Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 2 | She was not so lucky with Benton , who sprang up and crashed into her , his arms locking around her waist , their combined momentum slamming them against the door . |
| 3 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 4 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 5 | Bitter jealousy clawed at her , its sharp , painful talons filling her with an urge to scream with frustration and leaving her unable to think clearly . |
| 6 | The idle flap of the hand again , and round the next corner was another tank , then a third , hull down in the long grass like old dogs sunning themselves on a lazy day . |
| 7 | But all good things must come to an end ; back on the old routine mixing it with the Luftwaffe and all they could muster — and their reaction was tremendous . |
| 8 | I was awakened by a French Commando nudging me in the ribs with the toe of his boot . |
| 9 | But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system . |
| 10 | And then , one day , he came to her church and saw a great gold crown on one chair , billows of lace on another , " two beetle-like old ladies washing something in a pewter receptacle … " |
| 11 | On June 1 End Product Duty — the system that assesses the tax on beer as it is about to leave the brewery — replaced the old system assessing it at the beginning of fermentation . |
| 12 | Archie Hamilton , son of the third Baron Hamilton , who served as Parliamentary private secretary to Margaret Thatcher , is another example of the old tradition accommodating itself to the new spirit in the party . |
| 13 | If that individual is not its mother but a human foster parent feeding it from a bottle , the lamb imprints on whoever held the bottle . |
| 14 | The decline in rough grassland/moor may reflect its ‘ better ’ agricultural management bringing it into the category of permanent grassland instead . |
| 15 | He walked away , his long , easy stride taking him down the rough path to the lakeside . |
| 16 | Against her will her breasts swelled , hardened nipples forcing themselves against the cotton . |
| 17 | He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started . |
| 18 | From time to time , too , Jenna caught Alain 's dark eyes watching her through the driving mirror , and she was greatly relieved when they began to skirt Paris . |
| 19 | So the real question facing us at the moment is not whether there should be a relationship , or whether there should be a link but in what way we should modernize it and arrange it today . |
| 20 | She looked up and found Alain 's eyes on her , the dark gaze studying her through the driving mirror . |
| 21 | On his way home to Philibert Place one day , Marco wanders through an alley to waste ground where a hunchbacked boy pushing himself on a makeshift trolley is reading to his ragged companions from a newspaper — about Samavia . |
| 22 | Overweight male execs squeezing themselves behind the wheel of their Mercs ; they died of heart attacks . |
| 23 | Hip hop is the sound of threatened individuals asserting themselves against an uncaring world , taking on all comers and dispensing rough ( social ) justice or vengeance . |
| 24 | Mitzi was immediately conscious of pain and seconds later of the table upturning and its entire contents spreading themselves across the parquet . |
| 25 | She 's a strong and individual woman making it in a man 's world . |
| 26 | It looked like a drunken woman supporting herself against a building in the street . |
| 27 | What Mr Byrne 's unpleasant and excitable letter omitted , and what has been omitted from all subsequent debate , is that Mr Smith is unanswerably the only serious contender offering himself for the leadership . |
| 28 | Such incidents have now been reported sufficiently often in langurs and in lions , for example , to invalidate an early explanation attributing them to a high population density . |
| 29 | The clonk may be several things , but is most probably the ball joint on top the rear axle joining it to the rear ‘ A ’ frame . |
| 30 | So we might in fact simplify this by saying these are the enabling factors if you like , to leave home these are the motivating factors pulling us to a certain destination . |