Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Round and round , they rode on in a frenzy , Boadicea just smiled and drank wine |
| 2 | We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ . |
| 3 | The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished . |
| 4 | Rules laid down in a statute would be less flexible . |
| 5 | The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage . |
| 6 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 7 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 8 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 9 | A dog whined somewhere in a hold . |
| 10 | Van Morrison , arguably the second most difficult white performer in rock history , wandered on in a suit to start improvising round a punchy version of the old Weavers hit , Good Night Irene . |
| 11 | They 're still impressive , with the chimney , flues , dressing floors and the remnants of the smelting hearths clustered together in a valley whose sides are covered with heaps of spoil . |
| 12 | They moved together in a dance as old as time until finally Travis slid between her parted thighs , hands going to her hips to hold her tightly against him and feel his desire . |
| 13 | Tamar 's brows drew together in a frown . |
| 14 | Jonadab 's lips set in a straight line and his brows drew together in a frown . |
| 15 | His eyebrows drew together in a frown . |
| 16 | His brows drew together in a frown . |
| 17 | Madeleine 's brows drew together in a scowl . |
| 18 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 19 | Three hundred feet the down rose vertically in a stretch of no more than six hundred — a precipitous wall , from the thin belt of trees at the foot to the ridge where the steep flattened out . |
| 20 | I followed his gesture over the buried walls , across the narrow roadway between the ploughed-out snow dunes to where the fell rose steeply in a sweep of broken white to join the leaden sky . |
| 21 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 22 | Halema handed the incense pot to one of the maids , and the women moved off in a wave of black veiling . |
| 23 | My eye swelled up in a matter of minutes , and I was unable to hear anything . |
| 24 | She reminded him of a young colt : there were moments when her legs seemed much too long and her posture quite unladylike — and others when , caught unawares in a reverie , she had all the poise of a marquesa . |
| 25 | The pressure built up in a system as a result of the intake of water by osmosis . |
| 26 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 27 | Haig , though still hugely optimistic , reported later in a dispatch : ‘ The low-lying clayey soil , torn by shells and sodden by rain , turned to a succession of vast muddy pools . |
| 28 | For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo . |
| 29 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 30 | But there it petered out in a welter of bloody , confused fighting . |