Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Darrel McHargue would have won on Commanche Run is irrelevant , for this was vintage Lester Piggott — the jockey completely at one with his horse , pushing it just enough to achieve maximum effort but always keeping it balanced , willing and galloping straight for the line . |
| 2 | The number of items prescribed differed across the age bands ( table I ) with a small peak in patients under 5 years old and rising rapidly from the 5–16 to 75–84 age groups . |
| 3 | The 1922 Committee of backbench MPs is led by Cranley Onslow , stocky , ginger-haired and looking unaccountably like a surveyor who has just arrived to advise on suspected dry rot in the roof . |
| 4 | While Fiona was still on her way the medics stuffed Harry full of antibiotics and other palliatives and put stitches where they were needed , and by the time she 'd wept briefly in my arms he was warm and responding nicely in a recovery room somewhere . |
| 5 | Ah want that riggin' fixed and workin' inside of a week . ’ |
| 6 | All the dry grass behind the dump of bushes was ablaze and spreading rapidly towards the adjoining hayfield , eating up trails of loose hay on the way . |
| 7 | I 'm missing you all very much and looking forward to a time of sharing and renewal with you in April . |
| 8 | After all , he was the chief scientist on board the boat , it was his $250,000 paying for this month-long expedition ( this research vessel cost $7000 a day to run ) , and he was getting a little nervous out there , all by himself , getting colder by the second and drifting away on a little piece of ice . |
| 9 | One day the whole population would be perfect and shining again under the silver dewfall . |
| 10 | The cloud was thick and low and moving slowly on a damp , chilling wind , a lidding expanse hiding the sky and the snow on the distant hills . |
| 11 | He half turned his head and addressed the slumped figure in the back , directly behind him now , the menacing gun held low and pointing straight through the upholstery at the middle of his back . |
| 12 | Charlton knows Ireland can afford one slip-up , but his side has every chance of upsetting the rhythm of the Spanish and coming away with a result . |
| 13 | There 's no way that a farrier can shoe a horse that is so angry or frightened that it is rearing and leaping all over the place . |
| 14 | Bake for 1¼ hrs until firm and shrinking away from the sides of the tin . |
| 15 | Both handled conditions well , Andrew 's Minstrel pulling eight lengths clear of Thuhool and Stirrup Cup making all and jumping well for a 20 lengths win over market rival Kingfisher Bay . |
| 16 | Our old friend , The Third Way , is alive and well and mingling happily with the centre-left of German politics . |
| 17 | You can not have them arriving late and leaving early like the fashionable New York ladies of the 1890s . |
| 18 | Still , I 'm glad I stole Friday and Saturday to see the boys , and after a couple of hours ' sleep , I awoke refreshed and looking forward to the arrival of David Grindrod for lunch . |
| 19 | ‘ Ka-prap ! ’ went Kaptan , imitating the snarl of the M-16 and spinning sideways to the carpet . |
| 20 | In less than two hours he could be free , safe and looking forward to a future . |
| 21 | She remembered the tea-time throng before the war , when she was ten and working illegally in the Biscuit Factory near Bridgeton . |
| 22 | Indoors she wore a long black pinafore-like garment , sleeveless and reaching almost to the ground , which she had made from a cotton material used later during the war for black-out curtains and called , I think , sateen . |
| 23 | I think that the idea of erm you know , rushing in to a disaster , taking the aeroplane out , and , and seeing this enormous distress around one and sitting there with a notebook and a pencil is , is unacceptable and indeed we do n't do that at all . |
| 24 | The yellowish horns are of medium length , growing outwards and then curving slightly forwards in the bull , and finer and well spread in the cow , whose horns grow in various directions but preferably level and turning upwards at the tips , which are black . |
| 25 | He had rented the flat through an agency and had no idea who owned it , only that he was male and single and working abroad for a year . |
| 26 | Trains will have a power car at both ends , each capable of starting the train on a maximum gradient of 1 in 40 and accelerating rapidly to a maximum operating speed of 300kph . |
| 27 | ‘ You must have rennet spilling out of your ears , ’ Algy said to Louise , who by now was beyond taking pleasure in such moves of friendliness and simply handed round the dish with her left hand behind her back as she had been taught , feeling mutinous and thinking proudly of a homeland where not junket but fondue was the commonplace . |
| 28 | The flags of all European nations were standing horizontal and cracking ominously above the hard and Lerissa , a handsome 52ft ( 15m ) classic sloop , was pitching wildly in the harbour mouth as other boats strained at their anchors . |
| 29 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 30 | As Gloucester used to be a major droving centre , there was inevitably much crossing with various Welsh types and the Gloucester 's slender , white , dark-tipped horns , spreading quite wide and tilting upwards at the tip , are often similar in style to those of the Welsh , though more refined and a little shorter . |