Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she suddenly turned back in the direction they had come and ran all the way , her wet shift slapping against her bare legs . |
| 2 | Yesterday , I incautiously sat down in the library in a chair just vacated by Colonel Fagg , and discovered later that the back of my entire uniform was covered in snuff . |
| 3 | I eventually came round in the Chamden General Hospital and on the slab next to me was club chairman , Ken Mentle , an oxygen pump beside him , a nurse frantically thumping his chest and Ken rambling deliriously about a Micky Deere scorcher from the penalty spot which had given us victory . |
| 4 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 5 | Since they had started paying ‘ interest ’ , they no longer woke up in the middle of the night squealing with fright from nightmares . |
| 6 | He just swivelled around in the middle , while she danced . |
| 7 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 8 | Many teachers , I have found , can remember from their own schooldays the shock and guilt they felt when a teacher finally broke down in the face of what , to the class , had seemed to be ‘ just having a bit of fun ’ . |
| 9 | I had intended to go to Downing Street , but then I thought I could n't bear it if old Chamberlain came out waving a bit of paper and smiling his death 's head smile , so I just lay down in the park instead . |
| 10 | The curators of the grand US museums like the Metropolitan look down their noses at these shows , but the citizens of Memphis are pleased as can be , because before WONDERS they just felt out in the boondocks . |
| 11 | ‘ Don and I were near the top , ’ Steve explains , ‘ but we just saw down in the snow and Don pulled out a bottle of booze . |
| 12 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 13 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 14 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 15 | We finally set out in the evening . |
| 16 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
| 17 | Follow That Camel was filmed in May , but Gerald Thomas still woke up in the morning to find snow all over their Fort Zuassantneuf set . |
| 18 | The loss of Acre in 1291 had a symbolic significance for all the nobilities of western Europe , but a sense of unfulfilled obligation still lingered on in the testamentary dispositions of Gascon nobles . |
| 19 | STRUGGLING Nottingham Forest yesterday lost out in the chase for Napoli sweeper Laurent Blanc . |
| 20 | Some of them straggled back through Taunton , and being in no hurry to get home settled down in the Floral Gardens , playing guitars and tambourines , smoking joints , dropping acid and chanting mantras . |
| 21 | He could n't possibly see her in the darkness , but she still shrank down in the seat — then felt her eyes widen when he stripped off his jacket and started to unbutton his shirt . |
| 22 | She quickly sat up in the bed , the blanket wrapped round her . |
| 23 | The second Lord Redesdale once stood up in the House of Lords to argue that ‘ denial of the hereditary principle is a direct blow at the Crown . |
| 24 | And now a shabby mischance had destroyed it , knocked down the precarious walls of my prison , I still sat on in the wreckage and kept my eyes closed , safe behind broken bars . |
| 25 | Before her astonished eyes he calmly sat down in the chair at the opposite side of the desk . |
| 26 | And wherever she might wander , she always set out in the same direction . |
| 27 | You just automatically got up in the morning , jumped in your car , went to work , you were there for half six , sun shone , cup of tea , read the Sun , sit down , get on your lathe , have your break at ten o'clock , lunch time , have your meal and then you have a game of football outside in the car park or whatever , and you had a daily little routine . |
| 28 | Eddie also got through in the singles with a 21–7 win over Eddie Price and Maureen Fearon , the Irish international bowler from Dungannon beat L. Hill 21–17 and then teamed up with Fra Brady to beat A and M Hoey in the mixed pairs . |
| 29 | I remembered the name of the manufacturer who 'd said ‘ yes ’ on the telephone , and two days later drove off in the Metro and picked out my coffin . |
| 30 | As she stood up in her stirrups , stretching over Hermia 's nearside shoulder to hit the forehand , her right leg automatically swivelled up in the air . |