Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The message conveyed to the brain from one such cell is a bit ambiguous : it is saying either that a stationary spot is going on or off in a particular region , or that something is moving upwards in that region . |
| 2 | And it ran on , beyond the perimeter of the chamber , on and on in a straight line for hundreds of metres , for kilometres , dwindling in the distance to a taut thread against darkness but still stretching away . |
| 3 | One of the direct results of science and technology has been an increase in production , and a ‘ spin-off ’ or yield of such things as anaesthetics , principles of bacteriology and immunology and hygiene , better control of health and illness , the provision of machines to do what women and children were earlier forced to do , cheaper paper , vast presses to permit the masses to read , followed by other mass media , much better conditions in homes and factories and cities — and on and on in a never-ending list . |
| 4 | The dark girl had dived into the bright turquoise swimming-pool , and was swimming up and down in a leisurely breast-stroke , moving through the myriad white marble reflections in the water like a fish . |
| 5 | Ride up and down in a chauffeur-driven limousine , smoking big cigars . |
| 6 | His injured rear left leg wheeled over and over in a frantic bowling motion . |
| 7 | The hammer-blow force of the lethal chungdan ap-chagi foot-strike , catapulted Baal 's body up and over in a backward flip , his rib-cage crushed and imploded into his ruptured lungs . |
| 8 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 9 | The boy , arms and legs as thin as sticks , his eyes dark and round in a long , white face , came over , his thumb stuck in his mouth . |
| 10 | The band struck up another pastiche of Strauss and the tide of skaters waltzed round and round in a hypnotic swirl of hats and feathers . |
| 11 | We were going round and round in a weird dance and nearly slipped over in the pee that was splattered on the floor . |
| 12 | They climbed higher than any other birds , it seemed ; they ascended into the limitless blue until they became lost to sight or mere specks , drifting round and round in a free flight in which their wings scarcely seemed to move . |