Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans who have been facing us all these weeks have pulled out and are now dug in in a thickly wooded area about three-hundred yards from No. 4 Commando . |
| 2 | A full and very black moustache covered his upper lip and during conversation he frequently smoothed it down in a rather absent-minded fashion with the forefinger of his right hand . |
| 3 | The contemporary academic debate among economists had become bogged down in a rather arid byway of marginal costing and subsidies , and provided little useful guidance on the substantive issues of the day . |
| 4 | Thomist theology and philosophy were laid down in a rather ossified form as the normative Catholic intellectual system , drawn from the Middle Ages and therefore free of any taint of modern influence . |
| 5 | I looked round to find Karen standing in the centre of a group of businessmen who were eyeing her up and down in a blatantly sexual way . |
| 6 | ‘ She looked Max and I up and down in a most condescending manner . |
| 7 | Thus , " in shells of N.lapillus var. imbricata the external sculpturing consists of a series of lamellar corrugations laid down in a fairly regular sequence parallel to the growing edge of the shell which , where they overlap the spiral ridges , are raised to form thin vaulted scales " ( Largen , 1971 ) . |
| 8 | I sat down in a very deep sofa . |
| 9 | The lift used to go up and down in a very slow stately fashion just like a cliff railway . |
| 10 | The drama itself also benefits from this approach : writing in role slows the drama down in a very productive fashion , encouraging children to look at a particular situation in much greater depth than they would otherwise . |
| 11 | It is moving up and down in an ever increasing tempo . |
| 12 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 13 | No vote was taken and Sir John refused to say whether any clubs opposed the deal but he added : ‘ It all went through in a very few minutes . ’ |
| 14 | It 's hard to imagine anybody writing more artificially , but I hope you feel , as I do , there can hardly be a piece of poetry in which the distress of the poet and the feeling that he may be wasting his time comes through in a more anguished fashion . |
| 15 | In the same way , when a teacher adjusts you into an upright position you will probably feel as though you are about to fall over in a forwards direction . |
| 16 | If they formulate detailed hypotheses and produce elaborate questionnaires or interview schedules without first carrying out informal interviews they may well go off in a completely fruitless direction and have only themselves to blame when they end up with several hundred completed forms , none of which have asked the right questions about the right key factors . |
| 17 | They swiftly organise a counter-attack and fight their way out of the farm buildings , heading off in a most unexpected direction , not at all within the design of battle envisaged by the officer cadet commanding the operation . |
| 18 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 19 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 20 | The male inmates who were accommodated in the House would be better off in a more suitable institution . |
| 21 | Edward , resentful , set off in an even more dour frame of mind than usual . |
| 22 | Jamie is propped up in a neatly made bed on which lie two discarded magazines of which he might have read the covers . |
| 23 | Let us consider the poverty of understanding which a child growing up in a religiously deprived background might have of one of the most evocative concepts in religious language , that of " heaven " . |
| 24 | ‘ But being brought up in a strictly Christian home , I 'm so disgusted with myself I feel I 've got to hide it and atone for it with ‘ good works ’ . ’ |
| 25 | Half an hour later Lee had told Philippa everything , curled up in a newly acquired floral armchair in the living-room . |
| 26 | I can lie on the floor , reach up in a rather contorted way and focus it myself , rather than shouting instructions to somebody else , as you have to with a more conventional one . ’ |
| 27 | The Conservatives then took the idea up in a slightly more limited way , but Labour returned to power to put their own scheme on the statute book in 1975 . |
| 28 | ‘ Ma 's coming up in a little , Ethel too . |
| 29 | Earlier this year Central and Anglia teamed up in a jointly owned group , Television Sales & Marketing Services , which has now won contracts to sell time for Border TV and the cable channel Discovery . |
| 30 | Irish Catholics in Glasgow grew up in a similarly hostile environment . |