Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a result we had to regroup and go after them again in a big pincer movement . |
| 2 | With the exceptions of Teddy Taylor and John Biffen , of whom more in a moment , each one , because of the strength of his views , has had to eschew a ministerial career , although each would without doubt have made a distinguished holder of office . |
| 3 | ‘ And Zadkine referred to Modigliani 's unfinished heads , outside in the mud , most of them still in a rough stage . |
| 4 | He showed me photographs of them together in a boat there , on a beach , in a restaurant . |
| 5 | Allowing for parliamentary recesses , that adds up to between forty and forty-five Cabinet meetings a year — not a particularly significant statistic if more business is being taken in committees , of which more in a moment . |
| 6 | I only hope that you will never have to read this letter — not because my life is worth anything to me but because it breaks my heart to think of you alone in a world which I have found to be so harsh and unforgiving . |
| 7 | You 'll think of it again in a minute . |
| 8 | Or Er do n't forget , part of it especially in an exam , erm part of solving er any problem is , Oh , I know how to do this . |
| 9 | Celebrating the start of our once in a lifetime holiday in style by sipping rum punches on the open deck we watched the sun beginning to set before being escorted to our cabin . |
| 10 | Is it allegorical ( i.e. each character or event in the passage stands for something else in a parallel story ) ? |
| 11 | Chicken , I 'll be with thee again in a twinkling ; in the meantime observe the parson 's instructions , my little rosebud , observe " em I say . |
| 12 | The Sunday after they came back from the West Indies , he and Sara and his mother — who was living with them now in a room not much larger than a cupboard , although the view , as Simon constantly said , was staggering — went formally to lunch in their old house . |
| 13 | I 'll catch up with you again in a few minutes . |
| 14 | They 'll be with you again in a day or two , if you do n't hold us up . |
| 15 | Stanley has sex with her not in a loving way but in a hurtful and spiteful one . |
| 16 | I could have done with a bit of support from you once in a while . |
| 17 | Delegation is certainly not handing the job over to someone else in a casual way and simply muttering ‘ there you are , get on with it ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I will speak to you again in a moment , Madame . |
| 19 | I send them to you now in a pill-box wrapped close in paper that they may n't chink . |
| 20 | He raised his head and smiled to her again in a curious way , his eyes seeming to be laughing at her . |
| 21 | And she stared too at her own friends , who appeared to her suddenly in a new light , laughing and fiddling with their luggage labels , and casting their eyes around them as though unbalanced by the sudden variety of choice . |
| 22 | When I was in hospital , one of the things I said to Terry was : ‘ If they want my breast , I 'm gon na ask for it back in a jar ! ’ |
| 23 | Thinking about it carefully in a practical way rather than just muddling through makes a great deal of difference in coping successfully day by day . |
| 24 | But with Son being here , talking about it once in a while when she gets a bit down , and do n't we all — well , I feel like it all happened last week , and what 's more as if I was in the middle of it . |
| 25 | What is interesting is that Burton was prepared to talk about it publicly in a way which implied that he had sexual problems before this date . |
| 26 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 27 | But look at them once in a while . |
| 28 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
| 29 | He looked at her then in a strange and thoughtful way , and she felt it was with approval . |
| 30 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |