Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also in New Guinea are sympatric birds of paradise apparently dealing with fruit in a similar way , staying in the trees for only a few minutes , perhaps through fear of predators . |
| 2 | The DIY business has been fiercely competitive with Do-It-All , B&Q and Texas all battling for supremacy through price cuts and heavy advertising . |
| 3 | The new method involves candidates literally wrestling for power in a knockout tournament . |
| 4 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 5 | Continue along the coast soon keeping to left of lighthouse buildings at St Abb 's Head ; briefly join lighthouse road , but it is best almost immediately to divert off it to rejoin cliff-top for sea views . |
| 6 | Preoccupied with her own thoughts , and her mind still whirling with confusion from everything that had happened last night , Jessamy did n't hear the car draw up outside ; did n't hear the front door open and then quietly close again . |
| 7 | For a while Sheila Williams sat quite motionless , her large , brown eyes gradually moistening like pavements in a sudden shower . |
| 8 | Could there really be a building site in the middle of this swamp rapidly reverting to nature after a brief and unsuccessful flirtation with civilization , Zen wondered ? |
| 9 | He did not attempt the removal of the pyjama jacket , but suddenly stood up and began to pull the red trousers down and get them off ; and it seemed that Patrick , shifting very slightly , assisted the operation , his eyes now moving in awareness of what Marcus was doing . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to thee Thedric , ’ she moaned quietly , her lips quivering and her eyes now brimming with tears as the good Lewis laid a hand on the pristine-white plaster encasing her upper arm . |
| 11 | The court declined to adopt what it described as ‘ the geographic fiction ’ that discovery required mere acts of preparation abroad , and found the distinction between parties and non-parties equally lacking in merit as a basis for decision . |
| 12 | ‘ But you 're entitled , Mrs Neumann , ’ Zvi Lipsky insisted , his watery eyes almost overflowing with frustration at finding someone evidently intent on undermining his whole function as Hon. Treasurer of the Board . |
| 13 | Wh what , why how , how is this industrialization programme then working in terms of eventual collectivization ? |
| 14 | But the famous Bongs ! will have a hollow ring for millions of soccer fans anxiously waiting for news of their teams . |
| 15 | Lucky I can look after myself ’ — ADRI GELDENHUYS ( Eastern Province lock currently playing for Tarbes in France ) on French club rugby . |
| 16 | ONE OF two sprawling films ( Heimat being the other ) that marked Germany finally coming to terms with the war , relatively free of guilt . |
| 17 | Did you say something about Mr Boulez perhaps returning to work at the opera ? |
| 18 | Grandparents were observed supporting parents , the other parent usually remaining at home for work or family reasons . |
| 19 | Every year there was a big noisy carnival with its ghost trains and chairoplanes , and yet matrons with shallow baskets did sociable shopping excursions usually ending with coffee in Marine Road and tut-tutting over the state of the borough . |
| 20 | She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad . |
| 21 | Place in gallery with no windows and visitors everywhere looking at pictures on walls and it is something else . |
| 22 | Ms Kate Noble , Support Services Co-ordinator for Age Concern in this area wrote to the Parish Council recently asking for assistance in identifying needs of older people in the rural areas and ways in which those needs could be met by Age Concern . |
| 23 | More than usually generous credit terms may have to be offered , and although we did not allow for introductory discounts in our example , these may have to be offered to induce custom , with the degree of generosity perhaps varying by assessment of likelihood of payment and repeat orders . |
| 24 | Again , the 103/4 conveyed a perfectly tangible image , with the sound literally hanging in space in the room . |
| 25 | His early days underground working alongside miners on the coal-face have imbued him with a special rapport with the thousands of miners he now oversees as chairman of British Coal . |
| 26 | Around £150 for family holidays , allowing for a few days reasonably riding as part of the package . |
| 27 | There were so many human stories , retold movingly by Uncle Fred as he came home in the evening after searching for employment for another batch of DPs . |
| 28 | For instance , I remember him back at Troon eleven years later going from bunker to bunker at the postage Stamp like a lost man — — at the same time as Gene Sarazen got a hole-in-one there . |
| 29 | THE Government is being urged to appoint an independent commission on the future of Scottish local government , similar to the body now looking at councils in England and Wales . |
| 30 | And then , as the flaming ball rose from the sea , the gears of time slipped , went into reverse and he was back only five days ago lying with Amy in the deep hollow of the dunes , smelling again the scent of sand and grasses and the salt tang of the sea as the late afternoon warmth drained out of the autumn air . |