Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were back on the road and he did not see Madeleine 's mouth turn down in a pout . |
| 2 | Rarely did any Tiller Girl stand out in a glamorous way but stunning was always the word used to describe Violet Bryant nicknamed Ginger because of her glorious red hair , she could not possibly blend in with the others . |
| 3 | To find out what effect this has on the perch 's eggs , and how much the minnows gain from the ploy , Reiko Baba of Japan 's Osaka City University spent up to six hours a day face down in a stream , armed with a snorkel and face mask . |
| 4 | Previously it 's been just a blank sheet of printing paper shut up in a lightproof envelope ; now it has a function , an image , a certainty . |
| 5 | Suppose the pieces of the jigsaw start off in a box in the ordered arrangement in which they form a picture . |
| 6 | I wanner go up in a pile a smoke an' flames an' eye shadder an' levver shoes an' dancin' an' all that I 'll go like them girls in the magazines Sharon an' you ai n't goin' ter stop me . |
| 7 | I know this sort of stuff is we had similar to when I worked in the shop er , used to , he had three quarters of this , guy come round in a van or whatever , back of a van |