Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked down at Tom 's heavy brown ankle boots , his thick navy overcoat and the green corduroy cap with the tufts of white hair sticking out at either side . |
| 2 | Just a tall , thin , cross man with a loud voice , pale , staring , pop-eyes , and tufts of spiky hair sticking out from each nostril . |
| 3 | Brad disappears to change clothes , and , when he returns , a grey T-shirt hanging out over green satin pyjama bottoms ‘ for maximum comfort ’ , offers me a cup of coffee . |
| 4 | This structure was only the remains of a bridge , and necessitated a crossing hanging on to one piece of rusty wire while balancing on another single line swinging perilously below . |
| 5 | Older children might prefer the pirate 's treasure chest brimming over with stolen loot , or the sophisticated speed cruiser and space rocket . |
| 6 | He kept his eyes fixed on the crest of the hill over which she would appear freewheeling down on her bicycle , black hair streaming and her long skirt ballooning out on either side like a bat 's wings . |
| 7 | She was a fairy who married a mortal to gain a soul , and made a pact that he would never spy on her on Saturdays , and for years he never did , and they had six sons , all with strange defects — odd ears , giant tusks , a catshead growing out of one cheek , three eyes , that sort of thing . |
| 8 | A TV commentator told viewers during the final morning 's play : ‘ We have seen plenty of seam lifting going on in this match . ’ |
| 9 | The first fruits of their mental endeavour are a sobering awareness of the likely complexities of the post-war Middle East and an unease about the meagre quantity of strategic thinking going on in other European and Arab capitals . |
| 10 | I think there 's a day of action coming up on this sort of D I Y stuff . |
| 11 | He should be working , she thought , her mind taking off down another route . |
| 12 | She swallowed carefully , her mind skittering back to that day at the office when Rebecca had returned unexpectedly and disturbed them . |
| 13 | He saw Kimberley and Killion curling in from either side , and wondered that they were both intact . |
| 14 | The stereo cassette is an essential tool , with Queen blasting out at full volume while she produces her fine work . |
| 15 | When they get to Italy the teacher decides it 's all a bit cosy : there 's a lot of good work going on in other curriculum areas , and the children are enjoying it , but where 's the drama ? ! |
| 16 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 17 | As a boy growing up in Orange County , California , Steve Martin 's life of showbusiness began with Disneyland . |
| 18 | who have led the field in running schemes of financial devolution , have been an important factor in the decision-making leading up to statutory introduction of Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) . |
| 19 | Did her mother guess there was a battle going on in this house ; in fact , various battles ? |
| 20 | The pavement meetings of Hitler 's English disciples resembled more accurately a noisy Pimlico pub turning out at closing time . |
| 21 | bloke coming back in that car . |
| 22 | erm I have had to do in my work quite a lot of work coming up against that act , so to speak . |
| 23 | That 's the equivalent amount of time that is spent in the average household washing up in one year . |
| 24 | The truck climbed steeply , the sound of its engine echoing back from thick forest . |
| 25 | The internal combustion engine did not destroy an unchanging pattern of work stretching back into immemorial antiquity and neither is rapid technological change in agriculture a purely twentieth-century phenomenon . |
| 26 | That is , there was work going on everywhere , but the noise of it was dispersed in the mild cloudy air , no longer staring blue , with the brassy sun striking down on dry earth . |
| 27 | Then you ring Dial-A-Ticket ( 0532–710710 ) which is generally engaged , so you re-dial at frequent intervals till you get through to a recorded ticket office girl blotering on about similar information . |
| 28 | that we need some extra cooking going on in this house . |
| 29 | The outcomes may range from complete correction to the professional satisfaction of the engineer , to an adjustment to the areas of responsibility between the parties which may result , in extreme cases , in the engineer contracting out of further responsibility or abandoning his or her engagement . |
| 30 | Except that there was a microscope-like tube sticking out of one side . |