Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another officer was called , and I was carried away , with much clanking of keys , eventually to find myself in a small room , where I was dumped in a negligent way on a table . |
| 2 | They eventually found themselves in a huge square where a white marble fountain played in the centre . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , again , as though it were the most reasonable thing in the world , but she saw that her mother looked worried , and that doubtless Papa was behaving as he did because he had been worried about her , his darling , whom he had sent away from him , only to lose her in a foreign country — for that was what Britain was . |
| 4 | THE story goes that many centuries ago some fishermen in the South China Sea were driven north by a typhoon , but were fortunate enough to find themselves in a splendid natural harbour protected by a large island . |
| 5 | Perhaps imagine yourself in a cosy armchair , gazing into a log fire , stroking the cat on your lap and sipping a glass of dandelion wine . |
| 6 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 7 | Although a managing director will usually be an employee the courts sensibly view him in a different light from that of a manual worker . |
| 8 | Above all remember that you are selling yourself , so present yourself in a confident fashion but without boasting . |
| 9 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 10 | God knows , I have little enough to give her in a worldly sense . |
| 11 | The verderers ' familiarity with the district from earlier years could only serve them in a general way , for the woodland paths varied from season to season . |
| 12 | Neutral tones give a feeling of space , so use them in a small room that needs opening up |
| 13 | This is not to evade questions of strategy and tactics , merely to place them in an appropriate context . |
| 14 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 15 | At the city 's Royal Hallamshire Hospital , consultant David Gawkrodger said her illness — toxic epidermal necrolysis — only strikes one in a million people . |
| 16 | Even if you only buy one in a whole year , we will still be happy to give you all the benefits of Vevay membership |
| 17 | Most dogs come from warm , dry , quiet houses and to suddenly find themselves in a noisy , cold , wet concrete kennels is unkind . |
| 18 | You do n't take me up on anything — you just repeat it in a different order . |
| 19 | Yet the magical city had not yet finished with me , for I somehow found myself in a dark little wood-panelled bar , with a cosy snug in the rear , and a counter near the door left over from the pub 's grocery-bar days at the turn of the century . |
| 20 | He could quite easily accomplish it in a public place of that sort because everyone 's attention is drawn away from the area where you were sitting . |
| 21 | Kim soon found herself in a tiny tenement flat . |
| 22 | Rural tenants — principally farm workers — meanwhile found themselves in a vicious circle of deprivation . |
| 23 | There is a moral here for some of the older spectator sports , wondering how best to sell themselves in a gimmicky TV age . |
| 24 | Otherwise I will just do it in a different colour , a different |
| 25 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 26 | He 'd much sooner keep it in an old pair of tights . ’ |
| 27 | Okay now she 's off really quickly on a reach but she 's oversheeted , she 's got too much power there , she 's sheeting the sail in instead of easing it out until it flaps and then just pulling it in a little . |
| 28 | I ca n't somehow see him in a red riding coat being winched aboard a dappled stallion . |
| 29 | Could just see it in a Trivial Pursuit question |
| 30 | To be a recipient is normally to put oneself in a subordinate position . |