Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must be quiet ; they must not hear my heart thumping or my involuntary gasp . |
| 2 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |
| 3 | She twirled and swayed around the room in a slow dance , her skirt billowing and her long hair shining beneath the bright lights . |
| 4 | Gina recoiled , her mind spinning as his blue eyes , brilliant and intense beneath brows drawn together in thoughtful consideration , travelled over her astonished face . |
| 5 | I am cynical enough to suspect that it probably happens , and it vividly illustrates the point about equipment improving while its net effectiveness stands still ( and its costs increase ) . |
| 6 | The Second Report in 1955 ( HMSO 1955 ) was more optimistic , with the Committee stating that its earlier recommendations had had some influence over employers . |
| 7 | She felt reckless and more alive than she had for months , her own desire rising as his hungry mouth fell on her breasts like a starving child , and his eager hands tore at her clothes . |
| 8 | This is n't a case of writers bleating because their own books wo n't be available ; we all spent hours in libraries learning our trade , the only way to learn to write is to how it 's done by other people be it well or badly |
| 9 | But she 'd spoken a different baby language from her husband , the Colonel : a kind of upper-class malay with thirty different words for ‘ you ’ and ‘ me ’ , depending on the grade of the person speaking and their mutual relationship , that kind of thing . |
| 10 | I wa I want you to tell me if what is Johnson saying that his particular comedy of humours this play is doing ? |
| 11 | But there is no reason why the doctrine of justice actually reflected by the constitutional arrangements of a state may not be reached as a result of people realizing that their different ideals of the good , each leading to a different doctrine of justice , can not be implemented because of the widespread disagreement in society concerning their value . |
| 12 | Ovum and spermatozoon will now fuse together as one cell , the nuclei combining and their chromosomal contents re-arranging themselves in their pairs . |
| 13 | Both were time served joiners , Brian Linighan insisting that his talented sons learned a trade too . |
| 14 | Moreover , during the badal diet breath CH 4 concentrations increased in responders duggesting that their usual diet contained enough sulphate for sulphate reducing bacteria to reduce the amount of hydrogen available to methanogens , whilst on the sulphate depleted basal diet more hydrogen could be used for methanogenesis . |
| 15 | The reverse is true for men , however , with a smaller proportion of working-class men marrying than their upper-class contemporaries . |
| 16 | And no sooner was he inside when he heard Mrs Brown singing that her true love had sent four calling birds three french hens two turtle doves not to mention another partridge in a pear tree . |
| 17 | I know many reading this must feel as I feel : torn between the raw genius of Morrissey 's Smiths writing and his latest batch of tunes , which I personally feel very much cheated by . |
| 18 | A chef in Saratoga Springs exasperated by a difficult customer complaining that his french fries were not sliced thinly enough cut the potatoes paper thin ; the irony was that the customer enjoyed the delicacy so much he asked for more and thus crisps were born . |
| 19 | And when the stars ' faces filled the whole screen so that you saw their huge lips close up like big pillows moving and their great teeth and their smooth matt skin filling the whole screen , it was frightening . |
| 20 | He wrote to his insurance company claiming that his personal liability policy covered him against any possible damages . |
| 21 | He kept his eyes fixed on the crest of the hill over which she would appear freewheeling down on her bicycle , black hair streaming and her long skirt ballooning out on either side like a bat 's wings . |
| 22 | Mitzi was immediately conscious of pain and seconds later of the table upturning and its entire contents spreading themselves across the parquet . |
| 23 | Such an elegant and delicate little salad with its walnuts and its lemon dressing and its fresh lettuce base and its morsels of white fowl-flesh . |
| 24 | She knew it must hurt her mother thinking that her only daughter was living with a man , a man , moreover , that she did n't like . |
| 25 | A kind of downward spiral results , the kids growing progressively more pessimistic about their chances , their hopes plummeting and their general postures making it more difficult for them to get jobs . |