Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 4 | But referee Ed Morrison 's leniency led to bad blood spilling over in a six-man brawl as Richards looked for revenge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Michael Poynor , the adjudicator , commended director Harry Foy for an energetic production which kept the action moving along at a fast pace . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Russell turned to Dexter with a look of surprise and irritation , as if he were a complete stranger butting in on a private conversation — which indeed was just how the sergeant felt . |
| 11 | He went off to Barnard Castle up in the North somewhere to practice jumping out of a captive balloon , but he only had one go at |
| 12 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
| 13 | There are special provisions for actions for personal injuries ( see below ) and automatic directions do not apply to any of the actions listed below : ( 1 ) an action for the administration of the estate of a deceased person ; ( 2 ) an Admiralty action ; ( 3 ) proceedings which are referred for arbitration whether automatically or otherwise under Ord 19 ; ( 4 ) an action arising out of a regulated consumer credit agreement within the meaning of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ; ( 5 ) an action for the delivery of goods ; ( 6 ) an action for the recovery of income tax ; ( 7 ) interpleader proceedings or an action in which an application is made for relief by way of interpleader ; ( 8 ) an action of a kind mentioned in s 66(3) of the Act ( trial by jury ) ; ( 9 ) an action for the recovery of land ; ( 10 ) a partnership action ; ( 11 ) an action to which Ord 48A applies ( patent actions heard at Edmonton County Court ) ; ( 12 ) a contentious probate action ; ( 13 ) a rent action ; ( 14 ) an action to which Ord 5 , r 5 applies ( representative proceedings ) ; ( 15 ) an action to which Ord 9 , r 3(9) applies ( admission of part of plaintiff 's claim ) ; ( 16 ) an action on a third party notice or similar proceedings under Ord 12 ; ( 17 ) an action to which Ord 47 , r 3 applies ( actions in tort between husband and wife ) ; ( 18 ) " cases " transferred from High Court . |
| 14 | I was n't doing anything to speed up my role as a would-be doctor , so during my last year at Oxford , where I had planned to stay for three years before going to London for the real hard medical training , I arranged ( again through Dr Allott ) to spend my final long vac helping out as a general dogsbody at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London , where there was a special unit investigating Heine-Medin 's disease , the original name for polio , and — especially in the 1930s — doing research into the spinal aspects . |
| 15 | The visual inspiration for the book was the famous advert for Start-rite shoes , showing a small boy and girl walking off down a tree-lined avenue — an innocent image if ever there was one . |
| 16 | Within my own practice , I have never met a white child who says he or she is not white ; neither have I met a black child growing up in a black family saying that he or she is not black . |
| 17 | It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness . |
| 18 | One admires the results as one might standing back for a painted landscape , yet I miss the sensation of really ‘ being there ’ . |
| 19 | And though Flaubert aggressively excised from ‘ La Paysanne ’ Mme Colet 's line about the running smoke on the horizon , this does n't debar from his own countryside ( Part Three , chapter four ) ‘ the smoke of a railway engine stretching out in a horizontal line , like a gigantic ostrich feather whose tip kept blowing away . ’ |
| 20 | A punctured car wheel that someone was repairing lay in the centre of the floor with half its inner tube hanging out like a paunched rabbit . |
| 21 | Obviously , it is never easy to disentangle the process leading up to a particular credit transaction from the general buying process . |
| 22 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 23 | The trick is preventing the fire in the midriff breaking out into a public conflagration . |
| 24 | The probability of a particle getting out of a black hole of the mass of the sun would be very low because the particle would have to travel faster than light for several kilometers . |
| 25 | Isambard caught up both , and stood for a moment staring down with a formidable frown at Harry , who nursed his bruised wrists and glared back , expecting a blow and tensing every muscle to receive it without a tremor . |
| 26 | Young Ian Fletcher scored two touchdowns from full-back , and Dave McKee , Stuart Munro and Trevor Carmichael had the others , as West kept the scoreboard ticking over at a steady rate throughout the match . |
| 27 | Here he stuck out his chest and strutted about like a professional walker setting out on a long distance race . |
| 28 | And there was a third T-shirt , which featured a black bloke clutching a basketball , with his 12-inch , semi-erect dick hanging down like a Nigerian salami . |
| 29 | Ian said he spent the whole day walking around with a daft grin on his face . |
| 30 | CIARAN McVeigh from Parkside Snooker Club , Lurgan whitewashed Kieran Erwin 3–0 in the Drumgor Top 64 tournament last night opening up with a 122 break . |