Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ Winnie the War Winner ’ was made from two 109-sets , parts from the plantation manager 's receiver collected by Bill Baldwin , and bits and bobs laid out in a contraption of wires and valves around a room 10 feet square ( 3m² ; ) . |
| 2 | Rules laid down in a statute would be less flexible . |
| 3 | It was exciting but the last match on the Saturday with Clark and James and Strange and Stewart taking five hours and 15 minutes to go round in a fourball was a joke . |
| 4 | Other teeth moved freely in a way that they had never moved before . |
| 5 | Now the words tumbled out in a rush . |
| 6 | Futures contracts are traded on a central regulated exchange by open outcry , whereby traders congregate periodically in a pit on the floor of the exchange to buy and sell contracts , with every negotiated price being heard by other traders . |
| 7 | Generous lips drew back in a smile to reveal small , pearl-like teeth . |
| 8 | Mrs Doran 's lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 9 | He touched his torn face and his lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 10 | New rules in s88 and Sch 8 Finance Act 1993 now restrict the usefulness of capital losses carried forward in a target company which is acquired by a capital gains tax group . |
| 11 | Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village . |
| 12 | I do n't think he conceived ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ as a concept album , but the songs slotted together in a way that it became a concept , and the way he presented it on stage , how he wanted to look , how the boy 's costumes looked ( facsimiles of his — though his were patterned and theirs were simple ) meant that he 'd breathe life into a concept hero . |
| 13 | The words came out in a rush and she felt her face flame . |
| 14 | The words came out in a rush . |
| 15 | The words came out in a rush , and with an infuriating blur of tears she thrust her wine glass into Anneliese 's hand , spun on her heel and walked swiftly away . |
| 16 | Caroline could almost see her building up her courage , and then her words came out in a rush . |
| 17 | Gilbert forced himself to become calm , drew a deep breath and then the words came out in a torrent . |
| 18 | His words came out in a stammer . |
| 19 | Even MTV has jumped on the bandwagon with The Real World , a show that chronicles the lives of seven kids rooming together in a SoHo loft . |
| 20 | From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot . |
| 22 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 23 | The dark eyes fired up in an instant . |
| 24 | Erica De'Ath , Teenagers Growing up in a Stepfamily |
| 25 | Her lips curved up in a smile . |
| 26 | Suddenly the words rushed out in a jumble of grievance and anger . |
| 27 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 28 | When the reader does not need to dwell upon decoding , then words encountered early in a sentence will not have been forgotten and will , therefore , be available for integration with the words at the end of the sentence . |
| 29 | His eyes blinked violently in a spasm that screwed up his face in rapid jerks . |
| 30 | Her words shot out in a clatter . |