Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | times He 'll have good times Goin' oot on the randan But |
| 2 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 3 | There was a low-slung sofa with a faded loose cover ; a rocking-chair with canvas strips hanging out of the bottom ; and a broad oak table on metal castors . |
| 4 | The climbing was superb , with pitches of about Very Severe and many of the larger pebbles sticking out of the rock create great hand holds . |
| 5 | The surrounding countryside is windswept and rocky , moss-bedecked flints sticking out of the ground like primitive blades . |
| 6 | Recorded music has now become a separate expressive form , thanks to a range of studio technologies deriving fundamentally from the ability to edit and amalgamate sounds , made possible by the use of magnetic tape . |
| 7 | Do n't these people realise that dozens of reviewers are likely to spend several hours gazing blankly at the album sleeve as they try to come up with some natty simile to describe the musical contents therein ? |
| 8 | ‘ The beds are unmade and there are dirty knickers sticking out of the washing machine . |
| 9 | As they are about competence at work , they will include not only competences relating directly to the funeral service but also competences to do with working relationships or health and safety . |
| 10 | A statistically significant difference between the two methods was found in the total number of cells per crypt column , the crypts appearing longer in the PCNA assay ( Table I ) . |
| 11 | These punishments include having ‘ the throat cut across , the tongue torn out by the root ’ and being ‘ buried in the sand of the sea at low water … ’ — this explains why you tend to find heads sticking out of the beach who refuse to tell you that they 're up to . |
| 12 | My first real fear came only when I caught sight of Tandri 's face watching his five strongest crewmen hanging miserably to the mainstay of our rotten mast . |
| 13 | Agnes is losing patience and revenue , I 've practically got my legs sticking out of the Boomerang window , when there 's this heavy handslap on the roof of the car . |
| 14 | And when he come into the pub he hears the village lads singing along with the machine and he has a go himself and gets to talking with everyone . |
| 15 | We turned the light on The room was full of funny little animals whizzing all over the floor . |
| 16 | The kind of farcical spectacle pop has n't provided for a while , it had everything from Radio 1 getting in a tizzy about whether to ban it to TOTP carrying drug warnings , from ageing DJs singing along to the chorus to ageing rockers ( Francis Rossi of Status Quo ) crawling out of the woodwork to condemn it . |
| 17 | Lenin clearly accepted the need for administration and administrators , but by a democratically controlled set of routine offices rotating widely among the population rather than by a ‘ special stratum of the population ’ . |
| 18 | Many gardeners believe that an informal pool should be planted liberally , with waterlilies obscuring areas of the water surface , and reeds and rushes tumbling in from the garden . |
| 19 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 20 | There were also some strange red rods sticking up in the air from a holder . |
| 21 | That was to the tune of 38–3 in an Arms Park qualifying match and sent the Dragons tumbling out of the World Cup . |
| 22 | Depending on the evolution of management during the early 1990s , the confusions building up in the Training Authority 's role may need to be unravelled : either it is strengthened as an effective arm of central policy , or it is abolished so that the market — created by itself — can have freer play . |
| 23 | He stared up at the grey shapes bobbing out in the lagoon . |
| 24 | Looking past Adam , she saw Fand had stopped by another set of steps winding up into the rock . |
| 25 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 26 | In 1728 he established a farm at Kingsessing near Philadelphia , with six acres sloping away to the river in the south-west for a garden and where horticultural work in due course supplanted his pursuit of agriculture . |
| 27 | Lee saw Anthea 's eyes glittering blackly in the dancing candlelight , her chin drawn up in defiance or outrage . |
| 28 | ‘ My own death , my own , ’ she said quickly , eyes glittering now in the face of danger . |
| 29 | and there 's no facilities for kids , you know young kids ranging up to the age of er about sixteen seventeen . |
| 30 | According to the Yugoslav news agency , Tanjug , which still has one of the few non-Romanian journalists operating out of the country , the committee consists of lawyers , artists , and workers , but there is still no sign of a leader or a programme . |