Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense . |
| 2 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 3 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |
| 4 | An intelligence , guided by a purpose , must be continually in action to bias the direction of the steps of change — to regulate their amount — to limit their divergence — and to continue them in a definite course … |
| 5 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
| 6 | She hoped he would approve of her smart black dress and the way she had pulled her hair back from her face and pinned it in a classical knot at the back of her head . |
| 7 | Like the smaller copepods , euphausiids are mainly herbivorous , combing algal cells from the water and gathering them in a basket-like arrangement of bristles on their many-jointed forelimbs . |
| 8 | We will now develop these themes and combine them in a systematic way to construct an improved understanding of the relationship between daily life and the nation state . |
| 9 | I think if you got maybe a twenty five year old who came to your school for a week and got you in a small group and talked about it , it would be great on a one to one basis . |
| 10 | The new mood turns the idea of what is received taste on its head by employing the use of sometimes ‘ naff ’ items from previous decades , and incorporating them in a fresh context . |
| 11 | The activity had been planned so that when children helped one another they would be using principles applied in problem-solving on one of the tasks and applying them in a new form on the other . |
| 12 | The figure turned stiffly and fixed them in a sightless gaze . |
| 13 | The electrons may be emitted from a hot cathode maintained at a fixed temperature and then conducted through a stable arrangement of electric and magnetic fields which imparts to them a certain amount of energy and focusses them in a particular region of space . |
| 14 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 15 | I awoke , and found myself in a cold hillside . |
| 16 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 17 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |
| 18 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 19 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 20 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 21 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 22 | They pushed through the door , and found themselves in a big general office . |
| 23 | She pushed open the only door , and found herself in a spacious but gloomy office . |
| 24 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 25 | Bernice followed him , and found herself in a square space behind the staircase . |
| 26 | Measure for Measure takes this basic pattern and develops it in a new direction . |
| 27 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 28 | They have been left behind by the economic restructuring of the 1980s , shunted off on a branch line of history and left back in the twilight of the 1970s along with flares and skinheads , a time when demagogues made last-ditch efforts to salvage working-class pride and channel it in a fascist direction . |
| 29 | Take three potatoes of the same variety and place one in a cool dark place , expose one to daylight and one to fluorescent light . |
| 30 | Cut the mackerel fillets into cubes and place them in a large bowl . |