Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I slept in a little damp attic room which smelt of apples , my head not very far away from the dream-troubled heads of Shelley and his mistress . |
| 2 | At 4 o'clock I posed in a flower-decked kiosk wearing Amy 's brand-new Marks and Spencer 's floral cotton and an awful lot of Elizabeth Arden 's Flawless Finish . |
| 3 | So she waited in a quiet part of the street until people began to stream out of church . |
| 4 | Nor do all who participate in a joint enterprise agree to its occurrence . |
| 5 | And when they were inside she said in a different voice , ‘ What is going on between you and that girl ? ’ |
| 6 | He started to move , slowly at first and then faster in response to her pleas , and then suddenly everything disintegrated in a wild starburst of colour and sensation that left her shaken and helpless in his arms . |
| 7 | No we 're going to erm Horsham for the Christmas party , the works Christmas party and erm , the hotel where Rob stopped at last time when he was down in Horsham , that 's where they 're doing Christmas party this year , so we obviously we staying in a double room |
| 8 | Anne and Chris did n't want to return full time to stressful teaching jobs when their maternity leave ended , so together they sent in a joint application for a full-time position with a covering letter pointing out the benefits of job sharing , and the way they could organize their week and their timetable . |
| 9 | So everybody put in a general key . |
| 10 | She did not say anything more so he added in a real voice and proper words , ‘ Delia , I have to . ’ |
| 11 | Like everyone else in this market , IBM is trying to make it easy for small sites to install so it comes in a wide variety of fixed configurations that encompass various Token Ring , Ethernet wide area network and SDLC attached devices . |
| 12 | This is , of course , just what happens in a real tree . |
| 13 | Nancy Stewart tells you exactly what to do in a life-threatening situation |
| 14 | Not even Europe 's governing body knows exactly what happened in a Russian League game involving Dinamo Moscow that earned him such a heavy punishment . |
| 15 | Edward paid the taxi driver in advance and all the way home she sat in a happy daze . |
| 16 | Later we assembled in a large room with the other recruits who had arrived from Cherbourg , Amiens and Rouen . |
| 17 | And again you would expect socialization and environmental factors to operate , and clearly they do in a trivial sense . |
| 18 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
| 19 | Later he responded in a similar way to D. H. Lawrence 's criticism , as well as to his creative achievement . |
| 20 | The horse does not remember logically what happened in a certain situation , but it remembers the associated emotion . |
| 21 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |
| 22 | Now she lives in a small flat in Ladbroke Grove , with a young woman she says is her niece . |
| 23 | Now he lived in a neat semi-detached on the outskirts of Bradford with his wife and three lovely kids , earning a comfortable , respectable living doing weddings , portraits , the odd news pic for the local paper . |
| 24 | Originally it stood in a small church in Via San Pietrò which has long since disappeared , and was christened the ‘ Man of Stone ’ when it was repositioned . |
| 25 | Here he leered in a conspiratorial fashion . |
| 26 | Eventually he said in a strange and distant voice , ‘ The sky was so … big … so daunting … and I was afraid . |
| 27 | Then I taught in a secondary modern in Hackney , before getting involved in the pioneering days of schools ' drama , touring happily doing plays in schools and inspiring them to do their own . ’ |
| 28 | The importers were n't reliable , and neither were the craftsmen , especially those who persuaded me to pay them in advance Then I got in a financial muddle because I did n't keep my bookkeeping up to date . ’ |
| 29 | Then somebody spoke in a strong New Zealand accent . |
| 30 | Doreen 's jaw sagged slightly , then she muttered in a sulky manner , ‘ I suppose so — ’ |