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

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1 Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side .
2 It was n't just the sustained rumbling growls rising to a frenzy as two dogs threatened each other then lunged together in a bitter embrace , each asserting its place in the hierarchy , the priority of its rights over the red bitch .
3 For it is the hydrogen bonding ability of the existing chain that determines the sequence of bases laid down in a growing chain of genetic material .
4 Such an approach also clearly specifies operating procedures and mechanisms laid down in a formal manual for example .
5 I had , for the previous fifteen years , enjoyed the privilege of living in a Christian community where the charismatic question had been a lively issue , and where ‘ charismatic ’ and ‘ non-charismatic ’ ordinands lived together in a high degree of mutual trust and love .
6 Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’
7 Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 .
8 Tamo ash is apparently a very rare , highly figured wood found only in a small region of Japan .
9 Luke 's eyebrows drew together in a thunderous bar .
10 Her brows drew together in a formidable frown .
11 His brows drew together in a sudden spasm of irritation .
12 All manometry tracings and radionucleide transit curves were coded and analysed together in a blinded fashion after the study was closed .
13 Jinkwa had left the command vehicle under the control of the Environments Officer and ventured forth in a scouting party with two of his troopers .
14 His chin rose quickly in a proud gesture and George 's heart warmed to him .
15 We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales .
16 ‘ The worm ! ’ she shouted out in a hoarse voice that was still barely her own .
17 On the final tumultuous day , foreign visitors began arriving : two English girls , daughters of country parsons , who had hitch-hiked round the world and about ten Japanese tourists who moved cautiously in a close-packed pod bristling with lenses .
18 Again and again the nightmare rose into his mind like bile into the mouth ; he threshed about in a desperate attempt to shut it out , but again and again he suffered the humiliation , the panic , the pain .
19 Norwich did have other chances , top scorer Mark Robins seeing a superb volley ruled out for offside — but most of those came towards the end of the game as desperate Oldham charged forward in a vain attempt to gain a point .
20 For a second the shell lay with a smoking fuse amidst the wreckage of the wheel , then it crashed apart in a deafening explosion .
21 One small corpse found recently in a fashionable district bore the warning : ‘ I kill all those who do n't go to school . ’
22 Her voice tailed away in a little shrug of the shoulders that was like a shudder .
23 Police at Ames , Iowa , are looking for a one-legged burglar who stole a three-legged Labrador dog from an electrical contracting business and got away in a stolen pick-up truck .
24 England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills .
25 Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea .
26 We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees .
27 During the Permian period , about 280 million years ago , and until the start of the Mesozoic era , the continents came together in a single mass .
28 The painter 's eye , the poet 's search for meaning , and the social anthropologist 's interest in the everyday came together in a unique film style which built overall impressions from the juxtaposition of detail .
29 For too long , inflights coasted along in a crappy state for several reasons : first , the implicit assumption that if you wanted your duty-free goods sold on board then you took an ad in the mag ( so , if you 're making money anyway , why bother to make it good ? ) ; second , the mags did n't even have to compete for ad budgets with proper media , since duty-free is usually handled by a separate division with a separate ad spend ; and last , nobody cares if nobody reads it .
30 It nearly always came over in a bad light , as a bunch of cocooned scientists trying to hoodwink the common sense of ordinary folk .
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