Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cupping his hand beneath Beth 's elbow , he looked deep into her eyes and said in a quieter voice , ‘ Do n't feel bad . |
| 2 | A helicopter flew low over their heads and turned in a tight circle . |
| 3 | Zhorik has also developed an interesting new style : huge sheets with paintings that recall Roy Lichenstein 's pictures but executed in a naïve , ethnic style that could be either Russian or New Guinean . |
| 4 | He jingled his car keys and said in a quieter voice : ‘ Has this anything to do with whether you keep this house or not ? ’ |
| 5 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |
| 6 | Last year he cracked in the mountains and came in a disappointed seventh . |
| 7 | Markby sat glowering at the gas fire which had dulled its bright flames and hissed in a soft insistent way . |
| 8 | The meat within was garnished with herbs and cooked in a rich onion sauce . |
| 9 | Originating summonses and equivalent documents will be served by an officer of the court , who may be the clerk to the court ( as in Switzerland ) , or an officer with specific functions including the service of process ( such as the ufficiale giudiziario in Italy ) , or in some countries such as France a huissier de justice , a process-server appointed by the State authorities but engaged in a professional capacity by the plaintiff . |
| 10 | She had difficulty attending to Mrs Browning 's questions and replied in a strained voice . |
| 11 | Many masters of the latter group were scarcely able to sign their names and behaved in a brutal fashion to their crews . |
| 12 | The donkey opened its hairy jaws and said in a braying voice : |
| 13 | A log fire burned in the hearth , there was a huge Persian rug on mellow oak-block flooring , three high-backed sofas , traditional two-seaters but covered in a soft paprika-coloured corduroy instead of the usual chintz . |
| 14 | He says we have watches that are meant to be divers ' watches but immersed in a small amount of water they fill up . |
| 15 | Not bad for the first day , she thought with a sense of satisfaction as she washed her hands and tucked in a few strands of escaping hair . |
| 16 | Izzie took hold of her father 's hands and spoke in a soft , monotonous sing-song . |
| 17 | An English team drawn from deaf football clubs in Newcastle , Leeds , Sheffield , Nottingham , Stoke and Manchester , accompanied by hundreds of supporters , made the trip to Glasgow ( eleven hours by train from Manchester ) , and the match was played in excellent weather conditions at Ibrox Park before about 3,000 spectators and resulted in a 3–3 draw . |
| 18 | The two would take low stances in the cages and stare out together on the world , separated by bars but joined in a common sympathy . |
| 19 | He crossed the corridor in two strides and sat in a small room that was used for counselling or small case conferences , leaving the door open and flipping impatiently through the file . |
| 20 | Eileen remembers Selina as a bubbly girl who helped to scrub the floors of the tourist office , made her own clothes and lived in a small cottage . |
| 21 | Payne cut his own tools from honeysuckle , acorns , vines and leaves and worked in a restrained manner on a red-brown calf impregnated with birch bark oil — a leather often known as ‘ russia ’ . |
| 22 | With considerable care he selected four , returned the others to his pockets , opened the chosen ones and sniffed in a discriminating fashion . |