Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'd arranged with the local flying club to go up in a small ‘ Cub ’ training aircraft , which is well-suited for aerial photography as it has a very slow cruising speed . |
| 3 | This is not true of Cramlington , where the basic development programme laid down in the early 1960s has continued , with only two significant changes relating to the use of industrial land and the role of the shopping centre development . |
| 4 | Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation in the " long hot summers " of 1965–7 . |
| 5 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 6 | The most recent substantial piece of work on public library stock logistics is described in Tony Houghton 's Bookstock management in public libraries ( 1985 ) , again work based upon actual research carried out in a public library system . |
| 7 | According to the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University , less than 1 per cent of research carried out in the developed countries has any significance for the developing world , and half that research effort is devoted to military and related activities . |
| 8 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 9 | But referee Ed Morrison 's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge . |
| 10 | He sat looking at me , his mouth turned down in a bitter line . |
| 11 | These two distinct systems will feed upon each other through an ongoing confrontation acted out in the Middle East . |
| 12 | Despite his background , Henry switched codes and his talent shone through in the white SACU , which was fighting right wing politicians in a move towards multi-racial cricket . |
| 13 | The Duke was revelling in the occasion , his toothless mouth curved up in a great leer like the mask of comedy . |
| 14 | Against a background of rising tension between Aoun 's forces and those under the command of Gen. Lahud , as well as Samir Geaga 's Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia , military confrontation broke out in the Christian enclave of East Beirut in late January 1990 [ see pp. 37264-65 ] . |
| 15 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 16 | More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 . |
| 17 | The Old Trafford side lost out in a dramatic penalty shoot-out with Torpedo Moscow when Steve Bruce , Brian McClair and Gary Pallister all failed from the spot . |
| 18 | The Old Trafford side lost out in a dramatic penalty shoot-out with Torpedo Moscow when Steve Bruce , Brian McClair and Gary Pallister all failed from the spot . |
| 19 | " To bed , " she said decisively , " I 'll have some tea sent up in a little while . " |
| 20 | Although there is some experience of contracting in such services as catering and cleaning , the scale of the programme set out in the White Paper is of a different order . |
| 21 | The digger careered around in a big circle , so that when the two humans crawled out of the wreckage it was the first thing they saw . |
| 22 | But the effect of the policy , as the American Bar Association pointed out in a recent report , is that the country 's prisons are filled not only with drug-handlers but also with drug-takers , and can not cope with the numbers . |
| 23 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 24 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 25 | This in turn causes the protein to fold up in an incorrect way , which results in the haemoglobin molecules sticking to each other . |
| 26 | A low rumble of thunder made her skin break out in a fine rash of goosepimples , and Julius glanced at her sharply as he noticed them . |
| 27 | ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way . |
| 28 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 29 | The 112-bhp 1.6-litre engine lives on in the entry-level £10,298 Lantra GLSi . |
| 30 | Finally : ‘ The Commission shall be fully associated with the work carried out in the common foreign and security field ’ ( Article J.9 ) . |