Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around the catafalque are some of his most powerful magical items , which lie scattered around in a strange quasi-circular pattern as if they were being drawn to the catafalque in a spiralling motion and suddenly stopped . |
| 2 | ‘ Like a dog you keep chained up in a dark room . |
| 3 | Moreover , many of the issues have spilled over in a marked renewal of interest in the state in the last twenty years . |
| 4 | With the breakdown of the administration , crime syndicates have come up in a big way . |
| 5 | The improvements have come not in a dramatic way but week by week over a number of months . |
| 6 | You have come back in a funny mood . |
| 7 | For the first time staff concerned with mapping and interpreting crustal structure in the third dimension have come together in a single division , Thematic Maps and Onshore Surveys ( TMOS ) . |
| 8 | That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while . |
| 9 | On a hundred occasions I have idled similarly in a deserted croft in the Highlands of Scotland and wondered about the lives that had been lived in it . |
| 10 | Accordingly , where humanities scholars have engaged the computer in text creation and analysis , they have done so in a sophisticated way . |
| 11 | It is also how one must determine whether others have acted well or not , so far as externals go , though how far they have acted well in a proper inward sense , that is , how far they have been truly guided by the categorical imperative , rather than by the calculations of self interest , is hidden away in the depths of their being , hidden perhaps even from themselves . |
| 12 | Uninhibited by any tradition of building , they have taken off in a confused conglomeration of tile , cement , plastics , marble and paint that would have taxed the imagination of Disney . |