Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hobby was breeding bees and one day he brought them in in a glass cabinet and he was saying , ‘ These are the workers and this is the queen bee , and they fly out of the window and come back with pollen and they make honey . ’ |
| 2 | Nurse Amanda Cadder saw the Essex post worker shot down in a Florida car park . |
| 3 | Women motorists have been urged to be vigilant after two women were raped after three men flagged them down in a country lane in Bedfordshire . |
| 4 | And despite selling striker Teddy Sheringham to Tottenham last week for £2.1m , Forest are still busy searching the market for a replacement after being turned down in a £1.5m move for Arsenal 's Alan Smith . |
| 5 | The rock slice is placed face down in a polythene tray into 30% HF solution for 3 or 4 min . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , winter , The funeral car got bogged down in a snow drift . |
| 7 | US fighter crash : Crew eject as plane comes down in a car park . |
| 8 | However , if all the jobs a housewife does were put down in a job description people might think twice before saying this . |
| 9 | He sat his guest down in a cubbyhole office , mixed instant coffee with the help of a whistling electric kettle , and rambled into a monologue of his thoughts on Michael Holly . |
| 10 | Erlich wrote it all down in a pocket notebook , longhand . |
| 11 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 12 | CAPTAIN Mirko Pintar stormed out of the cockpit and sat down in a passenger seat . |
| 13 | After dropping out of RADA he joined the RAF in the war , was shot down in a bombing mission over Denmark and spent three years in a Polish PoW camp . |
| 14 | ‘ After that I was just lying down in a hospital bed . ’ |
| 15 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 16 | Attempting to make a detour , the car got bogged down in a salt lake and was abandoned . |
| 17 | Well , when sedimentary material at a continental margin gets pulled down in a subduction zone at a plate , fusion could take place as the pressure increased . |
| 18 | Donegal would n't fancy meeting Down in an Ulster final . ’ |
| 19 | Japan 's oldest nuclear reactor , of the pressurized water variety , was shut down in an emergency procedure on Feb. 10 , after a pipe that was part of the cooling system ruptured . |
| 20 | It is widely accepted that the rate increases as firms get smaller as liquidity burdens are passed along in a ripple effect from the very largest firms through lengthening credit notes . |
| 21 | In its humped posture it runs along in a zigzag path , quivering its wings and stopping every so often to make sure that it is being followed . |
| 22 | Twice he had seriously wounded men in duels , and finally he had run another junior officer through in a tavern brawl . |
| 23 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 24 | If Doris Arthur came through with the script ahead of schedule , he could zip it over in a Poseidon wallet within twenty-four hours . |
| 25 | His mother presses the sweets into his hand like someone handing blood plasma over in a war zone . |
| 26 | Their heads lowered to avoid the outstretched hand and pale features of a thin leather clad figure hunched over in a shop doorway . |
| 27 | Cathery reflected all Wilson 's sentiments on the treatment of Germans when the war was over in an election address to the people of Bootle , where he was a parliamentary candidate . |
| 28 | During our game with Sporting Hydra Chemicals in which we trounced them before going down 1–0 , Duncan Pugh 's false beard came off in a goal-mouth fracas and he was questioned , at length , by referee Bobby Maxwell . |
| 29 | Major minor was sent off in a school soccer match . |
| 30 | There , where the sea floor suddenly drops to three thousand feet and more , they dive down to about 1400 feet and swim off in a southwest direction . |