Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tsu Ma went across and stood there , one foot resting lightly on the tiled lip of the well as he looked back across the valley towards the south . |
| 2 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 3 | Struggling into yet another of the brief garments bought for her by Ross — her trembling fingers fumbling awkwardly with the small scraps of material — Laura dearly wished that she had the courage to chicken out of the whole affair . |
| 4 | At a friend 's studio she posed , head on one side and delicate long fingers hanging languidly from the enveloping sleeves of her home-made gown . |
| 5 | However , single-person households with , for example , an income consisting only of a single person 's state pension are much more likely to be found in the older age groups than in the younger ones . |
| 6 | ‘ There must be ! ’ she wailed , her eyes darting everywhere in a vain hope that there was somewhere she could go . |
| 7 | He turned , his eyes resting momentarily upon the dim , grey shape of the funerary couch . |
| 8 | Beggars , when you give them money , bless you and wish you good luck , a gold tooth flashing surprisingly in a dusky smile suddenly lighting a dirty face . |
| 9 | There is no buccal capsule , the mouth consisting simply of a small opening surrounded by three lips . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's my fault , ’ he said later when she was sitting up , her eyes gazing blankly at the opposite wall . |
| 11 | The force of this moral authority becomes clearer when discussions within the Association touching specifically upon the pedagogic uses of literature and indeed language are considered . |
| 12 | He led her up to the bedrooms , the floors and stairs wooden , fans whirring overhead in the steamy heat , mosquito netting over every door and window . |
| 13 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 14 | Verb-phrase anaphora occurs when a verb-phrase depends for its interpretation on another verb-phrase occurring earlier in the spoken or written discourse . |
| 15 | She waited , the cold stone of the wall pushed up hard against her breasts , her knees pushing downward into the soft , moist loam , while they unfastened the rope about her arms . |
| 16 | She pulled open the bathroom door and hurried through the atrium , her heels tapping swiftly against the mosaic floor . |
| 17 | There 's a club meeting here for a social weekend — I think they like to keep their places warm here for when coarse fishing starts again . |
| 18 | Cranston , craning his neck , followed the words forming quickly in the blue-green ink . |
| 19 | In addition there may be one or two smaller papillae lying slightly below the oral papillae series between the first and second or the second and third and papillae . |
| 20 | The very wide shoulders narrowing sharply to a slim hip on a longer jacket was the biggest influence on menswear at the time and he took the world by storm . |
| 21 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 22 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes of course , ’ said Taliesin , his eyes going also to the motionless figure , because it was certainly unthinkable that they should leave Fergus like this , in the middle of a dark old mansion at the heart of an ancient forest . |
| 24 | She looked up sharply , her eyes going immediately to the far shore and to the house on the crest above the cove . |
| 25 | Except for the ansaphone buzzing , and the vibration on the floor of his assailant moving rapidly towards the french windows , to make good an escape down the back way . |
| 26 | What was absorbing him so deeply , I realize as I go by , was the sight of his own living-room , with the curtains innocently open , and his wife and Millie moving silently about the bright world inside . |
| 27 | Replaying the sequence he realized that Ivy had braked hard , the car swerving slightly on the greasy surface , then backed up . |
| 28 | The navigation lights were switched off but I could see the Cessna Skywagon flying steadily in the cold air . |
| 29 | Sure enough , a sparkling line of firelight was twitching its way up the hill , the red gleam of flame shifting constantly in the slight breeze , and disappearing now and again as the marchers tracked up or down slopes in the road . |
| 30 | Since AT&T is one of the few major U.S. corporations not to have cut its arts funding significantly over the past year , it is likely that many more museums will tailor exhibition proposals to fit the firm 's thematic guidelines . |