Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But one , hung in the dining room , by a window looking out onto a most majestic ancient cedar tree , is strikingly different to all the others . |
| 3 | Let us consider the poverty of understanding which a child growing up in a religiously deprived background might have of one of the most evocative concepts in religious language , that of " heaven " . |
| 4 | In spite of this very real hazard , however , it is not uncommon to see quite experienced pilots leaving the ground with the elevator up , which results in the glider zooming up into a dangerously steep initial climb . |
| 5 | Sitting with the curtains open and the moon shining in on the barely begun big glass , he wrote , sitting keeping vigil with it all night after my walk with Paz , I was afraid . |
| 6 | The vertebrate fossils could thus be arranged in a historical sequence running through from the most ancient to the most recent geological periods . |
| 7 | Bill the dog , happy as ever to be out and about , was sniffing everything in sight , his tail whirling round in a completely circular motion like a helicopter rotor ; Eddie , however , having no tail to wag , was simply smiling , something he 's very good at . |
| 8 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |
| 9 | Enmity arising out of the often inordinate emphasis laid on sports by some teachers is quite commonplace amongst black kids ; much less so amongst whites . |
| 10 | Any new operation setting up in the architecturally acclaimed building would have to satisfy strict planning constraints , however . |
| 11 | And when you think of a man earning about at the most two pounds ten shillings a week , one and sixpence was quite a sizable amount out of it , but eventually he paid it all off . |
| 12 | Some obviously saw the events in Spain as fascism limbering up for an even greater conflict ; Spain was seen as an experimental laboratory for the arms , equipment and strategy of the fascist powers . |
| 13 | There 's a lot going on at a very fast speed . |
| 14 | In theory it should be an idyllic experience sleeping out on a still starlit night at the height of the summer . |
| 15 | Finally I reached Maymyo , to find my family camping out in a very small house , all three children down with scarlet fever . |
| 16 | He fell back at once and lay quietly on the damp earth staring up at the now empty wall as his blood soaked into and congealed darkly upon the white of his shirt . |