Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |
| 2 | Life becomes crazy when I 'm recording Birds Of A Feather so I tend to organise working lunches and sit down in a restaurant to get my fuel . |
| 3 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 4 | Recruited for a tricky mission , he pinions a German plane under his own , crashes into a dam , floods a German base and goes out in a blaze of glory , having saved the British fleet from likely destruction . |
| 5 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 6 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 7 | and fly off in a shower , airily |
| 8 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 9 | ‘ Office girls were screaming uncontrollably and walking about in a daze with blood pouring from them , ’ said witness Helen Millican . |
| 10 | The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time . |
| 11 | The best and longest-lasting tans are acquired slowly — quick tans are usually fast burns and peel off in a trice . |
| 12 | Flying through the sea breeze front without realising it is a common cause of inadvertently landing downwind and ending up in a hedge . |
| 13 | That 's what the law did four years ago when he was training to win his silver in Seoul and driving about in a car supplied by the British Olympic Association . |
| 14 | Our landing party found much evidence of recent occupation such as up-to-date papers and fresh food stocks , but no bodies , and wandered around in a kind of Marie Celeste situation for a while before finding a locked door . |
| 15 | Endill left the library and wandered about in a daze . |
| 16 | Jerkily she rose en pointe on one wooden leg and twisted round in a pirouette . |
| 17 | He duelled briefly with the Triplane , lost it , and came round in a wide , searching turn . |
| 18 | Flynn and his pals clean up Dodge only to feel suffocated by a town so decent it ai n't fit for a man to live in and head off in a joke finish for the still-wild Virginia City , which Flynn cleaned up in an unconnected follow-up . |
| 19 | It had seeped through his clothes and spread out in a half-circle , staining the grass and soaking into the sandy soil . |
| 20 | He let the towel drop and dug around in a drawer for some underwear . |
| 21 | Director PAUL VERHOEVEN tells EDWARD MURPHY about courting controversy and growing up in a nightmare , while KIM NEWMAN casts an eye over the overblown finished product |
| 22 | Her hair was dyed grey and drawn up in a bun , with two needles crossed through it . |
| 23 | Then do various things , like putting your hands in the air , jumping up and down and going round in a circle , until eventually you go back in line . |
| 24 | ‘ Sunset in the Mediterranean way with fire and passion and going out in a blaze of glory , ’ he teased , grabbing at a blanket from the back of one of the wicker chairs on the terrace . |
| 25 | ‘ Followed by making love with fire and passion and going out in a blaze of glory — anywhere ! ’ he added with a laugh of pure cynicism . |
| 26 | There , where the sea floor suddenly drops to three thousand feet and more , they dive down to about 1400 feet and swim off in a southwest direction . |
| 27 | Ramos , the then Justice Minister , rejected the accusations against the authorities contained in the October 1989 report ( and borne out in a document published by the Landless Peasants Movement , Sem Terra , in September 1989 ) and proposed the declaration of a state of emergency in certain areas to crush this kind of violence . |
| 28 | Arranged around the photograph were bouquets of plastic flowers : virulent scarlet poppies with green leaves , straggly ivy , lemon tulips , alabaster roses — all out of season and radiating out in a baroque flurry from the central shrine . |
| 29 | JOIN our prize trail and drive off in a brand new SEAT Ibiza 1.2 SLXi ! |
| 30 | As the law stands , it is possible for a teenager to pass a driving test on his 17th birthday — and drive off in a 150mph Ford Sierra or a Mercedes sports . |