Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric 's guitar sounded like two steel rail wagons clanging together in a Chicago freight yard at 4am . |
| 2 | ‘ That Tweed and his girl friend are driving somewhere in a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 3 | ELSIE TANNER , Coronation Street 's tart with a heart , may be dead , but her memory lives on in a Derbyshire pub . |
| 4 | After stripping off in a Levi 's ad and Thelma & Louise , Brad Pitt has been hailed as the new James Dean , a sex symbol for the Nineties . |
| 5 | Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time . |
| 6 | This is usually carried out in a London hospital or other UK hospital specialising in bone marrow transplants . |
| 7 | A study was carried out in a Bedfordshire village , i.e. a semi-rural environment , of predation by domestic cats over a one-year period and the results were published in a zoological journal in 1987 . |
| 8 | I later witnessed exactly the same procedure carried out in a Budapest café with such leisurely incompetence , that everything was completely waterlogged before they began . |
| 9 | The cocked hat brings to mind the hapless Governor of the Falkland Islands , Rex Hunt , driving around in a London taxi until the Argentines came to expel him . |
| 10 | Driving around in a Rolls . |
| 11 | And she insisted on being chauffeured round in a Daimler — just like the Queen . |
| 12 | The 51-year-old noticed the youths acting suspiciously in a Middlesbrough pub . |
| 13 | For three days , while Asmar lingered on in a Beirut hospital , Coleman stayed in the apartment and slept with a gun under his pillow . |
| 14 | Even MTV has jumped on the bandwagon with The Real World , a show that chronicles the lives of seven kids rooming together in a SoHo loft . |
| 15 | Marktrace Projects Ltd is named tonight in a Thames TV documentary Raiders of the Rainforest for alleged misappropriation of a £20m loan . |
| 16 | A chap can be supervising a spiffing archaeological dig on the Eastern fringes of the Soviet Union one day , only to find himself banged up in a Moscow jail on highly dubious spying charges the next . |
| 17 | Whether such countries choose to open up in a GATT round or in bilateral negotiations is beside the point ; opening is opening , however it is achieved . |
| 18 | Anyone who imagines that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer could , wholly independently , determine interest rates here without considering what was going on in a Europe with a single currency , with all the other member countries belonging to it , is totally wrong . |
| 19 | The same may be true of its addition to the 1018 entry that the meeting between Danes and English at Oxford agreed to observe Edgar 's law , which was probably taken from chapter 13 of the Letter of 1019 – 20 , now preserved only in a York manuscript , although there may have been a Worcester copy too . |
| 20 | The strong ‘ New York Mix ’ , with its vocals that shimmer through in a Robert Owens-style haze , is a step up for dub house garage and is matched by a gently acidic , dubbier epic and a ‘ Detroit Mix ’ with an intro and a forest of familiar sounds from someone heavily influenced by the dextrous inventions of Derrick May . |
| 21 | ‘ The most difficult thing in a situation like this , ’ says Jacques , ‘ is to find words that have n't been used already in a Feydeau farce , ’ as though imitating Feydeau 's words and situations was something that any fool could do . |
| 22 | The little Japanese , Otaki , had holed his tee shot and would be going home in a Bentley Mulsanne . |
| 23 | Mrs Hancock turned up in a Rolls-Royce after announcing she had organised a requiem mass at Perth 's St Mary 's Cathedral on Friday . |
| 24 | Growing up in a South African mining town , the son of a reasonably successful lawyer , he might easily have settled down to an ordinary , respectable career , following his father into law , perhaps , as one of his cousins did , or becoming an architect like another of them . |
| 25 | Erica De'Ath , Teenagers Growing up in a Stepfamily |
| 26 | ‘ And do n't worry , Ken 's still on his famous bike — he wo n't be racing around in a Ferrari ! ’ |
| 27 | ( More precisely , we suppose that the imposed wavenumber is within a range that exists stably in a Rayleigh number range a little above critical . |
| 28 | The clubs will meet again in a Heineken League First Division fixture at Sardis Road in seven days and Evans has no intention of allowing the opposition a sneak preview of his table-toppers ' talents . |
| 29 | To go out in a Hong Kong typhoon is to experience an almost pleasurable madness . |
| 30 | The objects were flown back in a UN cargo plane . |