Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 2 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 3 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 4 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 5 | In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy . |
| 6 | That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it . |
| 7 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |
| 8 | Her hips moved slowly to a beat in the music only she seemed to hear . |
| 9 | The additional diabatic cooling occurred predominantly through a decrease in solar absorption by ozone . |
| 10 | Scotland Yard said shots were fired at anti-terrorist squad detectives and a tactical firearms unit as they moved in on a house in Stoke Newington , north London . |
| 11 | Stage 4 is the familiar multiplier , only this time triggered off by a change in imports and exports . |
| 12 | It is rarely appreciated that in Bishop 's day , a Trifle was not a nursery pudding squashed anyhow into a common fruit bowl , but built up into a pyramid in an elegant stemmed glass compote dish . |
| 13 | ‘ Capitalist swine , ’ she murmured , and sank back into a sleep in which she tossed and stretched and he was sure muttered someone else 's name , but in the morning went with him to a garage and they actually bought a car , albeit second hand , and she let herself be dragged into a travel agency and they booked a holiday to Spain just like anyone else . |
| 14 | He got up and padded into the living room and peered out through a chink in the blackout curtains . |
| 15 | Some Obligation bounced back from a season in the doldrums with a five-length win at Hereford last month and is capable of following up . |
| 16 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 17 | His driving was a delight , and he moved smoothly to a century in four hours without offering a chance . |
| 18 | Of these compounds , special attention has been given to chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , especially CFCl 3 ( CFC 11 ) used mainly as a propellant in aerosol sprays , and CF 2 Cl 2 , ( CFC 12 ) used extensively as a cooling agent in refrigerators and air conditioners ( figure 6.2 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I have taken to colour like a new lover , ’ he pronounced unconvincingly over a cappuccino in the sparse urban palazzo that doubles as his office and town house . |
| 20 | Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across . |
| 21 | Abaft the after head is a large locker accessed either through a door in the head or from the cockpit . |
| 22 | But caught red-handed with a bomb in the glove compartment of the car she was driving , the mother-of-seven was on a mission to kill . |
| 23 | He joked briefly with a woman in a lilac cardigan at a desk . |
| 24 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have asked me to draw your attention to a satellite dish erected recently on a house in Station Lane . |
| 25 | She unearthed an ancient bicycle from some forgotten shed corner and proceeded to ride it from cottage to cottage , her sackful of letters stuffed compactly into a basket in the front . |
| 26 | ‘ I think he also came on as a substitute in a first team friendly against the New Zealand national team . |
| 27 | ‘ I think he also came on as a substitute in a first-team friendly against the New Zealand national team . |
| 28 | A dim light came on behind a blind in the Frankenstein mansion . |
| 29 | SOME years ago , the poets Hugh MacDiarmid and Basil Bunting dropped in to a bar in Moffat , Dumfriesshire . |
| 30 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |