Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The hawk dropped to the ground , rose again in a flurry of striped feathers . |
| 8 | We soon roared away in a cloud of dust , shoulder to ribcage with the largest man I have ever seen in my life . |
| 9 | Haverford came home in a state of nervous excitement . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , just as we finished the boss came past in a hell of a state . |
| 12 | Tait puckered his lips and nodded slowly in a gesture of admiration . |
| 13 | These were ( 1 ) vehicle ( saline ) given by intragastric instillation or subcutaneous infusion followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; ( 2 ) bFGF infused subcutaneously in a dose of 100 µg/kg/hour followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; ( 3 ) bFGF given by an intragastric route at a dose of 100 µg/kg followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen , ( 4 ) sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg by intragastric instillation ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen , ( 5 ) bFGF infused subcutaneously in a dose of 100 µg/kg/hour and sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg by intragastric instillation ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; and ( 6 ) intragastric bFGF ( 100 µg/ kg ) given in combination with sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen . |
| 14 | These were ( 1 ) vehicle ( saline ) given by intragastric instillation or subcutaneous infusion followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; ( 2 ) bFGF infused subcutaneously in a dose of 100 µg/kg/hour followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; ( 3 ) bFGF given by an intragastric route at a dose of 100 µg/kg followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen , ( 4 ) sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg by intragastric instillation ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen , ( 5 ) bFGF infused subcutaneously in a dose of 100 µg/kg/hour and sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg by intragastric instillation ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; and ( 6 ) intragastric bFGF ( 100 µg/ kg ) given in combination with sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen . |
| 15 | Though in the mid-850s Burgred , king of Mercia , and the West Saxon king , Aethelwulf , joined together in a campaign against the Welsh without any indication of the subordination of one to the other ( see below , p. 195 ) , the evidence as a whole suggests a West Saxon subjection to the Mercians in the mid-eighth century . |
| 16 | The water for washing had to be Pumped up from a well in the scullery every morning for half an hour before breakfast and the drinking water fetched daily in a bucket from a communal tap in the tiny village street . |
| 17 | Great shafts of white after-rain light poured down from the edges of the clouds and soon the sun shone alone in a patch of blue , a weakening autumn sun . |
| 18 | Looking at the report and using the present criteria for increase in pensions and these are the figures that I did n't produce but er they look pretty bleak as I said because what the pensions can expect next year will be eighty four P for single pensioners and one twenty eight in that area for a couple and then we had look at we have some concern of what happened yesterday in a statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who said he is going to extend V A T and also it has now been that instead of putting on half of it in nineteen ninety four he put the full pile at seventeen and a half percent in nineteen ninety four because what was being saved is that if he 's leave the other half to nineteen ninety five it 'll be round near the elections and er there could be some difficulty . |
| 19 | I nodded — and several thoughts arrived simultaneously in a rush on my mental doorstep . |
| 20 | No , not expressive any more , Guy acknowledged , as the candle flared briefly in a gust of air from the open window . |
| 21 | He had quite a cheerful blaze going by the time she came back , with an armful of twigs and berries which she arranged artistically in a vase on the table . |
| 22 | During the war of 1914–18 she was chairman of the American Women 's War Hospital in Paignton , and served personally in a hospital at Lancaster Gate . |
| 23 | Back and forth between its two summits , Points 265 and 295 , swayed the opposing forces , locked together in a crescendo of desperation that typified the worst of the months of ceaseless combat on the Left Bank . |
| 24 | The speech-writing team , locked away in a suite at the Imperial Hotel , are said to have made faster progress this year than at previous conferences , despite the need to do some hefty redrafting to echo the Chancellor 's assurances on the economy . |
| 25 | Of all the community services on offer , he had chosen the coastguards , which involved nights spent quietly in a hut on the cliff tops watching for shipping ; and the hardest part of all the trials he endured in the Navy was being marooned on a ship for months on end with no opportunity to be alone . |
| 26 | My recollection of what happened then is hazy , except that at some stage I went into spasm , with the two of us locked tight in a tangle of arms and legs . |
| 27 | It set in motion what we call a debris flow , a mixture of 50-ton boulders , rocks , sand and gravel bound together in a kind of slurry , which came rolling down the side canyon and dammed the river . |
| 28 | They offered him hot wine and canella , surrounded him and talked eagerly in a mixture of Russian , French and Yiddish . |
| 29 | Her sinuses were all gummed together in a lump between her eyes . |
| 30 | But then the clutch of girls with grease smeared lips , the frag hags , stumbled past in a burst of squeals at the sight of Gharr the golden . |