Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |
| 2 | Life becomes crazy when I 'm recording Birds Of A Feather so I tend to organise working lunches and sit down in a restaurant to get my fuel . |
| 3 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 4 | Recruited for a tricky mission , he pinions a German plane under his own , crashes into a dam , floods a German base and goes out in a blaze of glory , having saved the British fleet from likely destruction . |
| 5 | If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal . |
| 6 | PARIS — The French Army , fatigued by khaki , is to get a new ‘ modular ’ uniform designed by Pierre Balmain and made up in a grey-blue colour known as Terre de France . |
| 7 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 8 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 9 | and fly off in a shower , airily |
| 10 | This will differ according to the richness of the environment provided by the home and the wider community , but all children live and grow up in a print-rich world full of writing and people who write . |
| 11 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 12 | ‘ Office girls were screaming uncontrollably and walking about in a daze with blood pouring from them , ’ said witness Helen Millican . |
| 13 | Now John Burnett found his good-natured and impressionable son falling under the spell of two far more intelligent men of dubious opinions , and caught up in a wild scheme for emigration to America . |
| 14 | Thus , once again , there is considerable potential for teachers to become confused between the relative demands of these two quite different approaches to moderation and caught up in a great deal of additional work . |
| 15 | The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time . |
| 16 | The best and longest-lasting tans are acquired slowly — quick tans are usually fast burns and peel off in a trice . |
| 17 | This nearly always results in drifting further back without much gain of height and ending up in a worse situation than before . |
| 18 | Flying through the sea breeze front without realising it is a common cause of inadvertently landing downwind and ending up in a hedge . |
| 19 | That 's what the law did four years ago when he was training to win his silver in Seoul and driving about in a car supplied by the British Olympic Association . |
| 20 | Our landing party found much evidence of recent occupation such as up-to-date papers and fresh food stocks , but no bodies , and wandered around in a kind of Marie Celeste situation for a while before finding a locked door . |
| 21 | Endill left the library and wandered about in a daze . |
| 22 | Jerkily she rose en pointe on one wooden leg and twisted round in a pirouette . |
| 23 | He duelled briefly with the Triplane , lost it , and came round in a wide , searching turn . |
| 24 | Flynn and his pals clean up Dodge only to feel suffocated by a town so decent it ai n't fit for a man to live in and head off in a joke finish for the still-wild Virginia City , which Flynn cleaned up in an unconnected follow-up . |
| 25 | Not only that , but one imagines such huts to be found in the very heart of the wilderness , where one can not ascend a peak and walk out in a single day , and must take shelter for the night . |
| 26 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 27 | It had seeped through his clothes and spread out in a half-circle , staining the grass and soaking into the sandy soil . |
| 28 | He let the towel drop and dug around in a drawer for some underwear . |
| 29 | Director PAUL VERHOEVEN tells EDWARD MURPHY about courting controversy and growing up in a nightmare , while KIM NEWMAN casts an eye over the overblown finished product |
| 30 | All these things make their own contribution and add up in a complex way . |