Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 2 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 3 | As he stepped forward the chocolate hackles rose on the cat , its mouth drawn back in a snarl . |
| 4 | Their heads lowered to avoid the outstretched hand and pale features of a thin leather clad figure hunched over in a shop doorway . |
| 5 | The USC claimed by Jan. 1 to control large areas of the capital , with the President pinned down in a bunker at a military base south of Mogadishu airport ; later reports said he was confined to the presidential palace . |
| 6 | Black silk skirt maroon blouse her hair done up in a bun draped with gold jewellery oh talk about looking the part ! |
| 7 | He felt like a child caught out in a lie . |
| 8 | As the title suggests , this is the tragedy of Thomas Fox ; the narrative draws out the disintegration , physical and mental , of an innocent boy caught up in a world of inexplicable rules and inescapable brutality . |
| 9 | He turned on her a rueful expression — rueful but placating , like a boy caught out in a misdemeanour . |
| 10 | [ 2 ] During 1991 and 1992 , these initial recommendations were greatly revised and reorganised , largely as a result of work carried out in a number of small specialist work groups , set up following a detailed technical review meeting held in November 1991. [ 3 ] A second draft ( P2 ) began publication as a series of electronic fascicles in April 1992 , and is due for completion in July 1993 , following a further technical review in May , and presentation to the TEI 's Advisory Board in June . |
| 11 | The upper part of such buildings , where the entrance was above ground , was often used as a cold store , with ice preserved below in a kind of cellar , on a bed of straw which provided the necessary drainage . |
| 12 | Book-oriented homes lead to book-oriented children : a child brought up in a home where reading is encouraged as a major activity is more likely to read voraciously from an early age . |
| 13 | A girl brought up in a convent with the whole town knowing her circumstances could not be expected to feel any warmth towards the people who lived in splendour over in Westlands . |
| 14 | The actual configuration taken up in a solvent , in the liquid or in the solid , will , however , depend upon the sum total of all the interactions whether intrachain or interchain rather than upon the nearest neighbours only . |
| 15 | At the RSPCA 's Centenary Conference in Oxford , a tall slim woman with greying hair drawn back in a pony tail , unobtrusively dressed in a shirt and slacks , came to the podium . |
| 16 | One day there might be a bleary-eyed buzzard with his wing taped up in a splint , looking very sorry for himself ; the next there might be a baby sparrow basking under a red heat-lamp , recuperating from the attentions of a cat . |
| 17 | He was , perhaps , seven years old and had his money tied up in a corner of his handkerchief . |
| 18 | Wirral was portrayed as being a community in a state of shock caught up in a problem for which it had no explanations or obvious solution . |
| 19 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 20 | If an individual 's conduct is thought to justify it , dismissal could be without notice , but generally it should be carried out in accordance with the notice set out in a member of staff 's contract of employment . |
| 21 | Wrapped in a white towelling robe I was making my way back towards my room when I encountered a tall bearded man clad only in a towel . |
| 22 | In Now Voyager he played the family man caught up in a shipboard romance with a repressed spinster , Bette Davis , who has been prescribed a transatlantic cruise by her psychiatrist . |
| 23 | More and more old people will also have capital tied up in a house . |
| 24 | Then she replaced it and went over to see to Mrs Mitchell who lay on the top of the bed dressed only in a calico nightgown groaning as she writhed about . |
| 25 | Proust is also exceptionally aware I think of a , of the , the , the complex nature of reality , a reality built up in a number of layers , so that his sentences are made even longer than might otherwise have been the case , by the introduction of successive subordinate clauses , in which he seeks to qualify as precisely as possible what he is saying . |
| 26 | Where the injury is traumatic , such as a person being struck by a car or having a hand cut off in a machine , there is usually no difficulty . |
| 27 | BRAVE Aaron Solomon , seven , had his thumb ripped off in a farm accident and surgeons sewed it back on after it was packed in ice lollies by his uncle . |
| 28 | For instance , the basic activity in ( 2 ) is painting the general ; but the sentence tells us more specifically that it is an activity carried out in a way that envisages the general as seated . |
| 29 | In its ideal form this is observation carried out in an environment which may or may not be a natural one , but even if it is natural a situation has been deliberately created and is observed unbeknownst to the actors . |
| 30 | Raise from seed sown outside in a seed bed area in July/August . |