Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also during this year Captain H.M. Williams was selected to command the 1 st Bucks team of sixty men , to compete for a prize offered by Lord Wantage for field firing at the Home Counties Brigade Camp at Churn , and of this team ( which won the competition ) thirty-two were Wolverton men . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's quite a bit happening in the IT services area here . |
| 3 | All the ‘ ins and outs ’ are logged in a large collection of files which , when glancing through , look like a history of British aviation , with such names as British Aircraft Co , Fairey Aviation , Fields Aviation , Gloster Aircraft Co appearing in the purchasing ledgers . |
| 4 | And no , that 's not the wind wailing round the library windows . |
| 5 | Mail relating to the mail messages for the current user , the New figure shows the number of unread mail messages and the Old figure shows the number of mail messages which are still retained in LIFESPAN but which have already been printed or read by the user . |
| 6 | SHOPPERS need have no fear walking under the glass roofs of shopping centres in spite of reports of shattered panes injuring bystanders , a spokesman for The Forge shopping centre said in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 7 | Great pillars of stone swept up to a roof that seemed an infinity away , sunlight was pouring through the stained glass and falling through space to the floor below , and in one of the side chapels a group of French nuns were singing the Angelus by candlelight , their voices weaving round the stone pillars and the shafts of dark and light . |
| 8 | Bobbing at anchor are thousands of vessels ranging from the trading ships of the merchant princes to the fanciful pleasure barges of the people of Lothern and the sleek , deadly warships of the High Elf fleet . |
| 9 | Clean the test tube , add the right amount of chemical according to the textbook instructions , heat it up , watch the colour change on the litmus paper , a straightforward sequence of steps that has been performed by thousands before us and will be repeated by as many after . |
| 10 | Every sound seemed a potential threat — the wind rustling in the pine trees , the flapping of a startled bird 's wings , the jackals ' baleful howling as they patiently awaited the abandoned carcass . |
| 11 | The tides surging through the coral heads charge the water with oxygen and the tropical sun warms it and fills it with light . |
| 12 | Her eyes are mud-coloured ; her eyes changed hue according to the contact lenses she wore ; he never looked her in the eye . |
| 13 | Guy Sterne would be about as much fun to be with as one of the barracuda swimming in the coral reefs around the island . |
| 14 | In my discussions with the regional councils for sport and recreation — There is a football hooligan shouting from the Opposition Benches — |
| 15 | When Swayne stopped speaking small sounds reached them from the street : a woman 's heels tapping on the paving stones , a snatch of conversation from the people opposite … |
| 16 | The unfurnished rent for a bedroom looking through the tree tops to Wilton Place , a long-windowed living room overlooking Hyde Park , and access to my own flat roof , was £2 per week in those halcyon days . |
| 17 | It is not difficult to tell from casual chat at court who does what and after dealing with a few claims you soon get to know who is on the other side acting for the insurance companies . |
| 18 | An alternative approach is to define words according to the sentence contexts in which they occur . |
| 19 | We do not think that reduced fetal growth is associated with death from cardiovascular disease merely through an association with adverse influences acting in the adult lives of people of low social class . |
| 20 | In aircraft ranging from the Lippisch deltas to Horten sailplanes and the more recent hang gliders , the wing profile or aerofoil is twisted from a positive angle at the centreline to negative at the wingtips . |
| 21 | Which particular pathway a cell follows is usually controlled by extracellular signals acting at the branch points . |
| 22 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |
| 23 | The snow adhering to the car windows created a sepulchral gloom inside , and Robyn spent several minutes brushing it off before she attempted to start the engine . |
| 24 | From the moment you bruise your thighs clambering into the bucket seats and flick the engine into life , it 's clear that compromises are out . |
| 25 | It was quite funny yesterday , because , he , when I went out in the garden there was a football nestling in the rose bushes , I heaved it back over the fence , thirty seconds later the two boys came roaring out of the house , and about thirty seconds after that |
| 26 | The lands and castles belonging to the Taillefer Counts of Angoulême and their vassals at Jarnac , Bouteville , Archiac , Barbezieux and Montignac , as well as Angoulême itself , lay across the roads which linked the centres of ducal power at Poitiers and Saintes with Bordeaux . |
| 27 | Pale , bulbous knobs of fungi clinging to the tree trunks exuded a sticky scent and a faint suggestion of phosphorescence . |
| 28 | Along the broken kerb of the road stood a line of taxis , their drivers dozing in the back seats with their legs dangling out of the open doors . |
| 29 | One of the biggest potential costs is the building of under-road ducting for the speed sensors . |
| 30 | Bono tells me that before Ireland received TOTP fans flocking to the dance halls thought that the showbands actually were Slade , Sweet , Mud … |