Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] in the " 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 | Richard moved about in the bathroom ; the light hurt my eyes so I turned on my stomach and hid my face in the pillow . |
| 3 | Donna twisted about in the bath , sending water sloshing over the edge and on to the cork-tiled floor . |
| 4 | Rocky came on in the 60th minute but could not affect the game . |
| 5 | Marie hung about in the middle of the road , looking in . |
| 6 | Wayne Biggins went down in the box . |
| 7 | Ngo Van Loc reached out in the darkness and clasped both his sons ' hands tightly in his own . |
| 8 | Angalo stretched out in the shade . |
| 9 | Xanthe stood up in the narrow space between the bed and the door in Miranda 's room , and said , ‘ You look rather ‘ beatnik ’ . |
| 10 | As Richard stood up in the boat , he could be seen to hesitate , not about what he wanted to do , but about procedures . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Gaveston bustled about in the darkness , found a tinder , and a cresset torch flared into life . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Ewen sat back in the chair , and managed , very creditably I thought , a wry little smile . |
| 15 | ‘ Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations . |
| 16 | Katherine straightened up in the chair . |
| 17 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 18 | Maud knelt down in the dust . |
| 19 | Ruth flopped back in the lounger and studied the vapour trail through half-closed eyes . |
| 20 | Ruth hung back in the shadowy hallway and peered through the wide arched open front door , her heart beating so wildly she felt sick with it . |
| 21 | Sebastian cut off in the glory and promise of his youth , with all the world before him . |
| 22 | Mildred felt around in the bumping , musty darkness and discovered a whistle , a notebook with a rubber band round it , and a voluminous handkerchief . |
| 23 | Sebastian went on in the same vein for quite some minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay . |
| 25 | Broomhead looked up in the direction of the shouting and saw a woman leaning out of a window on the top floor of Bacon Buildings . |
| 26 | Simon reared up in the water and flapped his wings . |
| 27 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 28 | Karen sat down in the soft , dark sand and let the ripples of cold Atlantic water wash round her thighs . |
| 29 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 30 | Katherine sat back in the warmth of her seat and watched Central Park give way to the shops and office towers of midtown Manhattan . |