Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tisseran itself is now in the Bate Collection ( illus.4 ) : its painted and gilded case reminding us of the harpsichord the princess is playing in The music party . |
| 2 | A broad-beamed fellow like myself should have no difficulty careering it across the ironing board , although a woman or even a bachelor-wimp might sooner resort to an old-fashioned metal iron than attempt to put this monster through its paces . |
| 3 | Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings . |
| 4 | He picked up an old ornament : a serpent winding itself around a globe ; an appropriate image . |
| 5 | M.Ps have no privilege protecting them against an arrest on criminal charges but they are protected against arrest in connection with a civil matter while parliament is in session and for 40 days before and after . |
| 6 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 7 | Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand . |
| 8 | We expected handshakes all round , the departure of the PM to affairs of state , and an aide leading us to an ante-room for ginger snaps and coffee . |
| 9 | She was not so lucky with Benton , who sprang up and crashed into her , his arms locking around her waist , their combined momentum slamming them against the door . |
| 10 | Now suppose that the electron 's mass is increased 207 times ( so that it is like a muon ) while it remains subject to the same attractive force holding it around the proton . |
| 11 | She could feel his hot weight pinning her against the mattress , her legs helplessly kicking out as he began remorselessly to stroke her silken side , bringing his hand slowly and repeatedly from shoulder to hip . |
| 12 | As we approached we could hear the real Chairman of the Ontario Jockey Club welcoming everyone to the adventure and we could see Zak and the other actors waiting for him to finish so that they could get on with the mystery . |
| 13 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 14 | he had immediately checked into the Shelbourne , one of Dublin 's premier hotels , and spent the next hour soaking himself in a bath , washing away the grime of the rough sea-crossing . |
| 15 | The decline in rough grassland/moor may reflect its ‘ better ’ agricultural management bringing it into the category of permanent grassland instead . |
| 16 | A 6′ 4″ natural athlete from Eastbourne who spent the winter slumming it as a ski-guide on the slopes of Meribel , he completed the over when Jones limped out of Lancashire 's victory quest at Hove , then proceeded to halt the charge with a career-best 5 for 54 . |
| 17 | At one point they fell out and Schine chased Cohn through a hotel lobby swatting him over the head with a rolled-up magazine , to the delight of the large Press corps , who wrote stories headlined after the dialogue of the famous duo , ‘ Positively , Mr Cohn ! ’ and ‘ Absolutely , Mr Schine ! ’ |
| 18 | All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered , the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm interested in knowing more about you , ’ he said musingly , leaning back in his chair , the heavy-lidded grey gaze unsettling her to a degree she found hard to accept . |
| 20 | I know it 's silly but I find it hard to take them seriously and really concentrate and not be distracted by the local cat cleaning himself on a window ledge or some such thing . |
| 21 | Lying on a pallet in the downstairs chamber , the deceased woman laid out upstairs , the only sounds came from the cat cleaning itself by the hearth and an owl hooting raucously outside . |
| 22 | If that individual is not its mother but a human foster parent feeding it from a bottle , the lamb imprints on whoever held the bottle . |
| 23 | He deliberately kept the Lamonts in a separate compartment , their home providing him with a place to refuel in company he enjoyed and in countryside he loved . |
| 24 | So the real question facing us at the moment is not whether there should be a relationship , or whether there should be a link but in what way we should modernize it and arrange it today . |
| 25 | On the marker posts that you see , the next time you , you travel past them at ninety miles an hour if you get time to see them , there is actually , a picture of the telephone headset and a number under that headset there will be an arrow pointing you in the direction of the nearest emergency telephone . |
| 26 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 27 | A further door led off to the right , with a tiled passage taking her to the bathroom , and another large square room at the end , which was probably the dining-room . |
| 28 | He picked the largest , his spear taking it through the gut . |
| 29 | ‘ I want a clean up , not a snakesiren making it with a mongoose on my face . ’ |
| 30 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |