Example sentences of "[noun sg] and be [verb] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the littlest lads had heaved himself up onto the window-sill and was gazing out in rapture . |
| 2 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | The greasy impression made by the special typewriter ribbon or special pen rejects the water and takes the ink , and the positive image is ‘ offset ’ or transferred to a second roller and is picked up in reverse . |
| 4 | The messages are ordered alphabetically by error string and is laid out in the following way : — |
| 5 | Or she may be working on a rabbit and be boxed in in one direction while another ferret has backed one or more rabbits behind her . |
| 6 | It is like in a story such as the ballet Giselle when Alberic goes to her tomb and is caught up in a vision of her . |
| 7 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 8 | Though popular with his contemporaries , and a fine sportsman , gaining a tennis half-blue at Cambridge , Horne did not have a spectacular academic career and was sent down in December 1927 . |
| 9 | Other lesser interests and associations continued to exist but they were excluded from influence in crucial areas of public policy and were left out in the political cold . |
| 10 | A much easier alternative is to come here on a summer bank holiday weekend , join the queue and be winched down in a bosun 's chair courtesy of various caving clubs . |
| 11 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 12 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 13 | The original camouflage paint of my ex-army 109 FFR is starting to look a little tatty and is flaking off in places . |
| 14 | She had gained the opposite bank and was poking about in a great drifting mass of torn grass and brushwood . |
| 15 | Steve Warwick scored the second goal and was brought down in the area , enabling Alton to get their third in a 3–1 home win . |
| 16 | Cath trained as a nurse and was brought up in Lenzie . |
| 17 | The La Platense venture never lived up to its promise and was taken over in its entirety by the Dennys and Hendersons in 1885–6 . |
| 18 | The other worked as a ‘ runner ’ or delivery man , for a large dealer and was paid out in heroin to the tune of 2 grams a day which he began to consume . |