables in one and his pudding and gravy in the other and I used to take that down for him and he used to come ashore and he used to then go and have it . |
| 11 | they lost by six at Crewe … won by five against Colchester … and then went down in an eight goal bonanza last week … |
| 12 | I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court . |
| 13 | Do n't go along in a dirty T shirt and floppy gym shoes or try to over-impress or be antagonistic . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyone Can Make A Mistake ’ , featuring backing vocals from Tallulah Gosh 's Amelia Fletcher , shuffled along in a fine pop style but , for once , the reviews were very unflattering . |
| 15 | Michael Cash snapped Crusaders into the lead with a confidently struck close range drive high into the net in the 19th minute after Stephen Stewart had cruised through in a deadly wing raid . |
| 16 | His injured rear left leg wheeled over and over in a frantic bowling motion . |
| 17 | To my dismay , the whole entrance to Clonmacnoise had been concreted over in a multi-lane car park that was almost totally empty . |
| 18 | Ammunition , grenades , and demolition explosives went off in a deadly firework display . |
| 19 | His footballing skills were obviously allied to a questionable temperament , and in January 1985 Frank McAvennie lived up to his immense promise , becoming the first Scottish footballer to be sent off in a Premier league match for giving a ‘ V ’ sign to the opposing fans . |
| 20 | Before you know it , you 're freezing your boots off in a Siberian labour camp . |
| 21 | They drove off in a grey transit van which was found abandoned soon after the raid . |
| 22 | One boxing scribbler of the tabloid persuasion used to recite a Guardian intro which Keating dashed off in a Bavarian hotel room , while struggling to complete a long overdue script for children 's television : ‘ Tonight in Munich , Muhammad Ali of The Universe will defend his world heavyweight title against Richard Dunn of 23 Railway Cuttings , Bradford , West Yorkshire . ’ |
| 23 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 24 | CURL up in a cosy country cottage in one of Britain 's beauty spots and you could be helping preserve the nation 's heritage . |
| 25 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 26 | This simply means that instead of bending and scuffling around for saucepans stacked up in a dark base unit , try hanging them from hooks near the sink ( where you are going to fill them with water ) or near the stove . |
| 27 | The Council could end up in a net loss position as currently there is a non-alignment of EC Development programme priorities and Regional Council capital spending priorities . |
| 28 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 29 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 30 | The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description . |