Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nine that morning they were parked on a side-street off Tottenham Court Road , Bodie at the wheel of the Capri , Doyle slouched down in the passenger seat , idly , almost cursorily , watching the heavy flow of traffic up towards Warren Street . |
| 2 | Meredith lunged out in a desperate attempt to save their contents only to find her feet slipping on the melted snow which had been walked in from outside . |
| 3 | Richard moved about in the bathroom ; the light hurt my eyes so I turned on my stomach and hid my face in the pillow . |
| 4 | Donna twisted about in the bath , sending water sloshing over the edge and on to the cork-tiled floor . |
| 5 | Manville flopped down in a chair without being asked . |
| 6 | England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills . |
| 7 | For three days , while Asmar lingered on in a Beirut hospital , Coleman stayed in the apartment and slept with a gun under his pillow . |
| 8 | Rocky came on in the 60th minute but could not affect the game . |
| 9 | He stood by the cab with the door held open , and Lucy climbed out in a daze . |
| 10 | There was , however , still time for the occasional screen appearance and as she headed towards graduation from High School Kylie popped up in a mini-series , Fame And Misfortune and another show The Zoo Family . |
| 11 | Marie hung about in the middle of the road , looking in . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw Liza Carrow , ’ Eleanor went on in a matter-of-fact way . |
| 13 | Wayne Biggins went down in the box . |
| 14 | Rex looked up in no small surprise . |
| 15 | Ngo Van Loc reached out in the darkness and clasped both his sons ' hands tightly in his own . |
| 16 | Oh , I can read the signs as well as anyone , ’ Dora went on in a sudden surge of indignation as Melissa 's eyebrows lifted . |
| 17 | Xanthe ambled in in a tousled yawning state and yesterday 's clothes and flopped into the empty chair beside Filmer . |
| 18 | Angalo stretched out in the shade . |
| 19 | Xanthe stood up in the narrow space between the bed and the door in Miranda 's room , and said , ‘ You look rather ‘ beatnik ’ . |
| 20 | As Richard stood up in the boat , he could be seen to hesitate , not about what he wanted to do , but about procedures . |
| 21 | That " No provision for the economic rehabilitation of Europe , " appeared was a profound weakness J. M. Keynes pointed out in The Economic Consequences of the Peace ( 1919 ) . |
| 22 | Gaveston bustled about in the darkness , found a tinder , and a cresset torch flared into life . |
| 23 | As Gorbachev pointed out in an interview in early 1991 , only about 30 per cent of the USSR 's boundaries had been legally defined . |
| 24 | Tammuz sat down in a chair opposite her and picked up a pen to fiddle with . |
| 25 | Ten days later , at eight-thirty in the morning of Wednesday , 22nd January , Robyn Penrose set off in a snowstorm and an ill humour to begin her stint as the University of Rummidge Faculty of Arts Industry Year Shadow , or URFAIYS as she was designated in memoranda emanating from the Vice-Chancellor 's Office . |
| 26 | But as Orton pointed out in the diary , as usual nothing came of it — not even after telling a man who tried to get in their way to ‘ piss off ’ . |
| 27 | Ewen sat back in the chair , and managed , very creditably I thought , a wry little smile . |
| 28 | One night about a month ago Tod woke up in an unusually desperate condition , half clothed , in fact , and with everything intolerably slewing around him — as if the bedroom was moored to a loosening capstan inside his gut , where his secret moans . |
| 29 | ‘ Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations . |
| 30 | Katherine straightened up in the chair . |