Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah , I was so angry , I was , he had my arm right , I forced , pushed him back it was , like , behind my back so I lent back thinking oh he 'll give me his arms then anyway old flipping hag came in did n't she ! |
| 2 | the window he 's a brave old boy to go in . |
| 3 | But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’ |
| 4 | The situation can be seen either as successive waves of colonists from old established centres filling in the landscape with daughter settlements , or as a scatter of settlements , some of which develop while others remain unaltered . |
| 5 | Teenage antenatal classes exist in quite a few hospitals now , but there are not nearly enough . |
| 6 | I 'm not denying people 's right to do it , but politics is about power , and suppose the Social Democratic Party moved in and swept the board , what would we do then ? |
| 7 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 8 | he here 's a Pat Boone record or something and all of a sudden he started dancing to all this and the old black bloke comes in and says oh my life , he could n't get any of the old blokes . |
| 9 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 10 | At that moment a man in an old black coat rushed in . |
| 11 | And yet it is still against the law of the land for another ordained Anglican leader to come in and plant another church to help reach the people ! |
| 12 | A foul zephyr of ageing artificial air washed in around her , heavy with rancid oil and zinc . |
| 13 | ‘ By chance , the skipper placed an advert in a local newspaper in Scotland and Scottish Nuclear Fuels stepped in . |
| 14 | Spontaneous gastric ulcers occur in genetically mast cell depleted mice and duodenal ulcer can occur spontaneously in autoimmune mice , but the physiological situation is not normal in either case and nor are these suitable comparisons with human ulcers . |
| 15 | What happened was that he started doing his English Ziggy Stardust dates in early ‘ 72 and he worked without stopping until the summer of ‘ 73 when he did his Hammersmith Odeon concert and retired from the stage . |
| 16 | The material , long hidden in KGB files or in the memories of intelligence operatives , is up for grabs as ageing ex-KGB agents come in from the cold to trade in their undercover pasts for over-the-counter assets . |
| 17 | European central banks stepped in to stem its rise . |
| 18 | Studies of intergovernmental relations , and of inputs and outputs , both failed to consider the actual political processes operating in and around local government . |
| 19 | On Sept. 30 , Russian troops stationed in Tajikistan , reinforced by an extra 800 troops ordered in on Sept. 28 , took control of Dushanbe airport . |
| 20 | When they are in moult they often sit ashore on the rocks , when their dark brown plumage blends in with the dark rocks . |
| 21 | ( These included 13,000 based in Panama and an extra 2,000 troops flown in on Dec. 23 to restore order in Panama City . ) |
| 22 | Ford 's cheapest Sierra , the 80bhp 1.6-litre CFi , costs £10,985 and Vauxhall 's most basic 1.6-litre Cavalier weighs in at £10,270 . |
| 23 | Despite the cold wet wind blowing in hard from the street , the cloud of mephitic vapours lingered stupefyingly about our heads . |
| 24 | In later years , many of the rural and semi-rural mills went out of business as a result of competition from the large steam-powered mills built in and around Gloucester Docks . |
| 25 | Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis occurs in about 3/1000 live births . |
| 26 | You let nasty little personal grudges creep in , and you taint the experience . |
| 27 | In his story , a scruffy Neapolitan improvisatore breaks in on a Petersburg gentleman-poet in his study . |
| 28 | An intriguing , though not widely accepted notion is that the first large organic molecules arose in very special circumstances , such as the hot springs ( hydrothermal vents ) that well up from volcanoes at the bottom of the sea . |
| 29 | Then he asked Dr Mortimer if anyone with a large black beard lived in or near Baskerville Hall . |
| 30 | A large black automobile pulled in opposite the building , and a woman in a grey fur coat got out . |