Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I closed my eyes but seconds later there was a scream and the sound of crashing undergrowth ; Matata had found a snake curled up in the warm ash of the fire . |
| 2 | Shortly after their third visit a fight broke out in the street . |
| 3 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 4 | A light went on in the house opposite . |
| 5 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 6 | Williams made similar deductions following a study carried out in the United States . |
| 7 | A study carried out in the mid-1980s in a South London day hospital and in local day centres examined the ordinary , everyday needs and specific treatment requirements of attenders . |
| 8 | This search follows a study carried out in the refugee camps of Southeast Asia and supported by ESRC . |
| 9 | battery wrote in his journal during the peak of the March battle on the Right Bank ; ‘ the fine weather continues , the days lengthen ; it is a pleasure to get up in the morning … ’ |
| 10 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 11 | Outside , the bad dog recommenced barking rather savagely as a car drew up in the yard . |
| 12 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 13 | Then a car drew up in the courtyard and at the same time the telephone rang . |
| 14 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 15 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 16 | At one point a child calls out in the background . |
| 17 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 18 | Masklin supposed it was the machine 's equivalent of a nome getting up in the morning . |
| 19 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 20 | Erm I 've got a girl sitting down in the foyer . |
| 21 | Consider the case of a teacher brought up in the hard school where right answers were rewarded by praise and wrong answers by the cane . |
| 22 | They sat down in the road and , when the state police dragged them away , they threw jackrocks under the wheels of the ‘ scab ’ trucks ( a jackrock is a couple of sharpened nails welded together so that no matter which way they land , they always have a point sticking up in the air ) . |
| 23 | Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 24 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 25 | There was a brawl going on in the entrance , and two policemen were clamping handcuffs on a couple of young men who were causing the trouble . |
| 26 | and I was gon na go and apply for but then Neil he sent for me and just asked me , just told me there was a job come up in the office and if I wanted it |
| 27 | On Saturdays , during July and August , a discotheque opens up in the evenings . |
| 28 | She observes that the prisoner is following a prohibition laid down in the Old Testament , but that a rabbinical ruling had allowed Jews to eat in the camps on Yom Kippur in order to stay alive . |
| 29 | Hughes became the puzzled spectator of his own life , examining his own beleaguered existence like a tourist poking around in the ruins . |
| 30 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |