Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal . |
| 2 | PARIS — The French Army , fatigued by khaki , is to get a new ‘ modular ’ uniform designed by Pierre Balmain and made up in a grey-blue colour known as Terre de France . |
| 3 | This will differ according to the richness of the environment provided by the home and the wider community , but all children live and grow up in a print-rich world full of writing and people who write . |
| 4 | Thus , once again , there is considerable potential for teachers to become confused between the relative demands of these two quite different approaches to moderation and caught up in a great deal of additional work . |
| 5 | Now John Burnett found his good-natured and impressionable son falling under the spell of two far more intelligent men of dubious opinions , and caught up in a wild scheme for emigration to America . |
| 6 | It was clear that the Great Casterton defences had been planned and carried out in an unhurried manner and with military precision . |
| 7 | This nearly always results in drifting further back without much gain of height and ending up in a worse situation than before . |
| 8 | We worked our way around the central tier , hands in pockets , and came out in an ornamental garden open to the stars . |
| 9 | Not only that , but one imagines such huts to be found in the very heart of the wilderness , where one can not ascend a peak and walk out in a single day , and must take shelter for the night . |
| 10 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 11 | During these attacks she would scream and run about in an agitated state . |
| 12 | All these things make their own contribution and add up in a complex way . |
| 13 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 14 | One of the locomotives ( No 73123 ) was named Gatwick Express and turned out in a new livery to match the refurbished Mark 2 stock . |
| 15 | Where they used to rely on incessant effects , now they are n't afraid to leave gaps and swoon around in a beautiful noise of their own making . |
| 16 | Basinger evaded reporters and cameramen as she left the courthouse Wednesday , leaving by a sidedoor and rushing off in a black sedan . |
| 17 | They strung a net between two palm trees and bobbed about in an energetic game of four-a-side volleyball . |
| 18 | Faded now to dirty cream , and thrust down in a crumpled ball to the base of the chest — but still instantly known . |
| 19 | Miss Merchiston opened the door and called out in a piercing shriek for Mrs Diggory . |
| 20 | Markby ‘ did the honours ’ and settled down in a vast , chintz-covered , feather-cushioned armchair . |
| 21 | The weary little hedgehog stumbled into the leafy nest and curled up in a prickly ball . |
| 22 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 23 | ‘ My mother was an innocent young country lass , born and brought up in a tiny village in the far north of Scotland . |
| 24 | There 's a school of thought that Hanley should be given a spot on the bench and brought on in a game-breaking role . |
| 25 | Harvest onions and lay out in a dry sunny spot to fully ripen . |
| 26 | He stopped and went on in a low voice , ‘ I came back early from school and when I came in I saw she 'd been crying . ’ |
| 27 | The music stopped and went on in a brisker six-eight rhythm . |
| 28 | She received the watch and chain from the pawnbroker 's daughter , together with the new pawn ticket and fivepence , and went off in a pleasured state over the transaction , although a little worried that Queen Mary might find out that her naughty niece wanted to show her legs riding bareback on a circus horse . |
| 29 | Sickened by the sterile goals of the middle-class life into which they were born , they gave up everything and took off in a mobile home , fighting to be entitled to educate their two sons themselves . |
| 30 | I crawl into my sleeping bag and curl up in a tight ball . |