Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 2 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 3 | He walked all over Lyne picking up blocks of red sandstone ashlar and pointing out the old grooves and cramp-holes . |
| 4 | No more being shy and going up the high one . |
| 5 | She wandered back to the dressing-table and stood fiddling and picking over every little object on it . |
| 6 | Bouncing and bucking down the rough , uneven scrubland of the sloping ground beyond , it finally fetched up hard when it smashed head-on into a rocky outcrop . |
| 7 | ‘ The beautiful torment of denial , of postponing the inevitable and building up a sweet need that improves every second of surrender . |
| 8 | She was pretty and crisply dark , her hair short and curling round a pointed face . |
| 9 | We swung into a drive , knocking a mesh gate askew and waking up a snoring security guard . |
| 10 | Agreements or understandings could cover price-fixing and/or sharing out the available work without resorting to competition ( which would have resulted in lower prices ) . |
| 11 | And the other one which is er Mr and that er has details of various convictions with er picture of his as a rather younger man er , various offences going back to nineteen seventy five and occupying quite a long space but there . |
| 12 | You read an article about the police barging into a flat in the middle of the night for no apparent reason , stripping everyone naked and beating up an old lady , and you have to scrutinise the text for clues . |
| 13 | He may have been in his forties and driving either a grey , silver or light metallic-coloured car . |