Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 2 | I mean , he 's respected me in a queer way . |
| 3 | Israel knew beyond a shadow of doubt that there was one God , the Creator of the whole world , who had disclosed himself in a special way to their nation . |
| 4 | Steve Platt seems to have caught himself in a dialectical contradiction ( ‘ Not paying , not voting ’ , 8 May ) . |
| 5 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 6 | His father , Philip Henry Thomas , had distinguished himself in a Civil Service Examination ( Executive Branch ) and had been posted to a staff clerkship for light railways and tramways at the Board of Trade . |
| 7 | He had positioned himself in a narrow doorway , in the vain hope it would provide him with some shelter from the biting cold . |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't seen you in a long time . ’ |
| 9 | I have n't seen you in a long time . |
| 10 | The tight one will I 've never seen you in a tight dress though , you do n't let me see so I |
| 11 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |
| 12 | I 've seen him in a proper leather jacket . |
| 13 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
| 14 | Her limbs were graceful , her whole body proportioned like that of a young goddess ; as for her breasts , an infatuated young man who had seen her in a small part at Robert 's Shield Theatre wrote her a letter quoting the Song of Solomon at length : Asshe threatened to horsewhip him . |
| 15 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 16 | I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident . |
| 17 | The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear . |
| 18 | Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way . |
| 19 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
| 20 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 21 | Well , I have n't seen it in a little box yet . |
| 22 | Indeed , successful environmental scanning draws attention to possible changes and events well before they have revealed themselves in a discernible manner . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm afraid this dog affair has got everyone in a nasty mood , ’ Uncle Alfred explained . |
| 24 | Now you can see Body Shop 's here , I 've got them in a nice box now . |
| 25 | I should have thought they might have had them in a separate house really but I suppose there wo n't be enough of them to begin with |
| 26 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 27 | And best of all , the Royston , Hertfordshire-based company has simply taken technology that it has already developed and used it in a creative way , which means the newspaper should be relatively cheap — no pricing was available , however , as the firm builds bespoke systems to suit a customers individual needs . |
| 28 | and they 've also got it in a dark green which is really nice . |
| 29 | Would she have told it in a different way ? |
| 30 | Now has anybody actually got themselves in a total mess ? |