Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Such an approach also clearly specifies operating procedures and mechanisms laid down in a formal manual for example . |
| 3 | We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales . |
| 4 | ‘ The worm ! ’ she shouted out in a hoarse voice that was still barely her own . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 8 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It nearly always came over in a bad light , as a bunch of cocooned scientists trying to hoodwink the common sense of ordinary folk . |
| 11 | They drove off in a grey transit van which was found abandoned soon after the raid . |
| 12 | The angry words dried up in a strangled gasp , though , as she found herself staring into the dark brown eyes of Julius Landor , her husband . |
| 13 | Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital . |
| 14 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 15 | She came back in a lively mood dressed in ruby velvet with her furs . |
| 16 | MODERN EXISTENTIALIST thriller played out in a ghoulish horror setting . |
| 17 | Summer 's approach spelt out in a breezy spin on Paisley . |
| 18 | Wine spilled out in a small pool , red and dark , like a bloodstain creeping out over the burnished timber . |
| 19 | He sighed heavily and his voice came out in a nervous croak . |
| 20 | But his interest in them came out in a unique way almost twenty years ago when he founded a shop that has become a fixture on Prince Street Untitled . |
| 21 | It came out in a hoarse whisper , ‘ It 's morning , nearly . ’ |
| 22 | Nathaniel Sherman jabbed a thumb against his own chest and his words came out in a fierce undertone . |
| 23 | It banked to avoid a clump of trees , righted itself , roared around in a tight circle , and headed hubwards leaving a trail of hot pork-fat droplets . |
| 24 | The abolition of capital punishment and reform of the law on homosexuality came about in a similar way . |
| 25 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 26 | The pair made off in a yellow car . |
| 27 | He sat looking at me , his mouth turned down in a bitter line . |
| 28 | He went on around the block , again and again , until a space opened up in a barely-lit alley and he slipped the car in ahead of a Mercedes driver who , to judge from how he leaned on the horn , was well along the way to a heart condition . |
| 29 | That morning , just after Sullivan had received a cable form Washington telling him to inform the new government that the United States would continue diplomatic relations with Iran , machine guns mounted on the surrounding buildings all opened up in a pre-arranged barrage . |
| 30 | All the things which I had feared turned up in a relentless progression . |