Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 5 | A dog whined somewhere in a hold . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tamar 's brows drew together in a frown . |
| 9 | Jonadab 's lips set in a straight line and his brows drew together in a frown . |
| 10 | His eyebrows drew together in a frown . |
| 11 | His brows drew together in a frown . |
| 12 | Madeleine 's brows drew together in a scowl . |
| 13 | When she had chosen the least remarkable and staggered downstairs in a pair of high-heeled purple boots the others got their revenge by wheezing about the room in hysterics once more . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He shouted angrily in a voice that sounded American , but the hijacker hit him and then pushed him to the front of the plane with his machine gun . |
| 20 | Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result . |
| 21 | At seven-thirty , in struggling daylight , we stopped briefly in a place identified in suitably small letters on the small station as Schreiber . |
| 22 | Other teeth moved freely in a way that they had never moved before . |
| 23 | Even though she moved freely in a world that had its dark and sordid side , she had stayed clean , too innately fastidious to be even faintly tempted . |
| 24 | The hawk dropped to the ground , rose again in a flurry of striped feathers . |
| 25 | The treetops thrashed violently in a wind that seemed to spend its force before it touched the ground . |
| 26 | This is an earthenware plate commemorating Christmas 1943 at the Luftwaffe unit known as Fliegerhorst Vannes — found recently in a junk shop in France . |
| 27 | ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’ |
| 28 | They lived comfortably in a house built in King Edward 's reign . |
| 29 | Still dazed , Mrs Lomax put the car into gear and drove slowly in a semi-circle , back to the rough track that led away from the Monument . |
| 30 | The legates were first received by Archbishop Jaenberht at Canterbury , from whence they journeyed to the court of Offa , who received them most favourably , and Offa , together with Cynewulf , king of the West Saxons , came together in a council where papal letters directing attention to the need for reform in the Anglo-Saxon Church were consulted and promises of reform made . |