Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit . |
| 2 | The second failkure occurred in a 77 year old man who presented with severe secretary diarrhoea ( 15 motions per day ) , hypokalaemia , hyponatraemia , and prerenal failure . |
| 3 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 4 | My eyes snapped open and my mouth gaped in a soundless scream . |
| 5 | Three men are missing , presumed dead , after their boat sank in a severe gale within sight of the harbour at Padstow , Cornwall . |
| 6 | All day , his mind swam in a dreamy haze . |
| 7 | The wind rose in a rending sigh , filling the night with sound , and slowly sank again to quietness . |
| 8 | On all the evidence it is highly improbable that overvaluation was the dominant constraint ; particularly since import penetration occurred in a ratchet-like fashion . |
| 9 | She smoothed her finger along the muddy fur and the tiny mouth opened in a soundless miaow . |
| 10 | The double shooting happened in a public car park beside a Texas superstore in Cheltenham town centre in Gloucestershire in June . |
| 11 | Against such chilling prospects , Vologsky 's mind rebelled in a frenetic search for hope . |
| 12 | A large mug of tea vanished in a single gulp , then the man and woman moved out of sight towards the outer door in the kitchen 's lower corner . |
| 13 | Moores and ( inset ) with his wife Kathy , a former Miss England who later tragically drowned when his car landed in a muddy ditch and he forgot to tell rescuers that she was in it |
| 14 | An insipid winter light dribbled in a thin gruel from a small pane of glass set low in the wall just above the camp bed on which he sprawled . |
| 15 | The wind blew in a low hum , making the trees shift and rustle eerily as if there were shadows waiting in the darkness . |
| 16 | Repetitive stimulation of the sensory nerve resulted in a steady decrement in the motor neuron response ; it was , in effect , habituating , and the Kandel lab had produced what he was to describe as a single synapse which showed ‘ learning in a dish ’ . |
| 17 | There was no time common to all popular music , as myriad fragments of past , present , and future whirled in a mad dance . |
| 18 | The review resulted in an upward revision of the Sanga-Sanga field 's gross initial proved wet gas reserves by over 800 bcf to 12,460 bcf . |
| 19 | Over the period between 1872 and 1905 it is probable that increased facilities for reporting and prosecuting cattle theft resulted in a gradual increase in the proportion of crimes which were reported . |
| 20 | The boat drifted in a north-west semi-circle , covering at least 1,000 nautical miles , until hitting Great Barrier Island , north of Auckland , on 30 September . |
| 21 | He discovered that diffusing the transmitted light resulted in a dramatic increase in the resolution of such cryptic features . |
| 22 | In this chapter we have argued that emotion in drama is real , but that it is nevertheless a modified version of that same emotion felt in an actual event , for the emotional response in drama is a response to an abstraction . |
| 23 | The thin duvet lay in a crumpled heap on the floor . |
| 24 | A CHANGE of programme resulted in an audio-visual show by Edward Mallory of Guildford being presented at Alton Camera Club on Friday . |
| 25 | A lone horseman appeared in a vast landscape , a shot rang out in the badlands , dust rose from a wagon train . |
| 26 | ‘ Have some coffee , ’ the March Hare said in a friendly voice . |
| 27 | Timing of the airdrops was to be determined by the defence department in co-operation with the United Nations , the president said in a written statement . |
| 28 | Bonanza sat in a huge oak chair . |
| 29 | Fred was delighted and led her up to his bedroom where a truly magnificent blue and yellow parrot sat in a tall cage . |
| 30 | The reaction of Ukraine to the Russian parliamentary decision came in a Foreign Ministry statement , reported on May 25 , which said that " the status of the Crimea is an internal Ukrainian matter which can not be the subject of negotiations with another state " . |