Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 2 | his great jaw hanging down like an open hatch . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 7 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 12 | But referee Ed Morrison 's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Suddenly from below came the unmistakable sound of gunfire , the roar of a shotgun sounding along with a short sharp burst of a machine gun . |
| 18 | They stared at the flat blade of rock jutting out of the turf-clad flank of the hill . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They looked large against the light pouring down over the flat land . |
| 21 | We got talking and strolled along the riverside path too engrossed to hear the rumble of thunder getting nearer , or note the wind getting up to a blustery gale . |
| 22 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mr Michael Poynor , the adjudicator , commended director Harry Foy for an energetic production which kept the action moving along at a fast pace . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If the stimulus conditions start with a spectrally pure red light shining on to a red area the cell will fire even though the area looks like a washed-out red to a human observer . |
| 28 | Or was it the east wind blowing in through the open bell tower with renewed force ? |
| 29 | The damp wind blowing in at the open door made him shiver and he went to wake the others . |
| 30 | We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains . |