Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 2 | There the cries of the watersellers and the buzz of taxis came wafting on the wind , strident and echoing across the dirty water . |
| 3 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 4 | But somehow they are wrong , for at every stage of this incredible race — at every stage , that is , bar the one that matters , at the winning post — the only rightful winner had to be Crisp , whose astonishing display of galloping and jumping in the toughest race in the calendar must , were there any justice in the world , have been blessed with success . |
| 5 | The columns were part of an octastyle portico , each 48 feet high and standing on a 22 feet podium . |
| 6 | Then , larger than life , so vivid she might almost have reached out and touched herself , there she was , transformed , hardly recognizable : teeth bared in a grin of manic glee , her eyes white-hot and blazing like a berserk android in a film she had seen once . |
| 7 | Determined , eager , brave and lusting for the real thing , |
| 8 | It is hard to escape the implication that a major source of this taboo is the sense that the priest kneeling down and washing women 's ‘ naked ’ feet would be somehow both sexual and polluting to the sacred . |
| 9 | Jesus is seen as British and belonging to the British . |
| 10 | Thus , writing C for the capacitance of C 1 in parallel with C 2 and eliminating between the two equations or where , and In terms of partial fractions it is convenient to express the Laplace transform of I 2 as so that taking the inverse Laplace transformation where Note that and are both positive and real since and The latter result follows because From equation ( 11.51 ) the time dependence of the output voltage is given by But when assuming capacitor C 2 is uncharged initially . |
| 11 | The sea shimmering and heaving beneath the brisk breeze seemed ignorant of the loss in her life . |
| 12 | Such a score may look very clever and knowing to the uninitiated , but the result in performance is a jumble of sound and a blurring of the essential outlines . |
| 13 | They left within two days of his release , leaving me tired , dazed , relieved and waiting for the Second Son to come ‘ home ’ for yet another week-end . |
| 14 | They were waiting to pounce , I know it ; that 's how they live ; they hang about in the dark , watching ( such a creature will see in the dark , never fear ) and listening and feeling for the minuscule rise in temperature and small vibrations which signal a passing vascular system , then they hop on board and they … suck . |
| 15 | Immortality is for Tithonus a punishment , it is cold and silent whereas death is warm and inviting for the old man . |
| 16 | Snogging tackle for stonking wet smackers , warm and reassuring like a comfy settee . |
| 17 | Snogging tackle for stonking wet smackers , warm and reassuring like a comfy settee . |
| 18 | The World Bank has too many people costing too much and working in the wrong place . |
| 19 | They liked watching her play out a Cinderella fantasy , wearing gold lamé and riding in a gold-plated carriage to a ball from which she did not return until well after midnight . |
| 20 | Suffocating and smothering in the gelatinous mucous … |
| 21 | Thus in 1981–86 the South gained 580 000 people , twice the increase recorded in 1976–81 , while the rest of Britain saw its population fall by almost 200 000 , an increase in the rate of loss compared to 1976–81 and moving against the national trend ( table 8.2 ) . |
| 22 | The computer operator in the station made another call to the ambulance service telling them that the situation was very serious and asking for the estimated time of arrival of the ambulance . |
| 23 | The British pairing of Colette Hall and local girl Sarah Loosemore was unable to win a set in the doubles against Lisa Albano and Emmons , despite leading 5–4 and serving in the second . |
| 24 | Cornucopia : rabbits , hunched and private , loping slowly about the lawn in the moonlight ; a green frog , gleaming and sparkling in the dewy sunlit grass as it wiggled along some compelling migratory path ; squirrels — quick flashes of ginger and grey in the treetops , a sudden glimpse of bright beady eyes ; a mythical fox — dusky shadow and sinister snowprints . |
| 25 | There may be an alveolar closure immediately preceding and overlapping with a velar closure ; there may be simultaneous alveolar and velar closure , or a velar closure followed by slight contact but not closure in the alveolar region . |
| 26 | That 's a bit bland , is n't it ? ’ he challenged teasingly , his eyes appearing dark and glittering in the dim light of the candles , and his lashes impossibly long and thick . |
| 27 | Towering head and shoulders above the Customs officer , who stood aside to let him pass , the man strode in , his face as dark and threatening as an impending storm . |
| 28 | Theoretical studies in this sense might adopt an approach which utilises the findings from a variety of national contexts in order to produce generalisations that attempt ‘ to distinguish the invariant from the variant , the stable and continuing from the fluctuating and transitory ’ ( Schollhammer , 1973 , p. 24 ) . |
| 29 | I could hear the shotgun barking as I walked through the dim , dripping woods from the house , staying off the muddy path as much as possible and walking on the flattened , exhausted-looking grass at its side to keep my shoes from clogging up . |
| 30 | Swords were about thirty inches in length , the blade two-edged and tapering towards a diamond-shaped point . |