Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 2 | It was n't just the sustained rumbling growls rising to a frenzy as two dogs threatened each other then lunged together in a bitter embrace , each asserting its place in the hierarchy , the priority of its rights over the red bitch . |
| 3 | After his death his " rock band " disappeared and was last seen , rumour says , broken and tumbled together in an old wash-house . |
| 4 | Though outnumbered the Nez Perce fought valiantly in a gallant but vain attempt to reach Canada and to find sanctuary . |
| 5 | The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage . |
| 6 | I had , for the previous fifteen years , enjoyed the privilege of living in a Christian community where the charismatic question had been a lively issue , and where ‘ charismatic ’ and ‘ non-charismatic ’ ordinands lived together in a high degree of mutual trust and love . |
| 7 | The four of them — Simenon , Denyse ( re-named Denise ) , Tigy and Boule — lived together in an exhausting menage a quatre until Denise became pregnant and Simenon demanded a divorce . |
| 8 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 9 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 10 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 11 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 12 | A dog whined somewhere in a hold . |
| 13 | They 're still impressive , with the chimney , flues , dressing floors and the remnants of the smelting hearths clustered together in a valley whose sides are covered with heaps of spoil . |
| 14 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 15 | Tamo ash is apparently a very rare , highly figured wood found only in a small region of Japan . |
| 16 | His later years were devoted largely to charitable work , to which he contributed much in an unostentatious manner . |
| 17 | They moved together in a dance as old as time until finally Travis slid between her parted thighs , hands going to her hips to hold her tightly against him and feel his desire . |
| 18 | It is as though , in literary terms , the peasant world , defined by neo-realism , and the disembodied , technocratic environments of the neo-avant-garde had been lifted out of their historical context and plastered together in a sharply disjunctive collage . |
| 19 | Tamar 's brows drew together in a frown . |
| 20 | Jonadab 's lips set in a straight line and his brows drew together in a frown . |
| 21 | Madeleine 's brows drew together in a scowl . |
| 22 | His eyebrows drew together in a frown . |
| 23 | His brows drew together in a sudden spasm of irritation . |
| 24 | Luke 's eyebrows drew together in a thunderous bar . |
| 25 | Her brows drew together in a formidable frown . |
| 26 | His brows drew together in a frown . |
| 27 | All manometry tracings and radionucleide transit curves were coded and analysed together in a blinded fashion after the study was closed . |
| 28 | When she had chosen the least remarkable and staggered downstairs in a pair of high-heeled purple boots the others got their revenge by wheezing about the room in hysterics once more . |
| 29 | Three hundred feet the down rose vertically in a stretch of no more than six hundred — a precipitous wall , from the thin belt of trees at the foot to the ridge where the steep flattened out . |
| 30 | I followed his gesture over the buried walls , across the narrow roadway between the ploughed-out snow dunes to where the fell rose steeply in a sweep of broken white to join the leaden sky . |