Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished . |
| 2 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 3 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 4 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 5 | Three hundred feet the down rose vertically in a stretch of no more than six hundred — a precipitous wall , from the thin belt of trees at the foot to the ridge where the steep flattened out . |
| 6 | I followed his gesture over the buried walls , across the narrow roadway between the ploughed-out snow dunes to where the fell rose steeply in a sweep of broken white to join the leaden sky . |
| 7 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 8 | Halema handed the incense pot to one of the maids , and the women moved off in a wave of black veiling . |
| 9 | My eye swelled up in a matter of minutes , and I was unable to hear anything . |
| 10 | The pressure built up in a system as a result of the intake of water by osmosis . |
| 11 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 12 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 13 | But there it petered out in a welter of bloody , confused fighting . |
| 14 | Wycliffe walked the length of the waterfront to where the road petered out in a footpath to the headland . |
| 15 | Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result . |
| 16 | He wandered around in a state of utter dejection , belonging nowhere . |
| 17 | Our landing party found much evidence of recent occupation such as up-to-date papers and fresh food stocks , but no bodies , and wandered around in a kind of Marie Celeste situation for a while before finding a locked door . |
| 18 | The hawk dropped to the ground , rose again in a flurry of striped feathers . |
| 19 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 20 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 21 | Only two suffered injuries as the craft came down in a field at Pirbright , Surrey . |
| 22 | Manville flopped down in a chair without being asked . |
| 23 | We soon roared away in a cloud of dust , shoulder to ribcage with the largest man I have ever seen in my life . |
| 24 | As he spoke , the sideboard barring the entrance toppled over in a heap of shattered crockery and wood . |
| 25 | Haverford came home in a state of nervous excitement . |
| 26 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , just as we finished the boss came past in a hell of a state . |
| 28 | Then everything came back in a wave of anguish and she ducked her head under the water and made herself hold her eyes open until they smarted with pain . |
| 29 | It came back in a form against which there could be no defence . |
| 30 | I mean , I lashed out in a panic at the last moment . |