Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 times He 'll have good times Goin' oot on the randan But
2 His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life .
3 But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank .
4 My eyes shut , I could see that napkin fluttering down through the mushroom cloud .
5 Muir , omitted from the event last year after an administrative error , needed just 15 ends to help heal the wounds as he sent New Zealand 's Gary Lawson tumbling out of the championship .
6 There was a low-slung sofa with a faded loose cover ; a rocking-chair with canvas strips hanging out of the bottom ; and a broad oak table on metal castors .
7 ‘ John saw Ivor Horfitz 's son Jason hanging around outside the weighing-room at Newmarket yesterday and had a word with him . ’
8 At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD .
9 There was a guitar on the table , and a frilled black silk shirt hanging up behind the door .
10 The climbing was superb , with pitches of about Very Severe and many of the larger pebbles sticking out of the rock create great hand holds .
11 The surrounding countryside is windswept and rocky , moss-bedecked flints sticking out of the ground like primitive blades .
12 You can now stand the garter bar upright in the needle groove of your ribber , with the knitting hanging down between the ribber and the knitter .
13 There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor .
14 ‘ The beds are unmade and there are dirty knickers sticking out of the washing machine .
15 When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet .
16 Slowly , Fand leaned her forehead on the spear-shaft , fair hair raying out in the water .
17 He was close , his powerful , bare chest pressing up against the towelling of her robe ; she could almost feel the anger pumping around his body .
18 A roadside gate opposite admits to a field sloping down to the river ( no path ; no right of way so seek permission to visit ) where , in a wild and impressive setting , the Dee , here flowing in a deep ravine , leaps in a waterfall into a deep pool beneath a high canopy of trees .
19 There is a bench-lined sanctuary opening out of the west side of the Central Court , but without a throne and without an antechamber or en suite lustral basin .
20 By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park .
21 Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds .
22 After that , since she now spent as much time as possible on deck keeping out of the way of her cousins , with whom she felt a constraint , Ruth saw the woman for several days in a row .
23 She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back .
24 These punishments include having ‘ the throat cut across , the tongue torn out by the root ’ and being ‘ buried in the sand of the sea at low water … ’ — this explains why you tend to find heads sticking out of the beach who refuse to tell you that they 're up to .
25 Agnes is losing patience and revenue , I 've practically got my legs sticking out of the Boomerang window , when there 's this heavy handslap on the roof of the car .
26 And when he come into the pub he hears the village lads singing along with the machine and he has a go himself and gets to talking with everyone .
27 It was cold , too , an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall .
28 He could hear a car drawing up on the drive outside .
29 It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house .
30 As he reached for Steen 's hand , he heard a car drawing up outside the gates .
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