Example sentences of "[adv prt] in an [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 2 | Sahabzadi Qamar Sultan , born in the first year of the twentieth century , was wrapped up in an all-enveloping white salwar kameez . |
| 3 | Mud , as a solution to the world 's housing problem , is thus caught up in an intricate economic , social and political web . |
| 4 | Brought up in an English public school , Alexander is introduced very suddenly to his new destiny and he reacts predictably ; when he examines the documents attesting to his birth he feels ‘ a sudden thrill of pride ’ : |
| 5 | The three teams all start out in an eight-team Fourth Division . |
| 6 | When play finally resumed at 3.48 pm , too late to seek an outright decision , he reached 85 not out in an 81-run 10th wicket stand with debutant left-arm spinner Hamish Kember , who was stumped by Young for 1 from the first aggressive shot he tried . |
| 7 | When his militiamen had stormed onto the Jiyeh coast road and killed the remaining Phalangist defenders there in 1985 , I found Walid leaning back in an old wooden chair in one of his palace reception rooms , swigging from a bottle of frozen Czech lager and lamenting the moral improprieties of war . |