Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guests assembled in the Salle des Maréchaux , what Mme Moulton described as ‘ the Grand Salon ’ , and at nine o'clock a small procession entered consisting of the Court officers , all in their evening costume of blue with velvet collars , followed by several attendants and then , in the middle , the Emperor and Empress . |
| 2 | New pathways , giving a different level of description by spanning existing constituent pathways , can be added according to the knowledge bases ' rules . |
| 3 | Even if the couple got to the city before war began , it was unlikely that they would get out before the trains stopped running to the Channel ports . |
| 4 | Among the nine projects benefiting from this year 's grants were Southwark , which receives £29,555 to provide floodlighting at the Orchard Sports Centre and the London Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Scheme , which gets £25,000 . |
| 5 | Your denarius of Vespasian is designated according to the catalogue numbers : RSCV II 291 , BMC 28 , RIC 16b . |
| 6 | Recurrence in the three treatment groups ( Fig 4 ) — Of the 21 recurrences diagnosed according to the trial criteria , there were four in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated , six in the placebo , and 11 in the diet groups . |
| 7 | ‘ While we support the idea of lifting in the line-out — after the ball as been thrown in — we would not agree with the quick throw-in unless it is done according to the line-out rules ’ , said Rowlands . |
| 8 | ‘ On that bloody Russian rust bucket over there , ’ He waved his hand towards the ship 's superstructure which could be seen towering over the dock offices . |
| 9 | Now his lifesize copies of himself can be seen clambering over the school buildings . |
| 10 | But now Oxford City Council says grazing in the winter months is wrecking the land encouraging the spread of thistles and ragwort and threatening the rare species . |
| 11 | Joe came running through the plastic curtains waving a slip of paper and a handful of notes . |
| 12 | Please stop jumping on the chair arms will you ? |
| 13 | Recruitment took place in Bengal as well as in South India , and the remarkably comprehensive Murray 's Handbook pointed out to European travellers the stations where the migrants might be seen entraining for the tea plantations . |
| 14 | The morning sun came slanting through the corridor windows , making the airborne dust sparkle and filling the air with the scent of lavender floor wax . |
| 15 | The Hurricane lost it and flew round for five minutes , going down to 400 feet above the water to avoid appearing on the radar screens on nearby Italian-occupied islands . |
| 16 | Shortly afterwards Dudley tried to waylay Oliver after school , and was probably about to suggest meeting behind the bike sheds with knuckledusters at noon when Oliver punched him in the throat . |
| 17 | In its natural habitat , the plant grows trailing along the river banks or marshes . |
| 18 | Back in London , her name began appearing in the gossip columns . |
| 19 | At the rather more advanced end , our small community of postgraduate history students requires training in the computer methods and applications that are appropriate to historical research . |
| 20 | How far such resistance is possible varies according to the research methods employed but , generally speaking , we know more about the poor and the powerless than we do about the rich and the powerful . |
| 21 | GET VOTING FOR THE SCOUSE SUPERSTARS |
| 22 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 23 | I mean starting from the way children go to school in the morning — they expect their parents to take them quite often , and to contribute to pollution . |
| 24 | That out migration had generally been running according to the household projections , at something like two thousand per annum . |
| 25 | ‘ The valves are set according to the weather conditions , and the setting it was on was just enough to cause the tanker to leak slightly . |
| 26 | Several hours later Pask was found wandering in the University grounds wearing a floral skirt and bathing costume taken from his victim 's room . |
| 27 | Gradually whisk the juice into the double cream and continue whisking until the cream rethickens . |
| 28 | Consignments that are shipped according to the rule books are the exception rather than the rule . |
| 29 | He had come aboard at Kenora , he said , because the body of a groom from this train called Ricky had been found lying beside the railway lines near Thunder Bay . |
| 30 | Chiluba pledged to reduce spending on the security forces and to privatize loss-making parastatal organizations . |