Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 2 | Her heart tumbling about like a circus clown , and suddenly breathless , she said , ‘ I thought you were out . ’ |
| 3 | A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush . |
| 4 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 5 | In contrast walking slowly into a room may indicate reticence or apprehension . |
| 6 | It was like the scene where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid start to rob yet another ‘ easy ’ train only to find an armed and mounted posse leaping out of a carriage . |
| 7 | Minnis decided to do something for others who might similarly be afflicted which resulted in the Kenilworth Club and the PGL contributing annually to a fund . |
| 8 | There were two black entertainers banging away at a piano . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 10 | In truth the TV realisation of Poet 's Corner , Westminster Abbey was nothing more than a photographic blow-up , and the monster just the latex-coated hands of writer Nigel Kneale sticking out through a hole in the picture . |
| 11 | Next morning , as Wemmick and I walked back to London , I noticed his face becoming dryer and harder , and his mouth becoming more like a post-box again . |
| 12 | I 'm sneaking a moment on deck before breakfast , feeling limp and watching a heron gliding around like a poker with a crick in its neck , when there 's a North country whisper behind me . |
| 13 | Jonathon is a trained musician filling in as a cleaner between jobs and he fell on his feet at the Oxford Playhouse . |
| 14 | I remember the white snow splashing up like a wave . ’ |
| 15 | Tolonen stared at him a moment , nodding , his lips pressed tightly together , his earnest grey eyes looking out from a face carved like granite . |
| 16 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 17 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 18 | Well , seem funny a boxer going around with a tail wo n't it ? |
| 19 | His face was open and honest and smiled readily , the generous mouth turning upwards into a handlebar moustache . |
| 20 | We spotted our first reindeer lying down in a hollow by the roadside some distance ahead and , as I had a telephoto lens on the camera , the others encouraged me to have a go at stalking it . |
| 21 | Potted shrubs of sombre green flanked a flight of broad , shallow rockfoam steps leading down to a doorway covered by thick curtains of the darkest purple . |
| 22 | She felt as if she were sinking deeper and deeper in her own panic , her whole consciousness going down into a quicksand while her body stood there , stupid with fear . |
| 23 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 24 | The sight of the brigade turning out to a call , pulled by magnificent black horses , drew every child within half a mile of the Works main gates when the warning hooter sounded . |
| 25 | In the 68th minute the huge Musselburgh contingent in the crowd went wild when McMillan broke up the blindside and sent winger Craig Ramsey racing in for a try to put his side 14-10 up . |
| 26 | This begins with the figure impinging powerfully from a distance , in this case as one walks into St Martin 's at Landshut , more powerfully than other things in the field of view . |
| 27 | Either course of action leads to a constricted ledge and , to its right , a horizontal break leading out to a stance on the crest of Froggatt Pinnacle — yes , a two-pitch out-crop route ! |
| 28 | drain like light going out of a landscape . |
| 29 | Most fieldwork is simply episodic , made by an outsider moving in for a period to assess observed social behaviour . |
| 30 | She received the watch and chain from the pawnbroker 's daughter , together with the new pawn ticket and fivepence , and went off in a pleasured state over the transaction , although a little worried that Queen Mary might find out that her naughty niece wanted to show her legs riding bareback on a circus horse . |