Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And he cited two papers , co-authored by Derek Bryce-Smith , professor of organic chemistry at the University of Reading , as being the result of ‘ individual scientists who have got rather carried away in a flush of enthusiasm . ’
2 The intrusiveness of attitudes like these is registered in Anne Bronte 's Agnes Grey ( 1847 ) , when the poor widow , Nancy Brown , feels badly caught out in a moment of negligence :
3 The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard .
4 Got some at home apparently tucked away in a piggy bank or something .
5 The real success formula became evident from the very beginning a mixture of good humour , innuendo , cliché , double-entendre all mixed together in a cauldron of what was plainly goodwill and a desire for a good time .
6 Karelius , about to agree , suddenly turned away in a fit of coughing .
7 I 'm not writing anything off because I 've had problems like this in the past which have suddenly turned round in a week .
8 For — contrary to the legend that it was all thought through in a day — this theory was worked out in three main stages over the next half year .
9 He was warmly wrapped up in a fur coat and had gloves on .
10 Simply expressed , the set-up as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , had all pulled apart in a way that called for change .
11 The opportunity presented by RMI is nicely summed up in a paper by Black , Dearden , Mayhew and Nichol ( 1989 ) in which they say ‘ Resource management enables clinicians and managers to see directly what the cost of various patterns of care are , to consider alternatives and make decisions in a more informed way — at the level of patient , the service or service mix .
12 His raving was suddenly choked off in a fit of agonised coughing by the stinging , acrid fumes of the gasoline which cascaded down over his head and shoulders , as Curtis upended the almost empty can and poured the dregs down over him .
13 Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot .
14 The next time they came Allen was already hidden up in a beech-tree above where they stood and Marian was far off wandering among her swine looking for flowers .
15 Now he could see the world ranging round him , as it were , free , exciting and full of possibilities , neither limited by the encircling arms of Jesus , nor somehow squared off in a kind of boxing ring , with Marx , Engels , Lenin and Hegel fierce at every corner , barring all the exits .
16 To be thus punished twice in a matter of some three weeks seemed grossly unjust .
17 Handlebar 's mate had meanwhile broken out in a kind of partridge death-wail .
18 Hence , such experiments are normally carried out in a laboratory permanently equipped with a wind-tunnel ( the name for any system providing a working air stream ) , a water flume or channel ( similar systems with water ) , or a towing tank ( a large tank of stationary water through which an obstacle can be moved ) .
19 A PENSIONER was killed and her husband critically injured yesterday in an explosion which ripped through the ground floor of their home .
20 On June 8 after an explosion on board the Norwegian supertanker , Mega Borg , 3,000,000 gallons of light crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico 90 km south-east of Galveston , Texas , but was largely burnt off in a fire which was not extinguished until June 15 .
21 As this was an art movement which America embraced with unprecedented enthusiasm and unrivalled breadth of vision , and as we specialise so much in American art objects ( we showed at the Modernism Fair in New York last year ) , the theme has provided a vehicle to address the famously discriminating audience of Grosvenor House with objects normally found only in a handful of the most forward looking museums .
22 ‘ And I do n't see how we could have just driven around in a circle .
23 This is generally taken up in a chorus of masculine approval : Yes , a fly on his shirt !
24 The bourgeois no longer lived either in a family economy of scarcity or in a rank of society remote from the temptations of high society .
25 And Anna Freud said , okay that 's what you called it , but supposing we had to look what you 've just described up in a dictionary , what word would be found ?
26 The second involves the juxtaposition of two consonants not usually placed together in an attempt to reproduce a sound peculiar to the original language ( e.g. , the " kh " sound in Bakhtiari or Bakhshaish ) ; the two consonants used in this way may vary , or one of them may be left out altogether .
27 Although it was amongst the women 's glossies as promised , it was still tucked away in a corner with only its spine showing .
28 The experience comes very close to being mistakenly caught up in a lawnmower .
29 The long hair she 'd admired was still drawn back in a pony-tail .
30 Her long black hair , which was always tied back in a knot at the nape of her neck , would spring constantly outwards in a curly disarray whenever she was suddenly excited .
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