Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the door , Mother Bombie 's feet in soft felt slippers could be heard slapping angrily down the stairs . |
| 2 | LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available . |
| 3 | The ground around Bilbao rises to over 2,000 feet , and our route involved flying just above the tops of nearby hills . |
| 4 | You heard of Indian Agents if they were very good , like John Clum , or if they were bad and got caught dealing poorly with the Indians for their own personal gain . |
| 5 | More film roles are expected to come rolling in after the Oscars on 29 March , although Thompson claims she is a no-hoper for glamorous parts . |
| 6 | He did n't expect us to come rolling out of the pubs drunk , and the Yorkshire pudding to get flung at the ceiling with the gravy running down the walls like the tears of a black madonna . |
| 7 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 8 | ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’ |
| 9 | The sound it made rustling outside in the trees made him feel comfortable and protected . |
| 10 | And , every twenty minutes or so , a storm broke : thunder rumbled , lightning flickered , and tropical rain came crashing down from the showerheads fitted in the ceiling . |
| 11 | She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once . |
| 12 | After being seen whizzing out of the doors of a rink , he had to skate at speed along a footpath of the common , round a spiral pedestrian walkway , on to a road , grab the back of a passing bus , let go , cut across a main road between cars coming in both directions , go across another road — between the wheels of a moving articulated lorry — and end up in a babywear shop , somersaulting into a cot . |
| 13 | A midwinter day … the wind to the north , the sky in rags , hail whipping in from the islands in dark squalls . |
| 14 | Mr Tate said although they felt quite safe on the eighth floor it was disconcerting to see armed security guards and smoke bellowing up through the skyscrapers . |
| 15 | Otley came tearing back down the stairs white as a sheet and put the mug of cocoa down on the table . |
| 16 | ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman . |
| 17 | Hotspur put up a hand to the furred collar of his cloak , and let it slide from his shoulders ; and like a silent and attentive valet the girl came gliding out of the shadows and took it from him . |
| 18 | They challenged a man who was seen acting suspiciously at a horses ' rest home near their RAF base . |
| 19 | Spread filling right to the edges . |
| 20 | Yet around the time that Servan-Schreiber was receiving his first royalty cheques , oriental faces could be seen popping up behind the walls at the Isle of Man TT races . |
| 21 | The sound of singing came drifting up from the quays below . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's him , then , all gone , ’ Gloria said , before a nurse came scurrying out through the doors , took her by the arm and led her back into the ward . |
| 23 | Never , since he was a child , had he missed coming up to the Foinmen on Beltane . |
| 24 | There , suspended just above the domes and minarets of the old city , a perfect silver crescent could be seen shining out over the rooftops . |
| 25 | One Tory MP was seen coming out of the Whips ' office in tears before last night 's vote . |
| 26 | The only reliable way to see them was to pass in front of the building and turn left into the road to the cemetery : from that side some of them could be seen craning out of the windows and waving . |
| 27 | Eight of the men came running out of the trees and heaved at the sides of the lorry . |
| 28 | Then he loped away as a hound came running silently through the trees , nose to the ground , scenting slowly . |
| 29 | There was a yell , and then Burun came trotting back through the trees . |
| 30 | Finally she dived through the alley by the Revuebar and into the market on Berwick Street , a drab thoroughfare enlivened by a sudden riot of colour in the narrow sunlight that came slanting down between the buildings — the yellow awnings over the stalls , the bright shades of new fruit , the brilliant white of new cardboard . |