Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [art] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xanthe ambled in in a tousled yawning state and yesterday 's clothes and flopped into the empty chair beside Filmer . |
| 2 | Presently , as he sat by himself in a remote corner of the banqueting hall , he noticed on the wall beside him an ascending column of white ants ; as they reached the ceiling they spread their wings and slowly drifted down in a delicate living veil . |
| 3 | After 1772 the " turnpike mania " settled down in a long steady progress to an eventual 22,000-mile peak in 1836 , accelerated only in the widespread speculative investment booms of the early 1790s , 1809 – 12 and the mid 1820s . |
| 4 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 5 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 6 | So he made a cup of coffee ( realising , sensibly for once , that he 'd had enough alcohol ) , and sat down in the low upholstered chair with wooden arms that was one of the room 's few comforts . |
| 7 | It was the first time an Iraqi plane has been shot down in the southern no-fly zone , set up to prevent Saddam attacking the Shi'ites . |
| 8 | She sat down in the one comfortable chair ; it had come from their housekeeper 's room , and had found its way to Billy 's kitchen , like the strip of Turkey carpet with the hole in the middle . |
| 9 | However , the present author is one of those who has doubts as to how far this possibility would be used : the protocol on Social policy refers to continuing ‘ along the path laid down in the 1989 Social Charter ’ ( also signed by eleven Member States ) . |
| 10 | There is a big bundle of feathers called the incubator bird which lays its eggs six feet down in the hot black sand , and whose offspring emerge huge and fully feathered against the heat . |
| 11 | Fording these cool inches gave momentary pleasure but they were no sooner down in the hot stagnant air of the valley bottoms than they imagined the more open hill-top ahead must bring relief . |
| 12 | Down in the neat little kitchen Sophia made an omelette , cut thin bread and butter and arranged the quarters of a peeled orange on a crown Derby plate . |
| 13 | Yet , unable to refuse the implied reproach , Celia sat down in the antique rocking chair she had bought and allowed Miss Maynard to pass her the child . |
| 14 | Real growth of 3 per cent and an unemployment rate of 4.7 per cent were predicted , as were a reduction in the net budget deficit to 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , with a long-term aim of a reduction to 2.5 per cent by 1992 as laid down in the SPÖ-ÖVP joint programme of 1987 [ see p. 35088 ] . |
| 15 | The survey was based on the cleanliness grades laid down in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 16 | Despite this , receptionists are usually low down in the formal organisational structure . |
| 17 | Down in the old Arab quarter of Jaffa , the cosy streets of Roberts ' lithographs are all but gone . |
| 18 | He drives with the windows down , warm air streaming around him , swept along in a jewelled red river of tail-lights five lanes wide . |
| 19 | Following through in a single smooth action , Manville threw himself to the ground and rolled out of the doorway on to the sidewalk . |
| 20 | There are stirrings over in the lesser black-backed colony , the lighthouse monotonously flashes its warning signals , Pauline 's hot soup awaits you back at base — and you all agree : there is nothing quite like shear water ringing . |
| 21 | Her hair , snow white and abundant , had been topped off in a ragged uneven way by the home 's hairdresser . |
| 22 | The Marines had sent her off in a small wooden-bedded truck that seemed to have no springs or shock-absorbers whatsoever . |
| 23 | In the following year the Beaux-Arts style emerged at its most majestic in Washington , DC , containing some of the most powerful , overpowering indeed , spaces of any station , and set off in a great park-like setting . |
| 24 | We all wave goodbye to my father on the stoop as he is taken off in a little red car . |
| 25 | AT Escada , even the passing of the design mantle from the late Margaretha Ley to young Michael Stolzenburg has certainly not set the collection off in a dramatic new direction . |
| 26 | DUBLIN 'S Tommy Carr has been banned for six months following his sending off in the recent National League Football final against Donegal . |
| 27 | But London was for ever a sensitive place in the eyes of the English kings , watched with jealous eyes from the White Tower , built by William I at the south-east comer of its defences — and from further off in the great royal palace of Westminster . |
| 28 | ‘ Two Turkish teams have had three players sent off in the same European match . |
| 29 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 30 | Of course , in those days the mistress was generally kept by her lover , set up in a cosy little love-nest somewhere , her accounts settled with no questions asked … |