Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in a [adj] [noun] " 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 | After his death his " rock band " disappeared and was last seen , rumour says , broken and tumbled together in an old wash-house . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The four of them — Simenon , Denyse ( re-named Denise ) , Tigy and Boule — lived together in an exhausting menage a quatre until Denise became pregnant and Simenon demanded a divorce . |
| 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 | His later years were devoted largely to charitable work , to which he contributed much in an unostentatious manner . |
| 10 | Luke 's eyebrows drew together in a thunderous bar . |
| 11 | Her brows drew together in a formidable frown . |
| 12 | His brows drew together in a sudden spasm of irritation . |
| 13 | All manometry tracings and radionucleide transit curves were coded and analysed together in a blinded fashion after the study was closed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His chin rose quickly in a proud gesture and George 's heart warmed to him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For a second the shell lay with a smoking fuse amidst the wreckage of the wheel , then it crashed apart in a deafening explosion . |
| 19 | One small corpse found recently in a fashionable district bore the warning : ‘ I kill all those who do n't go to school . ’ |
| 20 | Her voice tailed away in a little shrug of the shoulders that was like a shudder . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Tyrone Evans had been brought into the court 's car park when he overpowered his guard and got away in a blue Renault . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In September 1946 , for example , parliamentarians from several countries came together in an International Committee for the Study of European Questions , which published a report in favour of union . |
| 26 | An old man , flab hoisted by plastiskin into the semblance of youthful buttocks and belly , strolled past in a scanty g-string but the game was given away by the static pads of fake muscle that did n't even twitch as he walked . |
| 27 | A plump monk named Bertie showed Melinda and me round the monastery while the pilgrims ate noisily in a fly-ridden refectory . |
| 28 | The Light twins , Chris Rodwell and Carl Barrett played well in a stalwart defence . |
| 29 | It was essential that the candidate 's appearances were carefully staged so that he came across in a favourable light before the television cameras . |
| 30 | Then there is that recipe for a sauce for lobster which I came across in a French dictionary of cooking of the 1830s . |