Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 2 | You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes . |
| 3 | The council 's ruling Labour group split on the issue , after leading opponents of the scheme claimed it would increase violence with drinkers spilling on to the streets at exactly the same time . |
| 4 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 5 | Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief . |
| 6 | He left the car again , and saw something else on the other side of it — a pair of legs jutting out from the bushes nearby . |
| 7 | The place was n't huge by country house standards — two storeys , twenty-something rooms — but its main entrance was a covered carriage porch with stone pillars and broad steps leading up to the doors . |
| 8 | It has a flight of steps leading down into the depths , and its main feature is a high waterfall that emerges from behind a wedged boulder known as Mohammed 's Coffin . |
| 9 | There was a glimpse of dark , pain-filled eyes peering out from the folds of the red blankets . |
| 10 | old said I do n't want any of the lads going in with the girls |
| 11 | To film arctic foxes facing up to the rigours of approaching winter . |
| 12 | A mosaic of a tree stretched along the whole centre aisle , the branches spreading out before the altars , the birds and beasts of Ireland standing between the leaves . |
| 13 | When Rosalind and Philip first moved in , it was in a pretty parlous condition , with , amongst other nightmares , an elder tree with its roots in the great hall and its branches spreading in through the windows . |
| 14 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
| 15 | The sight of the European Community 's civilised , like-minded nations bickering on about the pros and cons of more joint government , with ethnic war on their doorstep and a great deal to achieve across a newly opened continent , would seem absurd to any visiting Gulliver . |
| 16 | They took breath for a few moments before they emerged , after the third volley , to finish what they had begun , the Welsh swordsmen boiling out of the bushes joyously on their heels . |
| 17 | The clearest example of considerations which affect authoritative decisions but which do not apply to individuals acting on their own are considerations arising out of the needs and limitations of bureaucracies . |
| 18 | Glossy blue-black , heavily built , they twisted and turned in unison , deep croaks echoing back from the walls of the ravine . |
| 19 | There was deposition in large alluvial fans stretching out from the mountains in the south and the north-east into the flat plain . |
| 20 | An old boat lay half-submerged against the bank with reeds pushing up through the holes in its hull . |
| 21 | And did you ever hear of tensions building up amongst the men ? |
| 22 | Oh yes very often tensions building up among the men . |
| 23 | Next we searched the entire barn for anything sharp — nails sticking out of the walls , for example — that might cut or harm them . |
| 24 | I hope I never go deaf and have to wear a hearing-aid ; it will sound like the Atlantic rollers crashing up over the rocks at Land 's End . |
| 25 | Some children spotted the feet sticking out of the bushes by the roadside . |
| 26 | At the top of the spiral staircases are two wooden trapdoors leading on to the battlements . |
| 27 | ‘ I used to love watching Lord Delamere 's chaps going out with the cattle carrying umbrellas . |
| 28 | Between the ages of 25 and 30 most of us start to notice lines radiating out from the corners of our eyes . |
| 29 | She could see the dark gold lashes feathering his broad cheekbones , and the tiny lines radiating out from the corners of his eyes . |
| 30 | Blind grain sites showing up on the ears of some cereal crops could trim yields and perhaps downgrade stands intended for seed . |