Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another voice , another man 's voice rose louder in agony from the dreadful screaming and echoed plainly in the reception area . |
| 2 | She managed , just , to stifle a tart response as a young woman came into the consulting-room and sat carefully in the chair . |
| 3 | So the bit was taken out of his mouth and put back in the proper place , and Wendy continued to calmly trot him around with the other horses ; and Huckleberry kept putting his tongue over the bit again , and again , and again . |
| 4 | A gambler by instinct , Chéron listened to the gossip and hung about in the artists ' cafés . |
| 5 | They got back in the car and drove away in the glittering traffic . |
| 6 | He gave my passport to the Corporal who put it into his pocket , then we got into the car and drove off in the direction of Lille . |
| 7 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 8 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 9 | This gradually lessened through the spring and disappeared completely in the summer . |
| 10 | In this move power was taken away from the people as participants in the ritual and invested totally in the god . |
| 11 | Many Elves did return but others , such as those in Athel Loren , refused to abandon their adopted homeland and stayed on in the Old World . |
| 12 | He was irritated by my disbelief and pointed forcefully in the same direction as before , shouting , ‘ Reggane ! ’ |
| 13 | Mary was the only one of them , as far as he knew , who had ever walked to the village and walked about in the village when she got there . |
| 14 | It hit the green and finished down in the rough with the flag just over a little rise ( he was down in Duncan 's Hollow ) . |
| 15 | Using paint from the Crown Expressions range , the wall in the foreground and the shutters are in Carmolito F3–80 emulsion , the tongue and grooving and the fireplace is in Caribou K2–100 eggshell , whilst Ponderosa Pine has been used on the wall in the backroom and picked out in the berry stencil . |
| 16 | Likewise the increased accountability of heads to governors , created by the 1986 Education Act and expanded again in the Reform Act , means not only extra work but extra tensions both for the heads themselves and for their staffs . |
| 17 | Uncle Wafter heaved a sigh and slumped back in the chair , his hand covering his eyes . |
| 18 | Gaselee had always regarded Party Politics as a Grand National type and decided early in the season to set the gelding , who stands more than 18 hands , for steeplechasing 's biggest prize . |
| 19 | William Francis Wilson , 21 , of Springwell Lane , Northallerton , was convicted of three charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm , jointly taking fish from private waters and fishing in private waters without a licence , fined £300 plus £155 costs , £740 compensation and bound over in the sum of £100 . |
| 20 | If you have a grievance relating to your employment , please refer to the procedure agreed by the Council and set out in the document attached to this statement of particulars . |
| 21 | He raised his eyes from the paperwork on his desk and leant back in the chair , a lazy grin on his face . |
| 22 | I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair . |
| 23 | She climbed onto the bike and set off in the direction from which she had come , gathering speed as she descended . |
| 24 | Piers wiped his mouth with the napkin and relaxed back in the chair , surveying her through dark , thick lashes . |
| 25 | A more stylish and dramatic return to English tradition came about through the Arts and Crafts Movement , which stood for integrity and truthfulness and believed whole-heartedly in the use of local craftsmen and materials . |
| 26 | Back in January Dallas performed what started off as the demolition and ended up in the annihilation of the Bills ' hopes of making it third time lucky at Superbowl . |
| 27 | Mama wrapped the baby in a big blue flannel blanket and sat down in the kitchen armchair to nurse . |
| 28 | The patient 's normal temperature range is established following admission and checked regularly in the early post-operative period . |
| 29 | She followed him into the kitchen and sat down in the chair offered to her . |
| 30 | He taught at a London prep-school and socialised enthusiastically in the area of Chelsea Barracks . ’ |