Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] in an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All her fifteen combed and scrubbed years rose up in an endless vista of baths and shampoos and clean underwear ; a cortege of full baths in which she had washed herself , a slithering file of bars of soap which she had rubbed to nothing against her flesh . |
| 2 | Outside in the war-torn street , Special Forces vehicles drew up in an uncompromising line . |
| 3 | The-other four Goshawk aircraft came down in an angled line which allowed each gun to rake the target from nose to tail in a continuous devastation of bullets . |
| 4 | Half way through his super-human effort his foot slipped and in mid-launch he came down in an uncoordinated heap just outside the throwing circle . |
| 5 | This fella came over in an 18–30 steward 's blazer and he said , ‘ You 're responsible for me working here ’ . |
| 6 | You could follow my example and hitchhike out of Miami airport , but only if you 're prepared to risk being picked up by a religious maniac , or dropped off in an impenetrable jungle of freeways close to the cocaine-dealing centre of America , or both . |
| 7 | At the foot of the steps , Murphy waited , bundled up in an old sheepskin . |
| 8 | Once rescued , Eric dried out in an old sweater , and was reassured by owner Stephanie Webb . |
| 9 | We worked our way around the central tier , hands in pockets , and came out in an ornamental garden open to the stars . |
| 10 | The assistant chaplain of Norwich prison , who drove around in an old Maestro , carefully invested cash inherited from his father 's shipping business . |
| 11 | ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way . |
| 12 | Two lanes north and two lanes south cars poured through in an unbroken line ; container trucks , like cliffsides on the move , whammed into each other 's slipstream . |
| 13 | The floor was of black and red quarry tiles and there were racks on the walls for the guns but these , of course , had gone , Hilbert 's two shot-guns had gone , one buried in the Little Wood , the other in his bedroom at home in Edgware , zipped up in an old golf-bag under the bed . |
| 14 | He followed her hungry gaze to the pyramid of tiny doughnuts , piled up in an embossed brass dish . |
| 15 | They strung a net between two palm trees and bobbed about in an energetic game of four-a-side volleyball . |
| 16 | The tables were covered with the velvet Dave had found and the exhibits laid out in an orderly fashion . |
| 17 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 18 | We bore a letter of introduction from Werner Meyer to Puang Ranteallo , son of the late king — whom we at last tracked down in an astonishing arena . |
| 19 | NEWCASTLE No 2 Terry McDermott yesterday hit back in an angry war of words with Aberdeen boss Willie Miller . |
| 20 | ‘ My symptoms only became apparent after 18 months — the skin of my bottom broke out in an itchy rash . |
| 21 | Fire broke out in an old , litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished . |
| 22 | ‘ Now let's go over it once more , ’ he went on in an encouraging voice . |
| 23 | She checked what she was saying and then went on in an altered tone . |
| 24 | ‘ It is not at all like her , ’ Mrs Marsden went on in an aggrieved tone . |
| 25 | However he went on in an important passage to say that if contractual restrictions appear to be unnecessary or to be reasonably capable of enforcement in an oppressive manner then they must be justified before they can be enforced . |
| 26 | ‘ So much , Steve , ’ she went on in an agonised whisper . |
| 27 | they lost by six at Crewe … won by five against Colchester … and then went down in an eight goal bonanza last week … |
| 28 | Nenad Bucin did not rescind his resignation , but in accordance with constitutional provisions Momir Bulatovic , the president of the Montenegrin presidency , took over in an acting capacity as Montenegro representative on the Collective State Presidency . |
| 29 | I 'M ASHAMED to be the first Scotland captain sent off in an international match . |
| 30 | Flynn and his pals clean up Dodge only to feel suffocated by a town so decent it ai n't fit for a man to live in and head off in a joke finish for the still-wild Virginia City , which Flynn cleaned up in an unconnected follow-up . |