Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each papilla arising entirely from a single area is represented by the letter m . |
| 2 | Russell turned to Dexter with a look of surprise and irritation , as if he were a complete stranger butting in on a private conversation — which indeed was just how the sergeant felt . |
| 3 | He was young and very beautiful ; brown hair springing back from a broad forehead , blue eyes dark as pansies , a smooth , curling , sulky mouth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His face was open and honest and smiled readily , the generous mouth turning upwards into a handlebar moustache . |
| 6 | Jonathon is a trained musician filling in as a cleaner between jobs and he fell on his feet at the Oxford Playhouse . |
| 7 | Course , they had n't had lorries in them days , they drive them on the road and you see old shepherd coming along with a couple of dogs and goodness knows how many sheep ! |
| 8 | It is hard sometimes to look at an old person sitting passively in a chair and imagine them running around , bringing up babies , managing an office , driving a lorry , getting into trouble with the law , being a pillar of the local community , fighting a war . |
| 9 | HEALTH fears over raw sewage washing up on a Fife beach have resulted in one local authority forcing another to clean up the pollution . |
| 10 | In the process of overtaking a lorry , a woman crashed into another lorry reversing out of a side turning . |
| 11 | Bill Brandt 's black and white photograph of a Coal-searcher going home to Jarrow ( 1937 ) in the North East , depicting an unemployed miner trudging along with a bicycle loaded with a scavenged coal , sums up , with dignity and subtlety , a black depression mood . |
| 12 | M. W. Eysenck ( 1976 , 1977 , 1982 ) , however , reviews evidence against this interpretation focusing particularly on a number of cases where arousal appears to improve immediate retention . |
| 13 | I have another important foreign call coming through in a few minutes , so , if you 'll excuse me , I 'll hand you over to the Chief Accountant now . " |
| 14 | Well if you see an old man sitting there with a a shining fronted cap on you 'll know that 's me Granddad , in a white beard . |
| 15 | The back garden ended at a short steep scarp falling away to a small stream crossed only by a footbridge . |
| 16 | Old : Take the steep path leading up through a re-plantation scheme until it is possible to exit from its left-hand top corner to gain steep scree . |
| 17 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 18 | He helped Joshua into the cart , sitting him on the floor again but this time leaning up against a wing , and tucked the rug under his legs . |
| 19 | Again Kjell-Arne went outside , this time checking everywhere for a dog off its chain or a stray . |
| 20 | AT THE first bend in the narrow lane from Guestwick to Corpusty there are the vestiges of an old carriageway turning off into a field in a south-westerly direction . |
| 21 | She had a vague impression of a small room , of stone walls and light from a narrow window falling on to a table . |
| 22 | Sarah touched the dark hair springing up in a quiff . |
| 23 | In an action under the law of England and Wales or the law of Northern Ireland for damages for personal injuries ( including any such action arising out of a contract ) any saving to the injured person which is attributable to his maintenance wholly or partly at public expense in a hospital , nursing home or other institution shall be set off against any income lost by him as a result of his injuries . |
| 24 | Mihir , a 28-year-old Bangladeshi working illegally on a long-expired tourist visa , is paid 150,000 yen ( £650 ) a month at a manual job in a car parts factory north of Tokyo . |
| 25 | And there was a third T-shirt , which featured a black bloke clutching a basketball , with his 12-inch , semi-erect dick hanging down like a Nigerian salami . |
| 26 | They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction . |
| 27 | Below : A conference of the Women 's Liberal Federation setting out for a tour of Blackpool and St. Annes in May 1926 , using six toastrack trams , here drawn up on both tracks at North Pier . |
| 28 | There probably had n't been much dust lying around in a palace . |
| 29 | It is to set up an ancillary file with the records in sequential key order and each record consisting only of a count field . |
| 30 | Here he stuck out his chest and strutted about like a professional walker setting out on a long distance race . |