Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 2 | Dropped , discarded or duffed up in a temper — who knows ? |
| 3 | After a time , all knew that the concourse was not going to turn sour or break up in a fight . |
| 4 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |
| 5 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 6 | as for trade , it will be encouraged by it every way ; for carriage of all kind of heavy goods will be much easier , the waggoners will either perform in less time , or draw heavier loads , or the same load with fewer horses ; the pack-horses will carry heavier burthens , or travel further in a day … all which will tend to lessen the rate of carriage , and so bring goods cheaper to market . |
| 7 | We used this door when a ghost came on or went off in a cloud of smoke . |
| 8 | or fixed perpetually in a frame … |
| 9 | You need to be ‘ with it ’ , because you can never guarantee that you wo n't have a launch failure or end up in a field instead of back where you started . |
| 10 | Visits to hotels or theatres , going on holiday or to restaurants are all difficult things to do on one 's own , and if they are undertaken , people may have to pay more or end up in a corner , marginalized and away from the main clientèle . |
| 11 | we were close when I was in Washington , and whichever way you slice it he wo n't want my brother being buggered or beaten up in a New York jail . ’ |
| 12 | If a man believes in a different god , or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god , blind faith can decree that he should die — on the cross , at the stake , skewered on a Crusader 's sword , shot in a Beirut street , or blown up in a bar in Belfast . |
| 13 | It can be torn up and stuffed into awkward shapes ; cut to size and layered ; and used on the horizontal or held vertically in a grid . |
| 14 | Providers will be able to offer these HN Units as part of an HNC or HND course , as free standing units or grouped together in a way that will meet a particular local or individual need . |
| 15 | Instead he learned that life is not a choice between murdering your way to the throne or slopping back in a sty ; that there are swinish kings and regal hogs ; that the king may envy the pig ; and that the possibilities of the not-life will always change tormentingly to fit the particular embarrassments of the lived life . |
| 16 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |
| 17 | Life becomes crazy when I 'm recording Birds Of A Feather so I tend to organise working lunches and sit down in a restaurant to get my fuel . |
| 18 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 19 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 20 | Recruited for a tricky mission , he pinions a German plane under his own , crashes into a dam , floods a German base and goes out in a blaze of glory , having saved the British fleet from likely destruction . |
| 21 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 22 | You will need the ability to initiate and carry out original research and to work effectively in a team . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | report and summarise effectively in a range of contexts ; |
| 25 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 26 | and fly off in a shower , airily |
| 27 | The victims , many of them homeless , were blinded and torn apart in a frenzy of violence . |
| 28 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 29 | ‘ Office girls were screaming uncontrollably and walking about in a daze with blood pouring from them , ’ said witness Helen Millican . |
| 30 | Put cleaners and bleach together in a cupboard with a child safety catch . |