Example sentences of "[vb past] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 2 | I did think of going down to Syon House but remembered Benjamin 's instructions never to approach Johanna without him being present for she dwelt in a twilight world where every man , except Benjamin , was her seducer . |
| 3 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 4 | In the house he now wined and dined in a style that not even Grandfather Funnell had ever done , but all paid for by Grandfather Funnell 's wife , who seemed to have become rejuvenated by the smart , young , fast-talking Mr Jones . |
| 5 | Plastic explosive burns quietly , as I once demonstrated in an admiral 's ashtray , believing the stuff to be an enemy incendiary compound . |
| 6 | Even those who saw the need for theoretical models sometimes exulted in a pluralism that had the effect of giving priority to none . |
| 7 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
| 8 | He excelled in a kind of ‘ collabortive ’ scholarship , ranging from the Oxford History of English Literature through the Early English Text Society volumes produced while he was Director , articles for the Review of English Studies , and the offerings of his devoted students . |
| 9 | But the Sinfonia excelled in a suite from Lehar 's Merry Widow , music that would sit well in the Palm Court or the pier pavilion , but which merits the stylish performance it received . |
| 10 | Then he snapped the top of the lighter down , drew in a mouthful of smoke , and let it out again slowly and meditatively . |
| 11 | Ruth drew in a breath . |
| 12 | It caught on his chin as he tilted his head up and drew in a breath of salted air . |
| 13 | He drew in a breath , his shoulders going back . |
| 14 | She drew in a breath , determined not to be cowed by this hulking brute , but her mouth felt dry as he loomed closer . |
| 15 | The question was so silkily inserted that she drew in a breath . |
| 16 | Lindsey drew in a breath . |
| 17 | She drew in a number of shallow breaths . |
| 18 | The same ideological pattern is to be found within the imperial , educational and commercial programme for " national efficiency " which from the 1890s , drew in a number of prominent figures from the worlds of politics , business , and " letters " . |
| 19 | Mrs Strutt , of Chirk , Clwyd , also helped in a hospital in Llangollen . |
| 20 | Mrs Strutt , of Chirk , Clwyd , also helped in a hospital in Llangollen . |
| 21 | Then , larger than life , so vivid she might almost have reached out and touched herself , there she was , transformed , hardly recognizable : teeth bared in a grin of manic glee , her eyes white-hot and blazing like a berserk android in a film she had seen once . |
| 22 | She slowed , reading what he had written , then stopped , her teeth bared in a smile . |
| 23 | At the same time the hunt passed further on and his wife , my daughter , er had two horses which bolted in a field and leapt the farm gate and er , took off and were caught two miles away . |
| 24 | In 1816 Mrs Hawkes , a pious lady who had herself been a convert of Richard Cecil 's , was called to the death-bed of a Mr Vaughan , whose last hours she described in a letter to a friend : |
| 25 | In 1620 , at the age of twenty-seven , not without some canvassing , he was elected as Public Orator of the University , a post which he joyfully described in a letter to his stepfather , Sir John Danvers , as |
| 26 | One crucial explanation produced by Swift-Hook for the failure to take wind power seriously enough was what he described in an interview with the Hinkley Inquirer as ‘ the naughty reasons ’ . |
| 27 | His 95 years spanned extraordinary changes in economics , which he eloquently described in an article for this newspaper in 1986 . |
| 28 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 29 | I mimicked in a falsetto voice . |
| 30 | Glasser presents a full picture of the behaviour , good and bad , which he encountered in an area of maximum difficulty , and it is not often that such a picture has been presented . |