Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [adv prt] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But this came out in a stumbling , heavy voice ; he still could hardly believe it all .
2 In their haste to dispose of the money some of it was burned and some ended up in a sewer .
3 Friday evening was spent mastering rhythm-changes on the piano and weaving cheerfully around the furniture in an Edinburgh tenement , and on Saturday and Sunday we all camped out in a School Dance Studio for movement sessions .
4 All yelped out in a voice that would wake the dead or summon up the devil from the deepest ring of hell .
5 Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers ; SunSoft president Ed Zander , a man with a tailor to kill for and the wardrobe to prove it , was quick to notice that McNealy was wearing a shirt with his initials on the cuff for the first time in his life — McNealy shot back that the ‘ SM ’ stood for ‘ Stop Microsoft . ’
6 Sun Microsystems Inc CEO Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers .
7 They all sat around in a circle agreeing what a swine Henry was .
8 Then they all sat down in a fashion so orderly that the files they formed were almost identical and equidistant .
9 ‘ Hark who 's talking , all wrapped up in a fur coat ; where 'd you get that from ? ’
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