Example sentences of "in a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone picked up their travelling bags and in a straggle more than a group walked back towards the passengers ' assembly area . |
| 2 | He lives in a jungle today and he does n't know it . ’ |
| 3 | She 's lived in a hut in a clearing just beyond the trees for God knows how long . ’ |
| 4 | There have been scores of potentially dangerous incidents , some of them in a generator little more than a mile from the border with West Germany . |
| 5 | According to Hermann , working in the late eleventh century , this happened because Edmund 's popularity was increasing , and this tends to be confirmed by the entry of his feast-day in calendars produced in Winchester and Canterbury at about the same time , and by the inclusion of a special mass for him in a sacramentary probably written in Ely . |
| 6 | My master listened to him half-heartedly , more engrossed in studying a piece of parchment on which he was writing cryptic notes in a cipher even I did not understand . |
| 7 | In a story strikingly reminiscent of John Fowles ' ‘ The Collector ’ , Ricky ( Antonio Banderas ) seeks out and woos Marina ( Victoria Abril ) , a prostitute with whom he once slept and now wishes to marry on his release from a psychiatric ward . |
| 8 | He had hoped to make her apologize humbly and promise never to use him in a story again . |
| 9 | In order to keep their appetites satisfied , in a relationship seemingly destined for disaster , they go far beyond the boundaries regarded as normal . |
| 10 | For a moment , she vowed never to look in a mirror again , in case she should be able to trace the outlines of her own durium-laced bones . |
| 11 | Have you seen yourself in a mirror lately ? ’ |
| 12 | In common with regional centres on the continent , the city presents its ambitions in a European rather than national frame . |
| 13 | The Reverend Bert Jones , a minister in the United Reformed CHurch , and Miles Cooper were among a dozen hunt saboteurs who witnessed the scene and were invoved in a skirmish afterwards . |
| 14 | get the figures , do I mean , we 're talking generalities , if you 're saying from what you know already the , the remote control gear is going to be sixteen double O four six eight O seven , and that is the best bearing arrangement that anybody could , anybody could produce , then , if that 's the answer , then for goodness sake get the figures , stick 'em in a memo so we can go and hit Peter , and make it quite clear to them that over the next year they 're going to lose half a million six double O ones , or whatever it is |
| 15 | ‘ Then a nest of tentacles writhes from the swarf , trapping my feet in a grip so strong . |
| 16 | Yes so all this time were you still living in a nurses home ? |
| 17 | A woman as socially assured as Alison Kraemer does n't get her knickers in a twist just because an acquaintance , however unsuitably married , asks her how she enjoyed the concert . |
| 18 | ‘ Why 's he getting his knickers in a twist anyway if he 's so sure it 's a mistake ? ’ |
| 19 | Some would say that that is because of the recession , but we are in a slump rather than a recession . |
| 20 | For a poet so hostile to Virgil to discover that in extremis only Virgil had foreseen and foresuffered his predicament , and thereby eased it — this surely constitutes a very poignant moment in literary history , and in a history rather larger than ‘ literary ’ may suggest . |
| 21 | Brazilian Christian Fittipaldi was fourth in a Minardi ahead of Finland 's J J Lehto who grabbed fifth place in the rain-drenched closing stages for the new Swiss team Sauber . |
| 22 | Brazilian Christian Fittipaldi was fourth in a Minardi ahead of Finland 's JJ Lehto who grabbed fifth place in the rain-drenched closing stages for the new Swiss team Sauber . |
| 23 | Until now he has managed to push bills through the National Assembly , even though his Socialists are in a minority there , by making little deals with the conservatives or with the Communists . |
| 24 | Have you ever seen that , anybody do the actions in a song before ? |
| 25 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 26 | Put him in a coach now and by morning Russell might be used to being close to white people again . |
| 27 | Below the main array a full-width sub-panel carries the rotary fuel selector ( fuel is carried three underbelly tanks with triple fillers neatly recessed in a panel just behind the door on the left side of the fuselage and accessible from the floats ) , switches for magnetos , generator , fuel pumps and all the other electrical equipment . |
| 28 | " You should have a shot on one of the pianos in a pub sometime , " he said . |
| 29 | whether he will be invited to lunch , and if not , whether he should get a sandwich in a pub instead , and if so , whether he would prefer egg and tomato , or cheese and chutney ; |
| 30 | Wickham revived the Black Friar meeting , suggesting Maureen knew what Barron wanted to talk to her father about and asking why it had been important to them to meet in a pub instead of one of the two Fleet Street offices at their disposal . |