Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , this 36-year-old officer was in desperation about the fate of their boyhood toys , locked up in a trunk in the attic at Leeborough . |
| 2 | TV star Terry Wogan landed up in a ditch in his posh Bentley after losing control on a bend . |
| 3 | Poor Harriet , laid out in a drawer in the morgue or being worked on even now by the undertaker to repair the more obvious signs of post-mortem investigation before friends and relatives viewed the body . |
| 4 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 5 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 6 | Between them they brought together in a hotel in Windsor the chairmen of sixty major companies in Britain and a crowd of bright , articulate members of the black community . |
| 7 | Kinnock grew up in a society in which it was natural to be Labour and which Labour controlled . |
| 8 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 9 | And while he watched , Firelight gave a great heave and a whole lot more of the little horse slid out , its neck and mane and withers and then its whole backside complete with tail , spilt out in a heap in the straw , ungainly legs in a pale tangle . |
| 10 | They were amazed and delighted to find on that isolated junction the tiniest pub they had ever encountered , tucked away in a bend in the empty road . |
| 11 | He went back into the church , sat down in a chair in front of a statue of the Virgin . |
| 12 | The Law Commission pointed out in a report in April that the use of computers has greatly facilitated the ability to plan and implement in one country a fraud that has its deleterious effect in another . |
| 13 | The shaking table is a 50-tonne concrete plate set horizontally in a hole in a concrete floor with several centimetres of play at the edges . |