Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in some measure propped up by a crimson tea-caddy , also of Japan ware . |
| 2 | The distribution of frequencies in this ‘ microwave background ’ is just like the distribution of frequencies given off by a hot gas . |
| 3 | I caught a glimpse of JCBs grazing in the adjoining field like a group of hybrid giraffes ; and was that a dumper truck with its shell tipped up like a rutting tortoise ? |
| 4 | That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance . |
| 5 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 6 | Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way . |
| 7 | He was lounging on the sofa when she returned to the house , his long legs propped up on a low onyx table , while he flicked his way desultorily through the pages of a paperback . |
| 8 | Lissa drew her robe around herself in a protective gesture , her mind frozen over like a bleak winter landscape . |
| 9 | The most recent substantial piece of work on public library stock logistics is described in Tony Houghton 's Bookstock management in public libraries ( 1985 ) , again work based upon actual research carried out in a public library system . |
| 10 | She wore an oatmeal flannel coat and skirt which even Alexandra could see was badly cut , and a heavily pleated cream blouse , the collar fastened with a huge hideous brooch made out of a green polished pebble set in silver . |
| 11 | In the centre was the ironing-board made out of an old table covered with a blanket and a sheet . |
| 12 | John asked , lips drawn back in a sarcastic sneer . |
| 13 | Martin charging down on Dobson ; Martin , eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl ; Martin , arm raised and baton coming down again and again on Dobson 's head ; Martin , growling savagely at the yobs , daring them to interfere ; Martin , turing angrily as the sergeant pulled the baton from his hand ; finally , Martin , white and shaking , as he looked down disbelievingly at the unconscious Dobson . |
| 14 | For a long time he remained motionless like this , his body arched backward , his teeth clenched , his lips drawn back in a silent rictus of ecstatic agony . |
| 15 | She was still in a state of shock , her eyes locked on to an imaginary spot in the centre of the windscreen . |
| 16 | To my left , steps led up to a hummocky cliff edge , on which reposed the fragmented remains of a Franciscan friary . |
| 17 | " To bed , " she said decisively , " I 'll have some tea sent up in a little while . " |
| 18 | PS I do n't think you should marry that young man in the back row of the chorus , it 's too soon after going to bed with your horse dressed up as a Praetorian Guard . |
| 19 | The result was that when impatience to reach out to the peasantry boiled over into a significant movement in the early 1870s there was minimal planning and organization . |
| 20 | The Oldham Stock Exchange developed out of a new class of capitalists not portrayed in the industrial scenarios of Marx and Engels . |
| 21 | I have always wanted a dining room under glass , so we are having a conservatory built along with a super , big kitchen complete with labour-saving appliances , including a microwave , which I find particularly good for cooking fish ; I do n't believe in ‘ sweatshop ’ kitchens . |
| 22 | ‘ A very good evening to you , dottore ! ’ the boy called out in a bad parody of a Venetian accent . |
| 23 | It was nearly dark , but in the half-light you could just make out four or five women fussing around a surprisingly elderly-looking girl trussed up in a red Rajasthani costume . |
| 24 | With a spreadsheet set up on a personal computer , this requires very little time to calculate and provides a direct guide to strategies concerned with cost leadership . |
| 25 | For a girl brought up in a Christian Science home there was a certain frightening kind of excitement about medicine , like drink for a teetotaller ; but otherwise she found the work harrowing and repellent . |
| 26 | Lots of Union Jacks waved out of a race-day crowd of 500,000 . |
| 27 | She was referred to the town 's main fire station where he met sub-officer John Yoxall and had the bracket cut off with a small hacksaw . |
| 28 | Most of us agree that it would be handy to turn the loft into a bedroom , or have a conservatory tacked on to an outside wall , but can you imagine what it must be like living in a church , a factory or a windmill ? |
| 29 | The process begun under Edward I was continued in July 1333 when , at Halidon Hill , outside Berwick , the English showed that they had learned to coordinate the use of ‘ traditional ’ cavalry with the ‘ new ’ archer force , the combination on this occasion being that of archers and dismounted men-at-arms drawn up in a defensive position which showed what successes a measure of flexibility could bring to an army led by men willing to experiment . |
| 30 | The charity already has plans drawn up for a ten-bed hospice at Middlesbrough to care for terminally ill people and contractors are currently submitting tenders for the work . |