Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His quiet rage about the papers , and the idiots who paid good money for them , grew more intense as he began to grind away in a job as a research assistant at the Financial Times . |
| 2 | Unemployment , which fell from 9.3 per cent in 1989 to 8.8 per cent in 1990 , also began to increase again in a country still suffering from long-term unemployment and labour immobility . |
| 3 | One bomber , hit by fire from a German trawler went out of control and dropped a bomb among the landing craft , while the other bombers had to climb sharply in a stream of tracer to avoid the cliff behind the town . |
| 4 | Watching through the window , Lucy saw him make his way towards the wool shed , his strides long , as though he wished to get there in a hurry . |
| 5 | He attempted to stand inconspicuously in a corner but it was useless , for most of the villagers nudged one another and turned to stare in his direction . |
| 6 | I wanted to have my car with me if I wanted to get away in a hurry . |