Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tsu Ma went across and stood there , one foot resting lightly on the tiled lip of the well as he looked back across the valley towards the south . |
| 2 | I was lying in the middle of a green lane clutching a bunch of dandelions , my fingers gummy with the pungent milk oozing out of the squashed stems . |
| 3 | Although Wilson 's point is a good one , there is a considerable momentum building up within the digital multimedia industry and even if reluctance to reinvest in new kit slows the pace of change , it is unlikely to deflect the overwhelming trend . |
| 4 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 5 | The force of this moral authority becomes clearer when discussions within the Association touching specifically upon the pedagogic uses of literature and indeed language are considered . |
| 6 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 7 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 8 | Kosi left her plastic beaker of tea steaming gently on the nearest flat surface while she and Lars headed for the centre of the room . |
| 9 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 10 | Verb-phrase anaphora occurs when a verb-phrase depends for its interpretation on another verb-phrase occurring earlier in the spoken or written discourse . |
| 11 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 12 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 13 | Comparing the ‘ Charlie Parker Story ’ directly with Vogue 's 14-track ‘ Original Bird ’ release ( and in effect listening critically for the first time ) , I found the Denon ‘ sound recovery ’ system somewhat inconsistent in places . |
| 14 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 15 | That has opened new wounds in relationships between the two sides , barely on speaking terms after bad blood dating back to the infamous Shakoor Rana-Mike Gatting bust-up . |
| 16 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the case of the UK 's crossroads , for example , that approach pays scant attention to the break-up of the UK 's position at the centre of the Sterling Area and Commonwealth trade in the 1970s , or to the responsibility of unions , management , the financial system and the state for manufacturing industry 's poor productivity growth and hence declining international competitiveness during the long boom leading up to the structural changes of the 1970s/1980s period . |
| 19 | They stared at the flat blade of rock jutting out of the turf-clad flank of the hill . |
| 20 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 21 | Any rock lying around on the frozen continent stands a good chance of being a meteorite as — the occasional ice-piercing mountain aside — there is nowhere else to come from but the heavens . |
| 22 | THE England ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand could prove to be a mixed blessing thanks to an insufficiently competitive provincial itinerary leading up to the two ‘ tests ’ against a New Zealand XV at the end of the tour . |
| 23 | They looked large against the light pouring down over the flat land . |
| 24 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |
| 25 | They closed on the knife blade , twisted it out of the man 's hand , and then he was using the whole false arm as a metal club slamming down on the upraised arms , jabbing for the face , forcing the man back step by step until the edge of the track was only one more step away . |
| 26 | Except for the ansaphone buzzing , and the vibration on the floor of his assailant moving rapidly towards the french windows , to make good an escape down the back way . |
| 27 | Replaying the sequence he realized that Ivy had braked hard , the car swerving slightly on the greasy surface , then backed up . |
| 28 | THIS WEEK 's attempt to divert the flow of lava gushing out of the erupting Mount Etna in Sicily could be an expensive failure — because a British team of vulcanologists taking essential measurements has had to return home after its money ran out . |
| 29 | Sure enough , a sparkling line of firelight was twitching its way up the hill , the red gleam of flame shifting constantly in the slight breeze , and disappearing now and again as the marchers tracked up or down slopes in the road . |
| 30 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |