Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 2 | It was n't just the sustained rumbling growls rising to a frenzy as two dogs threatened each other then lunged together in a bitter embrace , each asserting its place in the hierarchy , the priority of its rights over the red bitch . |
| 3 | For it is the hydrogen bonding ability of the existing chain that determines the sequence of bases laid down in a growing chain of genetic material . |
| 4 | Such an approach also clearly specifies operating procedures and mechanisms laid down in a formal manual for example . |
| 5 | Though outnumbered the Nez Perce fought valiantly in a gallant but vain attempt to reach Canada and to find sanctuary . |
| 6 | I had , for the previous fifteen years , enjoyed the privilege of living in a Christian community where the charismatic question had been a lively issue , and where ‘ charismatic ’ and ‘ non-charismatic ’ ordinands lived together in a high degree of mutual trust and love . |
| 7 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 8 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 9 | Tamo ash is apparently a very rare , highly figured wood found only in a small region of Japan . |
| 10 | Luke 's eyebrows drew together in a thunderous bar . |
| 11 | Her brows drew together in a formidable frown . |
| 12 | His brows drew together in a sudden spasm of irritation . |
| 13 | All manometry tracings and radionucleide transit curves were coded and analysed together in a blinded fashion after the study was closed . |
| 14 | Jinkwa had left the command vehicle under the control of the Environments Officer and ventured forth in a scouting party with two of his troopers . |
| 15 | His chin rose quickly in a proud gesture and George 's heart warmed to him . |
| 16 | We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales . |
| 17 | ‘ The worm ! ’ she shouted out in a hoarse voice that was still barely her own . |
| 18 | On the final tumultuous day , foreign visitors began arriving : two English girls , daughters of country parsons , who had hitch-hiked round the world and about ten Japanese tourists who moved cautiously in a close-packed pod bristling with lenses . |
| 19 | Again and again the nightmare rose into his mind like bile into the mouth ; he threshed about in a desperate attempt to shut it out , but again and again he suffered the humiliation , the panic , the pain . |
| 20 | Norwich did have other chances , top scorer Mark Robins seeing a superb volley ruled out for offside — but most of those came towards the end of the game as desperate Oldham charged forward in a vain attempt to gain a point . |
| 21 | For a second the shell lay with a smoking fuse amidst the wreckage of the wheel , then it crashed apart in a deafening explosion . |
| 22 | He stood back in the street , the rain stinging his eyes , wetting him to the skin , getting in his mouth and eyes ; warm rain , huge hard drops , slicking and sticking the clothes to his body ; erotic , making his heart beat faster in a sudden , squally sexual fantasy ; she would invite him in … no , better yet , she would turn up in the street , having been out , also wet to the skin , she would look at him … they would go in … |
| 23 | Lee swam underwater in a warm and dark and all-embracing ocean . |
| 24 | One small corpse found recently in a fashionable district bore the warning : ‘ I kill all those who do n't go to school . ’ |
| 25 | Her voice tailed away in a little shrug of the shoulders that was like a shudder . |
| 26 | Police at Ames , Iowa , are looking for a one-legged burglar who stole a three-legged Labrador dog from an electrical contracting business and got away in a stolen pick-up truck . |
| 27 | Tyrone Evans had been brought into the court 's car park when he overpowered his guard and got away in a blue Renault . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 30 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |