Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , many decisions which are successfully carried out in a given period may not turn out to have been the best possible courses of action . |
| 2 | The intrusiveness of attitudes like these is registered in Anne Bronte 's Agnes Grey ( 1847 ) , when the poor widow , Nancy Brown , feels badly caught out in a moment of negligence : |
| 3 | I 'm not writing anything off because I 've had problems like this in the past which have suddenly turned round in a week . |
| 4 | For — contrary to the legend that it was all thought through in a day — this theory was worked out in three main stages over the next half year . |
| 5 | It was all wrapped up in a knotted kerchief . |
| 6 | He was warmly wrapped up in a fur coat and had gloves on . |
| 7 | An attacker can be quite literally tied up in an excruciatingly painful arm twist in seconds . |
| 8 | He 's like a gazelle , Lee thought , that once ran free and now finds itself all tied up in an unregulated zoo . |
| 9 | The opportunity presented by RMI is nicely summed up in a paper by Black , Dearden , Mayhew and Nichol ( 1989 ) in which they say ‘ Resource management enables clinicians and managers to see directly what the cost of various patterns of care are , to consider alternatives and make decisions in a more informed way — at the level of patient , the service or service mix . |
| 10 | Meredith was suddenly swept up in an insane desire to impress , well , produce something decent . |
| 11 | But the next thing we knew he was all kitted out in a blue and white sailor suit , smelling sweetly of baby lotion and with not a wet patch to be seen . |
| 12 | His raving was suddenly choked off in a fit of agonised coughing by the stinging , acrid fumes of the gasoline which cascaded down over his head and shoulders , as Curtis upended the almost empty can and poured the dregs down over him . |
| 13 | Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot . |
| 14 | If you find such terms as ‘ Uniform Edition ’ , ‘ Valima Edition ’ , ‘ Border Edition ’ ( and even ‘ Author 's Edition ’ ) you will almost certainly be correct in deciding that the volume can not be a ‘ first ’ but forms part of a , later collected edition , all dressed up in a special format — a ‘ uniform ’ , in fact . |
| 15 | Mum kept out of sight until he had left , then down the stairs she came , all dressed up in a long black taffeta dress , which rustled when she moved . |
| 16 | Kidderminster , Redditch , Blackpole and Worcester joined together to make their book donations and presented 32 books to eight local schools , all loaded up in a JS trolley . |
| 17 | But the odds were weighted against reason , and other parts of the mind , like some Resistance movement long held down in an oppressed country , came out into the open . |
| 18 | Professor Dyos ' study of Camberwell was the first in a series of examinations which have enabled us to see how the ubiquitous terraced streets of our great cities were laid out and slowly built up in a highly complex way , for a whole series of social and economic reasons . |
| 19 | He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury . |
| 20 | The next time they came Allen was already hidden up in a beech-tree above where they stood and Marian was far off wandering among her swine looking for flowers . |
| 21 | Now he could see the world ranging round him , as it were , free , exciting and full of possibilities , neither limited by the encircling arms of Jesus , nor somehow squared off in a kind of boxing ring , with Marx , Engels , Lenin and Hegel fierce at every corner , barring all the exits . |
| 22 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 23 | Handlebar 's mate had meanwhile broken out in a kind of partridge death-wail . |
| 24 | The problem in relation to deaf people is nevertheless a challenging one since not only is their language different in vocabulary and grammar from spoken languages but it is also largely carried out in a different medium . |
| 25 | Mud , as a solution to the world 's housing problem , is thus caught up in an intricate economic , social and political web . |
| 26 | Armed with your bridging loan , you are effectively a cash buyer , not caught up in a chain , and you can use this position to your advantage , demanding and getting a good discount . |
| 27 | Interference and ghost images caused by reflections of the received signal are more easily cancelled out in a digital television . |
| 28 | These functions are not carried out in a vacuum ; they are affected by certain key contingencies or variables . |
| 29 | Hence , such experiments are normally carried out in a laboratory permanently equipped with a wind-tunnel ( the name for any system providing a working air stream ) , a water flume or channel ( similar systems with water ) , or a towing tank ( a large tank of stationary water through which an obstacle can be moved ) . |
| 30 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |