Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could fit in in a number of ways . |
| 2 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 3 | Never mind the boring breakbeat rubbish going around , this is the real story , which trips you up and hoses you down in a shower of sparkling special effects . |
| 4 | We had been getting it wrong , so were face down in a foot of water in the field doing press-ups . |
| 5 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 6 | They put it down in a strip of shade and stood to attention on either side with their rifles . |
| 7 | The track had climbed , twisted , rocked her in its pot-holes and then swept down in a flurry of loose stones and flying dust , to a house gradually lit , theatrically , as the sun returned from behind a stray afternoon cloud . |
| 8 | Her head snapped back down in a flurry of bouncing coppery hair , her eyes warily searching Lucenzo 's face for some sign of compassion . |
| 9 | She was flung violently forward , to land face down in a heap of blankets , the crushing weight of her assailant forcing all the air out of her body . |
| 10 | The gentle mercies of the lash were used even more extravagantly for civilising the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of the Empire in the nineteenth century , and in one of its anti-garotting tirades Punch ( 6 December 1862 ) had good cause to remember the lesson of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 which had been put down in a sea of blood . |
| 11 | Accordingly , when I arrived there , I settled down in a pew at the back and nodded off . |
| 12 | The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own , and the curtains drawn aside . |
| 13 | At the end of April , all three withdrew from the election after being placed low down in a kind of primary contest held among the United Left 's Madrid rank-and-file to help decide who should go where on the list of candidates put before the capital 's voters ( a candidate 's position is crucial to his chances of a seat ) . |
| 14 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 15 | One night I was down in a bar on V Street and their tongues got loose . ’ |
| 16 | But the success of the organisation lay in the men who ran it as much as in the formal orders ( set down in a minute of July 1942 ) . |
| 17 | Sometimes it shrivelled into itself like water splashing on hot stones , then flared out again as its owner shrank down in a spasm of coughing and straightened up again . |
| 18 | The USC claimed by Jan. 1 to control large areas of the capital , with the President pinned down in a bunker at a military base south of Mogadishu airport ; later reports said he was confined to the presidential palace . |
| 19 | We spotted our first reindeer lying down in a hollow by the roadside some distance ahead and , as I had a telephoto lens on the camera , the others encouraged me to have a go at stalking it . |
| 20 | White 's body was found stabbed and weighted down in a lake near Cirencester in 1989 . |
| 21 | We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette . |
| 22 | He 'll be down in a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 23 | The structure of the economy and society can be broken down in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes . |
| 24 | She reached her mother 's in nearby Northumberland Street and broke down in a state of shock . |
| 25 | Ranger Jeffrey Judd was winched down in a basket to where the Hollywood cameraman lay exhausted , 60 ft below the rim of the Kilauea volcano . |
| 26 | Shortly after this point , the revolt at the ranch is put down in a shoot-out with the police . |
| 27 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 28 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 29 | Only two suffered injuries as the craft came down in a field at Pirbright , Surrey . |
| 30 | Wilson found it agreeably ‘ refreshing ’ to face a customer not across a football-field-sized desk in a corporate headquarters but bobbing gently up and down in a houseboat on the Regents Canal , or over a pleasant weekend at Branson 's Oxford home . |