Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So , for the Leningrad group Zoo , ‘ Subterranean Homesick Blues ’ became ‘ Suburb Blues ’ and the lyrics ‘ Johnny 's in the basement mixing up the medicine I 'm on the pavement thinking 'bout the government ’ became ‘ I 'm sitting in the toilet and reading Rolling Stone/Venichka is in the kitchen pouring samogon ’ ( home-made vodka ) . |
| 2 | She stood at the back of the dingy room , the child close by her side , and she listened to the clerk calling out the offences — soliciting was a common phrase , but once he said ‘ Procuring of men ’ — and she noticed that the Justice hardly raised his head : ‘ One pound or one month . |
| 3 | ‘ To this end we are pursuing NAMAS accreditation with all due speed and determination and expect to have the certificate hanging on the way by August 1993 . ’ |
| 4 | Suddenly the memory of the négligé hanging on the door in Luke 's house and Elise 's painting in the corridor outside his room struck a chill . |
| 5 | " We waded waist-deep through rivers into the forest , where magnificent trees towered above us , the canopy blocking out the sun . |
| 6 | He waited , the hair crisping up the back of his head . |
| 7 | I crawled over the grass and sat with my back against the farmhouse and stared at the blood pouring down the front of my battledress . |
| 8 | Share options are more attractive than outright share purchases because there is no risk of a loss being made by the employee taking up the option if share prices fall . |
| 9 | Jack saw the ambulance tearing down the factory service road , siren screaming , lights blazing . |
| 10 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 11 | The erotic implications of the subject , the motif of the figure holding back the curtain and the very prominent position of the still lifes , call to mind such works by Cézanne as l'Eternel Féminin , the various Temptations of St. Anthony and the Après-Midi à Naples . |
| 12 | Carolyn was sitting in the dark looking out the window . |
| 13 | They heard and then stopped heading the wind breathing in the trees overhead and the stream rustling in the valley . |
| 14 | He 's just adjusting his outfit as he 's in the car driving up the Tadcaster road and he looks with horror . |
| 15 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 16 | From the top drawer of her chest-of-drawers she took a pad and went to fetch her biro from the handbag hanging on the back of the door . |
| 17 | In Attorney General v Squire , it was held that obnoxious odours from pigs kept by the defendants , and arising from the number of animals , the place in which they were kept , and the food with which they were fed , were such as to create a public nuisance , and in Attorney General v Cole and Son noxious gases created by the defendant carrying on the trade of fat-melter were also held to be a public nuisance despite the fact that the defendant had carried on his trade , in a proper manner and in the same way for 30 years . |
| 18 | The Statute Setting up the State Asset Agency |
| 19 | The poet breaking down the barricades Radio . |
| 20 | Morning light streamed through the window searching out the shabbiness and the dust , the peeling walls and cobwebbed corners . |
| 21 | But it was another slender figure , a woman , shimmying up on to the port wing , from there on to the scorching hull , running along the curve in great , light strides and flinging her arm out in front of her , pointing with her index and little fingers at the mob pulling down the man . |
| 22 | The row could end with the council taking over the running of the service . |
| 23 | The trustee must send a report to every member of the committee setting out the position generally regarding the progress of his administration . |
| 24 | Xanthe looked out of the taxi windows at the throng swinging down the pavement , the broad plane leaves shifting and the jackets still unfastened , panels loose , in these first mild days of autumn . |
| 25 | The circular setting out the notice of meeting must set out clearly the effect of the proposed purchases on conversion or subscription rights in terms of attributable assets and earnings ( para 30.4 ) . |
| 26 | He doubted if these boys had been playing soccer — Hurstdown 's sporting young gentlemen would surely scorn such a plebeian game — and , sure enough , the boy bringing up the rear , older and taller than the rest and evidently in charge , was clutching a rugby ball to his chest . |
| 27 | If the abolition of private property still leaves the proletariat carrying out the orders of management , it remains an exploited class . |
| 28 | The soft , tight band strapped around her arm was nevertheless a comfort , as the pointer pushing up the dial , achieving a number , was a comfort , too , for now something was being done , someone would give her treatment to ward off the attacks of death . |
| 29 | In the late afternoon , with the red sun setting and the dust from the caravans crossing the plain hanging on the air , the whole edifice looked like a monolith rising out of the depths of a brooding red sea . |
| 30 | ‘ For Christ 's sake , Pat , not the big fat rabbit that was in the hutch hanging on the wall at the back of the house ? ’ |