Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
| 2 | Pedalling home , I used to play a game — that with every light I saw on in a house , I would get £1,000 a year . |
| 3 | Increasing the amount of interview you get through in a day ? |
| 4 | She remained miserably at Little Gidding after Nicholas 's death , but finally , when John died , she hysterically demanded to leave for London immediately after the funeral ; without waiting for the weekly coach she departed uncomfortably in a countryman 's wagon . |
| 5 | Morag and Mary were two such women and we never ceased to wonder at the amount of work they got through in a day . |
| 6 | Floridian sandwiches , on the other hand , filled up an entire tray and if there was any bread it lurked deep in a jungle of cress and lettuce . |
| 7 | In its humped posture it runs along in a zigzag path , quivering its wings and stopping every so often to make sure that it is being followed . |
| 8 | He dug deep into his jacket pocket , the grin fixed on his face and his bloodshot eyes regarding Beth with interest ; at length he drew a mangled envelope from his pocket and , flourishing it grandly , explained , ‘ This ‘ ere 's from a lad we come across in a foreign port . ’ |
| 9 | Her eldest son still has the job he had then in an electronics factory 300 miles away ; her daughter , who was a giggly schoolgirl 15 years ago , is now the mother of three boys ; and her youngest son is now also married and works the family 's half acre of land with his father . |
| 10 | For the rest of his duty period he walked around in a daze . |
| 11 | When a Masai owned up to cattle raiding and invited punishment he did so in a spirit , not of insolent defiance , but of self-respect . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If I 'm going to a meeting where I know I 'm going to be the only woman I put my war paint on , if I 'm just going to be in the office all day I slob around in a skirt and a jumper with very little make up . |
| 14 | But , a marvellous thing happened whilst the trial is going on do n't forget , it 's in the dead of night and whilst the trial is going on there is Pilate 's wife at home in bed sleeping , and she has a dream , and seemed as though God spoke to her , and she saw and recognized the awful deed that her husband was about to commit , so she sent an urgent message to him that is , you 've got it in ve ve verse nineteen have nothing to do with that righteousness man for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of him . |
| 15 | The next day they lay up in a cave and managed to distil a small quantity of water which tasted vile . |
| 16 | Where the septum meets the body wall it does so in a smooth curve . |
| 17 | Next day he broke out in a savage rash , but the move began to Alderney and the last , comfortable , well-solaced years . |
| 18 | And er we had a wooden shed it blew down in a gale so my Nana , she bought us a shed |
| 19 | But when he is called to perform later on that night he curls up in a limp ball and refuses to move . |
| 20 | Sometimes in the night he cried out in a hoarse voice and moaned as if struggling to escape the grip of a bad dream . |
| 21 | You 're much too young to be thinking about boys , when I was your age I went around in a big friendly group , plenty of time for all that later on . |
| 22 | In his opening game he scored twice in a 6–2 victory over Manchester United and continued to score with astounding regularity throughout the season . |
| 23 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 24 | The mainspring of his actions as archbishop he spelled out in a letter to the king in 1281 : all Christian rulers derived their authority from , and were subordinate to , ecclesiastical law , to which kings , by virtue of their great dignity , were bound in a degree exceeding that of any other layman . |
| 25 | For a time they trudged on in a silence punctuated by occasional reminiscences of the film . |
| 26 | Half way through his super-human effort his foot slipped and in mid-launch he came down in an uncoordinated heap just outside the throwing circle . |