Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the long curling hair hanging lankly over the driver 's neck , Howard has noticed , is a tumour the size of a sparrow 's egg . |
| 2 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 3 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 4 | Her heart tumbling about like a circus clown , and suddenly breathless , she said , ‘ I thought you were out . ’ |
| 5 | A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush . |
| 6 | My eyes shut , I could see that napkin fluttering down through the mushroom cloud . |
| 7 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 8 | There was a guitar on the table , and a frilled black silk shirt hanging up behind the door . |
| 9 | We noted that controlling for sex would have reduced the size of the original effect , because there would have been a spurious component stemming purely from the fact that more women are in low status jobs and more women go absent . |
| 10 | Place the top over a jam jar of water , with the base resting just under the water . |
| 11 | A covenant in a lease is , prima , a contract binding only on the lessor and lessee . |
| 12 | Not dressed in travel-stained wool and dusty chainmail with his sword hilt gleaming harshly in the sunshine . |
| 13 | You can now stand the garter bar upright in the needle groove of your ribber , with the knitting hanging down between the ribber and the knitter . |
| 14 | To achieve crosswind landing exactly on the spot without using the engine and in a strange machine offers a strong challenge even to the most experienced pilot . |
| 15 | Slowly , Fand leaned her forehead on the spear-shaft , fair hair raying out in the water . |
| 16 | In contrast walking slowly into a room may indicate reticence or apprehension . |
| 17 | He was close , his powerful , bare chest pressing up against the towelling of her robe ; she could almost feel the anger pumping around his body . |
| 18 | It was like the scene where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid start to rob yet another ‘ easy ’ train only to find an armed and mounted posse leaping out of a carriage . |
| 19 | Imagine , in some generation in the past , that a species contains N individuals , and hence 2 N copies of some particular gene , say the gene for cytochrome C. Let the total mutation rate per gene be m ( that is , the chance of a mutation of some kind occurring somewhere in the gene in a given sperm or egg ) . |
| 20 | A roadside gate opposite admits to a field sloping down to the river ( no path ; no right of way so seek permission to visit ) where , in a wild and impressive setting , the Dee , here flowing in a deep ravine , leaps in a waterfall into a deep pool beneath a high canopy of trees . |
| 21 | There is a bench-lined sanctuary opening out of the west side of the Central Court , but without a throne and without an antechamber or en suite lustral basin . |
| 22 | Her eye lit on the white travelling case bobbing gently under the net . |
| 23 | If your bitch is not neutered , you should be aware of the possibility of this behavioural change occurring soon after the time when she would normally have given birth , just over two months after her last heat . |
| 24 | After that , since she now spent as much time as possible on deck keeping out of the way of her cousins , with whom she felt a constraint , Ruth saw the woman for several days in a row . |
| 25 | She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back . |
| 26 | It was cold , too , an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall . |
| 27 | He could hear a car drawing up on the drive outside . |
| 28 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 29 | It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house . |
| 30 | And indeed , watched curiously by a solitary policeman below , he passes right through a library ( ** ) by Hawksmoor , and emerges on the other side coughing slightly from the dust in the books . |