Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 2 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 3 | He drove her back in a battered silver sports car . |
| 4 | Ralemberg insisted on meeting de Macon first , saying he wished to discuss some secret matter , so I joined them later in a small tavern on the corner of Vintry and La Reole . |
| 5 | She was concentrating with exaggerated passion upon her own blind , sensitive footsteps when her instep caught in some solid , clinging mass , and threw her forward in a clumsy , crippling stumble , from which she recovered strongly , and kept her balance . |
| 6 | Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room . |
| 7 | He heaved his snorting , raging mount out of the press of dismounted men , swung him round in a trampling circle to clear ground about him , and drew off to realign his vision and find a just opponent . |
| 8 | Her fingers began to move as she watched them almost in a hypnotised way . |
| 9 | When in the winter of 838 – 9 Louis the German rebelled openly , the emperor crushed him completely in a swift campaign , and sent him back to Bavaria . |
| 10 | Harvest onions and lay them out in a dry , sunny spot where then can finish ripening before being stored |
| 11 | The thought of it brought him out in a cold sweat as he ran desperately on . |
| 12 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 13 | Suddenly exasperated , Buddie raised his free hand and brought it down in a resounding slap on the boy 's buttocks . |
| 14 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 15 | She was careful not to disturb the make-up she had applied secretly before retiring , and checked it quickly in a polished bronze mirror that lay next to the bowl , the deep yellow glow from the oil lamp she had left burning providing her with just enough light to see that none had smudged . |
| 16 | He sketched her deftly in a few minutes . |
| 17 | We smuggled it across in a little plane from Blackpool . ’ |
| 18 | I recited the names of some relations and friends , and my mother wrote them down in a businesslike fashion until I ran out of ideas . |
| 19 | As Ice Cube Summed it up in a simple four-word news release : ‘ No justice … no peace ’ . |
| 20 | Alexander held them fast in a strong mailed fist . |
| 21 | However , when Franca found herself so suddenly , for two days and in such a new way , alone in the house , her vast restless self-awareness , her life energy , set her off in a fresh direction . |