Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] [adj] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 Having settled Rachel in a corner and piled our luggage round her and left you , Mig , on guard , I struggled back against the refugees and climbed the gangway again to find Tim looking a little bewildered in the midst of a seething mass of humanity but remarkably calm , and soon we were back on the small boat .
2 We continued fishing and although it went quiet for me Rick did have another two cats at 17lb 12oz and 12lb 8oz , but both seemed a little insignificant in the light of previous events .
3 First though , with things getting a little hot in the manager 's seat at Oxford United , here 's Erika with the sport .
4 Our task was to persuade teachers that classroom discussion of linguistic terms could be stimulating and creative , even if a long account of children 's talk looked a little strange in an official Report directed to the Secretary of State .
5 . . It did n't get a very good in the book .
6 were ragging a dead fly in the grass
7 It would be an exaggeration to say I suffered from morning sickness , but my suspicions were certainly aroused when I began to feel a little queasy in the early part of the day .
8 Dispensing with the paths that snaked through half a dozen different garden realms , she brushed through the shrubbery , feeling a little wild in the wake of her primitive gesture .
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