Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in a [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away . |
| 2 | Wedding first , Pertwee 's wedding , and Hatton all got up in a topper with his tarty wife . |
| 3 | There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink ; they were scented with old makeup ( each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin . |
| 4 | She seemed harassed and shop-worn , her greying hair tied up in a bun with a twisted elastic band . |
| 5 | The penalty seemed harsh as Jones went down in a collision with John Lukic as they both raced for a 50-50 ball . |
| 6 | ‘ About 2 o'clock , when within about 4 miles of Green Island , for which we were tacking , Mr. Gould went off in a boat with the hope of reaching it before us , and of finding some penguin 's eggs which he is much in want off [ sic ] . |
| 7 | At the railway station in the centre of Yeravan , workers cleaned up after violence at the weekend ; six militants died here in a shootout with troops . |
| 8 | Jim leaned back in a tug-of-war with the long iron chain . |
| 9 | Oliver was in the end one , scrooged up in a corner with Murgatroyd on his lap . |
| 10 | Northam 's poet sat glumly in a corner with a plateful and a pint and watched with silent outrage , as was his way . |
| 11 | Northam 's elderly historian and honorary ideologue sat glumly in a corner with a plateful and a pint , and watched with silent outrage , as was his way . |
| 12 | All suitors he challenged to a race : the young man set out in a chariot with the girl , while the father sacrificed a ram on the altar of Zeus in the Altis . |