Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 2 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 3 | Then there is that recipe for a sauce for lobster which I came across in a French dictionary of cooking of the 1830s . |
| 4 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
| 5 | ‘ But they always end up the same — I see that terrible expression on Len 's face as he fell — then I hear the thud as he hits the floor — then I wake up in a cold sweat . |
| 6 | ‘ I flew there in a rickety old aeroplane with standing room only . |
| 7 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 8 | You 're much too young to be thinking about boys , when I was your age I went around in a big friendly group , plenty of time for all that later on . |
| 9 | This week , I went out in a new , ankle-length skirt for the first time . |
| 10 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 11 | I grew up in a big way over there . ’ |
| 12 | I smiled back in a half-witted way that would have terrified a woman of less spirit . |
| 13 | Once I dressed up in a big , black shag wig , really tacky . |
| 14 | I suppose had I lived then in a Northern city , the sight would not have been remarkable . |
| 15 | For the first days , weeks even , I carried on in a light-headed and even giddy way . |
| 16 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 17 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 18 | For two or three days I stayed there in a commercial travellers ’ hotel . |
| 19 | I sing gaily in a loud Scottish accent . |
| 20 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 21 | But his interest in them came out in a unique way almost twenty years ago when he founded a shop that has become a fixture on Prince Street Untitled . |
| 22 | You do n't want them to grow up in a sterile environment . |
| 23 | ‘ Butterfield 8 ’ she read out in a clear , schoolmarm voice . |
| 24 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 25 | She sits squarely in a revolving chair , eyes unblinking . |
| 26 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 27 | ‘ Are you Mr Cuthbert of Green Gables ? ’ she asked excitedly in a high , sweet voice . |
| 28 | ‘ The worm ! ’ she shouted out in a hoarse voice that was still barely her own . |
| 29 | Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital . |
| 30 | Finally , one look at the South Africans ' itinerary for the next six months — tests against Romania , Italy , then New Zealand , Australia , France and England — is enough to make you break out in a cold sweat . |