Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly . |
| 2 | Erm , I had a bit difficulty coming up with a case , actually , erm , this |
| 3 | At last she came across a white man , nonchalantly lighting his cigarette from a twelve-inch flame shooting out of a gas jet , who was prepared to answer her question . |
| 4 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 5 | Police even stopped one souvenir hunter cycling off with the ship 's compass tucked under his arm . |
| 6 | In actual fact the er farmer put the planning application in to hold this market every week really refused it outright saying it 's a very sensitive area of Green belt and we did n't want two hundred er stalls there every Sunday on the car park coming out of the road and everything else . |
| 7 | Introduced last summer to bring stock car racing back to a more affordable level , their early outings showed promise , with the Christmas meeting at Foxhall producing 30 starters and some excellent racing . |
| 8 | It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade . |
| 9 | We had a business man on Question Time who was saying that five hundred million pound fraud going on in the benefits , right ? |
| 10 | Surely not all that protein synthesis going on in the absence of the inhibitor could be about learning and memory ; some other fundamental aspects of behaviour must be affected ? |
| 11 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 12 | It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east . |
| 13 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 14 | He drifted beyond a coral head jutting out from the gap 's wall and took six deep breaths to hyperventilate his lungs before piking . |
| 15 | And Super Kick off , the best game going out er , the best football game going out on the all computers ! |
| 16 | ‘ Going about , ’ he shouted and watched in amazement the crazed proficiency of the little cocaine addict leaping back into the cockpit to winch the genoa sheet in . |
| 17 | A curious old lady , seeing the horse collar hanging up in an unusual position , exclaimed peevishly : ‘ What 's this for ? |
| 18 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 19 | On 24 November , the Ministry presented designs by Prado architect Francisco Rodriquez Partearroyo which detailed three new underground floors and an entrance ramp leading in to the Prado 's ground level . |
| 20 | To Harry 's left , the lane petered out in a gravel track curving round past the garden hedge to serve the jetty . |
| 21 | Thus the process of contract formation arising out of the exchange of documents containing or referring to standard terms creates considerable problems when one tries to fit it into the framework of offer and acceptance . |
| 22 | In the example given , the College 's close relationship with the catering industry , covering conventional day-release , specialist courses and demonstrations , and extensive work experience dating back to the 1960s had given the mutual confidence and understanding which made an unconventional pattern worth trying . |
| 23 | Lawyers acting for the 31 year-old double terror victim have recently entered into negotiations with Northern Ireland Office lawyers to settle a compensation case arising out of the first attack on him in which he lost a leg and suffered serious damage to an arm . |
| 24 | As the floor levelled off the lights flickered and came up , the engine noise settling down to a steady background roar . |
| 25 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
| 26 | Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard . |
| 27 | Is that the north pole and the south pole sticking out of the earth ? |
| 28 | Also carefully lag any overflow pipes , so that should there be a ball valve failure there is no risk of an ice blockage building up in the overflow . |
| 29 | We were sitting in the window embrasure looking out over the laurustines , cupressus and other seemingly indestructible plants . |
| 30 | Visitors can see an extensive collection of textile machinery dating back to the 18th century along with an exhibition tracing the development of Wales ' woollen industry from the Middle Ages . |