Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Rayne , standing on the stairs with his fingers idly drumming on the lid of a tin of Scottish shortbread , still looked as sleek as he had before the siege . |
| 2 | As the weeks passed she became accustomed to seeing Luke already at his desk when she arrived , immaculately suited , his dark head , with that one dramatic streak of white hair , perfectly groomed , his long , square-tipped fingers idly toying with a gold fountain-pen as he frowned over his mail . |
| 3 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
| 4 | Damages are assessed on the basis of the damage naturally arising from the breach and in the contemplation of the parties . |
| 5 | At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship . |
| 6 | They realised that with a car slowly sinking into the marsh there was not a minute to spare . |
| 7 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , in the hurly-burly of a busy existence it is likely that the next experience will occur ( rather like waves relentlessly breaking on the shore ) before there has been time to review . |
| 9 | The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) . |
| 10 | Sarajevo journalist Mensur Camo is one of the handful of journalists literally running around the city , dodging crossfire , to gather information . |
| 11 | There are over 600 multinationals in a ‘ billion-dollar-club ’ and a host of smaller fry all competing for a share of the market . |
| 12 | She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens . |
| 13 | ‘ The risk of drinkers inadvertently going over the limit is tragically high , ’ the report says . |
| 14 | Any loss naturally arising from the breach ; |
| 15 | The future Quaker abolitionist , James Cropper of Liverpool , accepted the necessity ‘ for a humble , dependent state of mind naturally arising from the knowledge of the superior wisdom and goodness of the will and ways of God to our own ’ and found gloom about the future banished . |
| 16 | I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court . |
| 17 | As Bloch has commented , ‘ To us accustomed to live with our eyes constantly turning to the clock , how remote from our civilization seems this society in which a court of law could not ascertain the time of day without discussion and inquiry ! ’ |
| 18 | They passed four months just wandering about the countryside , pitching their tent , swimming in the numberless ponds that are a feature of the land , and living off game they shot , chickens they snatched , and hand-outs from the rejoic-ing peasants . |
| 19 | But today the eyes were vibrant with an anticipatory light and Lady Merchiston sat up against her pillows , her glance alternately flicking to the window and following her companion as she moved about the room , tidying up . |
| 20 | The news has shocked a fashion industry already reeling from the recession . |
| 21 | Dugal Nisbet-Smith , director of the Newspaper Society , an organisation representing mainly English and Welsh provincial titles , has said 17.5 per cent VAT would be a catastrophe for an industry already reeling from the recession . |
| 22 | ULSTER drivers already reeling from the jump in the cost of motoring imposed by the Budget are facing another rise in car park charges . |
| 23 | She was sitting on the veranda , her ears still straining for a sound of the departing plane . |
| 24 | Riven pulled his cloak up about his neck , his bones aching and stiff and his legs still complaining about the horse between them . |
| 25 | Changing a magazine in mid-air was a major act of skill and daring , which involved climbing half out of the cockpit while flying the plane with one 's knees clamped on the joystick ; all the time with the enemy possibly circling for the kill . |
| 26 | Additional gravity data indicate that the overall excess mass of the Huntly 7 basic intrusion is small , the intrusion possibly extending to a depth of no more than 2 kilometres . |
| 27 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
| 28 | The success of Never Mind the Bollocks did nothing to heal the rift rapidly developing in the Sex Pistols camp , between McLaren and the group , and among the members of the group themselves . |
| 29 | She was caught without defences , her mind still playing with the idea of being his darling girl . |
| 30 | Her knees seemed to have turned to water , her mind still reeling under the impact of the devastating revelation which had just come to her . |